It includes two massages and three weightlifting sessions each week along with supplemental post-practice exercises for his ankles and feet.

"It's changed my life... It's completely changed my attitude to food," she said, adding that she also had felt motivated to go to the gym and take up weightlifting.

“Sets going to failure, with a long time under tension, is a very uncomfortable, unnecessarily painful workout,” Casey Johnston, author of the weightlifting newsletter “She’s a Beast,” said.

After a weightlifting session in the throes of the season, a teammate strolled past me in the locker room and, with the most malicious indifference, sneered, “Shut up, f****t.”

Sadie and Piper Hoodenpyle, students at Girls Academic Leadership Academy, added that phones can be beneficial for taking pictures of lecture slides, filming telenovelas in Spanish and checking their weightlifting form.