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The Nutrition Science Podcast

How to Sync Your Exercise Training with Your Menstrual Cycle

The Nutrition Science Podcast

Dr. Adrian Chavez

Science, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.8633 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Unlike men, women's hormones can change throughout the month and this can have an impact on energy, recovery, sleep, and more. This can add a layer of complexity to exercise for women and it is something that should be taken into consideration. Syncing your exercise training and other habits according to the phase of your menstrual cycle has become a hot topic recently and there are a lot of claims being made online about how women need to modify their habits during different phases of...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed

0:05.8

science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

0:11.1

All right, everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science podcast.

0:15.4

I have my friend Alyssa Olenik on the podcast today, Dr. Alistana Olinick.

0:19.9

So if you have not seen her content, I've shared

0:22.5

her content many, many times in my social media. But if you haven't seen her content already,

0:27.0

she's an expert in exercise physiology. She specifically specializes in menstrual cycle in

0:33.3

exercise training. So a very hot topic right now. and that's why I wanted to bring her on,

0:37.9

because what we're seeing in social media, or what I'm seeing a lot of, is people giving

0:43.1

exercise and nutrition prescriptions based on the menstrual cycle, and that's exactly what she studied.

0:48.9

So thanks for coming to the show today, Alyssa.

0:52.3

Thank you so much for having me on. I'm excited to be here.

0:55.3

Finally, chat with you in a more professional setting.

0:57.5

For those of you who are not unfamiliar with me, I'm going to shamelessly plug Adrian here

1:02.6

as healing my gut, my gut healing journey the past year, you know, balancing my hormones

1:09.2

and healing my gut.

1:31.8

So funny. So yeah, Alyssa and I worked together professionally. She hired me to work with her for a couple of months on her digestive symptoms. And like you said, it's so funny. I think about that. Like if I was one of those charlatans, I would be saying like, oh, I healed, you know, quote unquote healed your gut when reality was. It's like we we just made some, you know, some basic lifestyle changes. No, no, no, we're healing guts and balancing hormones today. And we're going to learn how to sync with our cycles and boost our metabolism along

1:37.3

the way. Perfect. Perfect. So on that note, so what we want to talk about on the podcast is I want you

1:42.8

to give us like your top hacks

1:45.0

for how to cycle sync your exercise program.

1:47.8

So we know that women, you know, throughout the month, there's massive changes in hormones

1:52.5

that really affect their exercise program, right?

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