Ep. 207 - Is menstrual cycle periodization evidence-based? (feat Lauren Colenso-Semple)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

We were joined by McMaster University PhD. candidate Lauren Colenso-Semple who is studying the influence of exercise, nutrition, and hormones on skeletal muscle, specifically as they relate to the menstrual cycle. She has an extensive background not only in academia, having worked with a veritable “who’s who” of exercise science researchers in her journey to her PhD studies, but she also is an experienced personal trainer. In this episode she helps us understand whether “menstrual-cycle phase based training” is truly based on firm evidence, or if in some cases, the popular guidance sometimes extends beyond what we currently know (and what makes sense from a physiological perspective). Make sure to tune in to learn what we do and don’t know on this fascinating topic.

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0:00.0	Eric.
0:02.0	One more.
0:04.0	We haven't been giving the people what they want.
0:07.0	That's not what we do around here.
0:10.0	People are told what they want from us, and then they accept that that is what they need.
0:14.0	Yeah, from a top-down pyramid, and then they think to themselves, huh, where did this idea come from?
0:19.0	They've been leaving reviews. We've been asking for them.
0:21.2	They've been leaving, there's almost a dozen in the last several weeks.
0:25.3	We've not read a single one.
0:27.2	We're going to make a disastrous choice.
0:28.8	In fact, I'm going to include our guest, Lauren, hi, early into this introduction.
0:33.9	I'm going to have you choose the review that I'm going to read and then Eric's going to react to it. We have four and they each have a title. Unfortunately, they're all five stars.
0:42.4	Guess what our average, this is over now the last three years. Guess what our average rating is
0:47.4	on Iron Culture throughout the last three years. There's about 1,200 reviews. Just take a guess
0:51.4	what it works out to. Five stars. You're already part of the squad, FY reviews. Just take a guess what it works out too.
0:55.1	Five stars.
1:01.2	You're already part of the squad, FYI. Okay, you're part of the cold. It's 4.8, which is like a 96%. We're going to take it. So that's good. I'll read you just the titles, Lauren. So just pick one of these.
1:06.6	One title for a review is review and rating. Okay. The other one is something called Hail Pymann.
1:13.7	And then the other one is called the listener who listens.
1:16.7	Sorry, that's the third one.
1:17.5	And then I'll give you a fourth one.
1:19.2	My wife left me.
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