Michael Easter

She's doing all these things, right?

Or my girlfriend or a woman in general.

When she has that higher progesterone phase, she's a little bit more likely to want to be like inside and reflective and calm and securing the nest.

Not taking punches in the face.

Yeah, correct.

So it's not that we can't do those things during that, but it helps to be aware that we may interpret or produce different results.

And here's where it used to be really bad is I never used to understand this.

And so in that luteal phase, I would go and spar and I'd be like,

why do I suck today?

I actually, I suck.

I'm going to lose this fight.

And I would go down this mental spiral.

Oh, I would get in my head so bad and I would cry and I'd be so frustrated because you're more emotional during that time anyways, more likely.

So it was disastrous just because I didn't understand like, oh, well, I'm just not hormonally at the most optimal time to test myself.

But that's difficult to navigate as a female athlete because obviously we really, we still have to navigate and we still have to compete sometimes in the less optimal times in our cycle.

And it doesn't mean we can't do that.

Right.

The date for the fight gets set four months in advance or something.

You can't be like, hey, biology.

Yes.