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Do Menstrual Symptoms Affect Exercise Performance? In 6,812 Exercising Women, Each Step Up in Symptom Frequency Raised the Odds of Missing or Changing Training

Oct 25
4 min read

Research on the menstrual cycle and performance usually asks whether women are stronger or fitter in one phase than another, a question the two studies read for this article do not address. That framing can miss what women themselves report: it is often the symptoms, not the hormone phase, that get in the way of training. This article looks at that second question.

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