Dr. Vonda Wright

And then when you have estrogen progesterone, we see their metabolic shifts, we see their temperature shifts.

But the caveat is we don't know if a woman ovulates or not.

And I'm sure that Natalie can give some stats about the anovulatory incidences in most women.

If we were to understand and know when a woman ovulates, in addition to how she feels across her cycle, then she can individually tailor her menstrual cycle to her training.

But for general plan, we can't do that.

your own data and you know which days you feel really fantastic that's where you want to put your higher intensity your heavier lifting because you know that you're going to hit those training metrics what we don't want is for someone to go in to do a high intensity session on days they feel flat because then they won't hit the metrics that they need to to get the stimulus we're after can you explain this to me like i'm a 10 year old in terms of where in the cycle typically women will have more energy and really be able to push themselves

Right here, five to seven days before ovulation.

Some women feel really great around ovulation.

Some have a transient where they'll feel really awful on and around ovulation and maybe 24 hours later, they feel really fantastic.

Most women are variable through the early luteal phase.

So if we think about day 6 to 14, that's when we see women feel really robust and strong and feel like they can take on the world.

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.