Women's Health & Training
The cycle, the menopause transition, and the energy-availability problem nobody screens for.
Most fitness advice was built on studies of men and then reissued with a lighter dumbbell. The corrective has swung the other way: cycle-syncing apps and hormone-based training plans now promise a precision the underlying research cannot support.
These guides sit between the two. Where the evidence is thin — and on cycle-phase performance it is genuinely thin — we say so, and point at the things that are well established instead: training load, energy availability, bone health and the menopause transition.
Guides
- Training and the Menstrual Cycle: What the Evidence Supports
The honest state of the science on cycle-phase performance, and why "train with your cycle" outruns it.
- Perimenopause and Menopause: Training, Symptoms and What Helps
What changes, what training does about it, and where hormone therapy fits as a clinical decision rather than a product.
- Low Energy Availability and REDs: The Underdiagnosed One
Not eating enough for your training load is a syndrome with a name, a consensus statement and a long list of consequences.