S9 Ask Dr Hazel: Tips for competing during your menstrual cycle

The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Welcome to Ask Dr Hazel, mini episodes that drop each week between our main epsiodes. This weeks listener question is: “I am really into Cross Fit but I can’t control my cycle around competitions and intense workouts. What would you recommend if a competition falls in my luteal phase of my cycle?”Find our more about training around your cycle in Dr Hazel’s book ‘The Female Factor’ : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Female-Factor-Making-womens-health/dp/1529382866If you would like to submit a question to the podcast please send your voice recorded question to info@thefoodmedic.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:03.0	Not much to it, is there?
0:06.0	Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:10.0	Mmm, that is good.
0:13.0	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:16.0	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:18.0	Delicious.
0:20.0	Hello and welcome back to the Food Medic podcast. with walkers. Delicious.
0:24.3	Hello and welcome back to the FoodMedic podcast.
0:27.9	Welcome to our mini episodes Ask Dr. Hazel.
0:31.1	Thank you for submitting your questions and a gentle reminder.
0:32.8	If you do want to submit your own question,
0:38.3	to please send us your audio recorded questions to info at thefoodmedic.com. So let's jump into this week's question.
0:41.7	Hey Hazel, my name is Nick and I'm really into CrossFit,
0:44.7	but unfortunately I can't control my cycle around CrossFit competitions
0:48.5	and intense workouts.
0:50.9	What would you recommend if a CrossFit competition fallsompetition falls in my Luteal phase of my cycle?
0:59.0	Okay, so competitions in the Luteal phase. This is a really great question, but let's just
1:06.3	bring it back to basics. So when we're talking about the menstrual cycle, there are two main phases, the
1:13.2	follicular phase and the luteal phase with ovulation sandwiched in between. Now luteal phase is our
1:20.4	second phase just before our next period. And during that phase, progesterone at its highest,
1:27.2	estrogen is also high.
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