I feel like for most of my life, and I would gather maybe yours as well, we were not really

taught to honor the menstrual cycle. It was just this annoying thing where we bled for three to seven

days, you know, once every four weeks or so. And there was lots of cramping, and there was lots

of inflammation, there was lots of bloating. And I think that many women, myself included, have behaved in a way that would be best described as we are acting like we are little men with pesky hormones, right?

For too long, women have been following fitness programs designed for male physiology,

and then blaming ourselves when they don't work.

But here's the truth.

You have a 28-day infradian rhythm that men simply don't have,

and it's time to start training in alignment with your actual biology. In today's solo episode, I give you my updated thoughts and thinking around a variety of

topics that I know are very interesting for you. Today we're going to be talking about training,

fitness training, and modifying our training over the course of your menstrual cycle,

if you are someone who is still menstruating, and this will also include my peri menopausal

women, however irregular your cycle may be, and we will talk about that today.

And this was part of a talk that I had prepared for a recent visit to Europe where I presented

at the Health Optimization Summit. Of course, if you know my work in any capacity, you know that we

talked about this almost ad nauseum in the Betty Body book, which will have a link. If you

haven't picked that book up, please do in the show notes. And I wanted to update a little bit of my

thinking and thoughts around training for women in the Betty Body. We had talked about

different hormonal environments and how we might train differently. And of course,

all of those principles are still very true. And from the

data that I get from every woman that I talk to who's read the Betty Body and does this kind of

cyclical training is very, very useful for her. Starting with the obvious, of course, men and women

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