Dr. Vonda Wright

Your immune system is more prone to taking on virus and bacteria.

It's not pro-inflammatory.

So you have that working for you.

Your core temperature is lower.

You can access carbohydrate a lot easier.

So you have more availability for fueling to hit high intensities.

Then when we see with ovulation, like I said, some women feel really fantastic right around the time of ovulation because of the estrogen surge.

Some have transient where they don't feel so great.

survey on women experiencing pain on ovulation because it's something that was never talked about.

And then some women are down for the count because of it.

So they don't plan any physical activity around that because they just can't, from a physical and mental standpoint, put themselves through anything.

So that's why I'm saying like ovulation, some women feel bulletproof.

Other women have this transient feeling of really flatness and pain.

And then afterwards in these...

early luteal phase so day 16 to about day 22 is variable well some women will feel like on top of the world still other women will feel i can't quite hit eye intensities and then in general these few days about day 24 to 27 before those hormones actually drop this is where you have your pms your premenstrual syndrome and cramping and fatigue and a lot of women are like not so great

So this is where we have to think about periodization.

First, lifestyle, but also how a woman is feeling.

We don't want people to do high-intensity interval training every day because that's just not going to create an adaptive response.

We have to think about the reason why we're exercising is to create a stress that the body is going to respond to.

We don't get fitter during exercise.