Roland, we get into all that in the new book. We don't use the phrase "Q angle," but we talk about knee injuries and the link to quad dominance.
Like the nutrition information, the issue of gender-specific muscle imbalance was new to me, and I was really surprised to see how big a problem it is. Without training designed to improve posterior-chain strength and correct the imbalance, sports and fitness activities actually exacerbate it as young female athletes mature.
With boys it's the opposite -- in a sport like soccer, the boys grow out of their natural quad dominance. Put another way, as all their lower-body muscles get stronger, their extensors grow proportionally stronger compared to their flexors.
So female athletes start out with a somewhat greater imbalance, and with maturity and conditioning the imbalance actually becomes more severe.
That's not the sole reason for the higher rate of knee injuries in girls and women, but the current thinking is that it accounts for a lot of them. Of course, the best solution is training to correct the imbalance, which is a big part of the focus in NROL for Women. When I did the workouts, I could feel them hitting my lower-body muscles in new ways.
As for the forum names, you're right, we should tweak that.
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