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Improve your body literacy. Improve your performance.

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.

Emma RossApril 30, 2020Menstrual cycle, Women in sport, body literacy, self knowledge, tabboo, ostrogen, progesterone, performance, sports science, research

Mind the Gap: Building a bridge over the void of evidence on female performance

With 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.

Emma RossApril 30, 2020research, gender bias, Menstrual cycle, sports science, female athlete, performance, Women in sport