Question

Traditionally, experiments related to exercise metabolism used college age males as the research subjects. This trend is less today and females are also used. Some of the early studies showed that estrogen can lower muscle glycogen and blood glucose uptake. Progesterone on the other hand increases muscle glycogen utilization and has no effect upon blood glucose uptake. This could lead one to ask whether gender specific exercise programs and dietary manipulations are necessary. Decide if you are for against the necessity of gender specificity in training and diet. In detail defend your position.

(If I were to be defending the use of gender specific exercise programs and diet, how would I argue for it?)

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