After spending a lot of time working with females, most of whom train for one thing or another and looking at many many hormone panels it has really blown me away just how little the average female seems to know about their hormones. Especially as they relate to the menstrual cycle. This article will be a bit of an insight as to what is going on inside a healthy females body, why, and how to manipulate your diet and exercise to make use of the hormonal see saw. I would love this to become common knowledge instead of anytime the term “period” is used we try to block our ears.
It is important to remember there is no “normal” cycle. So long as it’s regular that is the main thing. Some women have a cycle that last 26 days, some 30, some 31 etc etc with the average cycle being thought of as 28 days. I will focus my numbers based on this.
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It makes perfect sense to everyone that getting up off the couch and flooding your body with freshly oxygenated blood is GOOD for you… But did you know the benefits of training outdoors are not just physical?
As the weather gets colder and daylight is shorter we can be more prone to catching the flu! Just because we aren’t “shredding for stereo” or parading around in a bikini doesn’t mean we should neglect our health!
I wrote an article years ago entitled “Can eating cheeseburgers make my shoulder hurt?” where I discussed a theory of being “allergic” to certain foods which would cause inflammation and therefore pain in my right shoulder. I based my hypothesis on the fact that a) I have chronic shoulder pain and b) this pain was far less when I ate clean foods. Years have passed, kilos have come and gone and thousands of hours of research on many topics have led me to being a much more educated physical culturist. So let’s revisit!
