Should Women Workout During Monthly Cycles?

Snehal Rakesh 24 Show

Should Women Workout During Monthly Cycles? Does your menstrual cycle affect how and when you should exercise? Anyone who has a menstrual cycle will be well aware of how it can affect you over the course of a month. At some points you feel upbeat and energetic, but at others all you want to do is lie in bed and eat chocolate. Serious period pains can prevent you from working out, but other than this what’s the potential impact of your menstrual cycle on your exercise schedule? Women may not feel like exercising during a painful period, but keeping active can help relieve pain and discomfort. Women are encouraged to try low impact exercises such as swimming, walking or cycling. Even if your pains are terrible and you don’t want to move, you might be tempted into some light exercise just to try and alleviate them. If women are stressed, their menstrual cycle can become longer or shorter, their periods may stop altogether, or they might become more painful. Regular exercise, such as running, swimming and yoga, can help women to relax. However, you shouldn’t go overboard – excessive exercise coupled with weightloss can put so much strain on your body that you stop having a period at all. You definitely don’t need to adjust your workout for the time of the month – whenever you want to exercise is brilliant, and it’s also fine if you feel like taking the day off. It’s just good to be aware of how your fluctuations in hormones can affect your mood and performance over your cycle. Check in with your mood and energy levels over the course of a month and note them down against your workout plan, and hopefully you’ll soon be able to see a pattern emerge and become more in tune with your body. Hope you find value in this episode :)