Start building an intuition, based on a really good understanding of female physiology and psychology, and a really good understanding about your lived experience of the menstrual cycle, in the context of your body and your life. Then you have the exciting opportunity to subtly tweak and adjust things to capitalise or cope with where you are in your cycle.
Read MoreIt’s time we stopped making ‘being hormonal’ a female thing, and started accepting that the more we can tune into our hormones, and how they ebb and flow or even peak and plummet, the more we can tap in to when this is helpful for the things we want to do and achieve. And when it’s not, we can explore and find effective, natural strategies to help us work with our hormones rather than against them.
Read MoreWith a newfound knowledge of the menstrual cycle and the effects that hormones can have on everything from digestion to emotion, suddenly a new world of opportunities seems to opens up. But research hasn’t been quick enough to keep up with the appetite and enthusiasm that we’ve created in sport for understanding female-specific performance.
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