Find out if you should be resistance training in correlation with your menstrual cycle.
PhD candidate Lauren Colenso-Semple knows how to put her knowledge and science to practice as a strength and conditioning coach. In this episode, Lauren joins Fast Talk Femmes to talk about her recently published review paper where she investigates whether hormone fluctuations positively or negatively affect strength performance or adaptations to resistance training.
Find out what Lauren and her co-authors conclude in regard to training according to the menstrual cycle—whether it’s practical or effective, how it relates to the basic principles of training, and what it means for future research. Lauren also tells us what she thinks of the many period-tracking apps flooding the market right now, and if any have merit for tailoring training to your cycle.
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