Michael Easter

So what I was saying is that when I started training, according to that, when I started saying, well,

expectation is here i'm going to do more of my longer endurance type workouts in the follicular phase and i'm going to lift prioritize my heaviest lifting week when i have a little testosterone present because that's nice for building muscle like why not you know prioritize

It doesn't mean I wasn't working out or lifting or pushing myself at all, at all phases.

But I gave myself permission in my luteal phase to show up differently.

And it's usually for me, it's only about two days of the luteal phase where I really feel this heaviness.

It's almost like I'm moving through water and things are really difficult, but it's somewhere usually in that week before my cycle begins, somewhere in there.

And it's like, okay, so for these couple of days,

Today, I'm not feeling it.

I'm going to adjust my workout plan and I'm not going to spar today.

You work with it rather than against it.

And that's it.

And then what happens instead of digging myself such a hole by still forcing myself to show up the same way in this small window of time when I really don't feel like I'm capable of that, but I could do it if I manually overrode it.

But what does it take for me in the long run?

Then when my better phase of the cycle shows up again, I'm buried.

Okay, so would you then, how did this affect your weight cuts?

When you started thinking from a woman's point of view, did that change how you would do the weight cut thing?

Absolutely.

Yeah, the weight cut was so much easier when I started.

What would you change?

So you changed basically the type of training you would do.