Timing Workouts Around Your Cycle | How Hormones Affect Exercise

Could your menstrual cycle affect your workout progress?

If you're like me you're probably saying YES!  When I have PMS, I feel crappy and my workouts suffer for sure! But, around here we dig little deeper.  I wanted to know what the science said, and if there was more to it than the obvious.  

We're always talking about do more, work harder, don't let up etc. in order to get results. But the truth is, that's not great advice.  Yes, consistency is KEY, but so is working with your own body, listening to what it needs, and not always forcing it to comply.  Learning how to work smarter not harder.  Taking your menstrual cycle into consideration when planning your training might be a super important way to honor what your body needs AND make faster progress toward your fitness goals.  

Unfortunately the science is a bit lacking when it comes to women and fitness.  Exercise science is still highly male dominated, and most exercise studies are done on healthy men.  Add to that inconsistency among women who menstruate AND women on hormonal birth control, in perimenopause, menopause and post menopause, and there's a TON variability in what any results a study might yield, and how they might apply to you personally. 

BUT we can make some generalities that can guide you, and help you make the right decisions for yourself.  In this episode I will:

 - give a quick overview of your cycle and the hormone fluctuations taking place

 - help you understand all the ways we know those hormone fluctuations can affect your workouts and recovery

 - give you a week by week schedule of how you could program your workouts to work WITH your cycle.

Bottom line: Tracking your menstrual cycle is a MUST, and using that knowledge to inform your workout schedule could be exactly what you're missing!  

XOXO

Tara

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