As a man I must admit I never thought about it on this level, but it is great that you actually made a video about it! Never seen a video like this before, so very good to give this some attention!!
Thanks Heather. I used this video in my High School Biology class to explain the Menstrual Cycle. The sport application had even some of the boys paying attention. Lol
Oh my gosh, Heather (and the team): thank you so much for this. So SO needed. I've been banging the drum on this ever since I read Roar and was put onto it by a friend who was banging the drum long before me. It has made such a difference to my own training and the way I train clients. As "Invisible Women" showed us, there is a shocking lack of data on women in every walk of life, and one of the biggest barriers is breaking down taboos on typically "female" topics. Videos like this will help do that, educate and stimulate discussion - which will hopefully to lead to more research. Giving people like Stacey and her team more information and thereby hopefully enabling them to come up with even more help and advice. Can't have been the easiest video to make so really want to applaud and thank you for your courage. And for putting it into language that is easy for everyone to understand. So grateful.
I think I asked about women training with menstrual cycles on GCN 5 times in one year and never got an answer. Guess it didn’t qualify for a cycling channel. Thanks for the info! 👍
I found this video very informative and destigmatizing. Thank you for helping me understand the relationship between a women's menstrual cycle and athletic performance.
I think this is something we all do kind of without really thinking about it. I know I'm gonna feel like trash on day 1 of my period, that hormone crash hits me like a truck. So that's automatically a rest day. Definitely interesting to think about actually planning harder stuff around other times though
I trained so hard for a race which occurred on that worst week of my cycle. Had it happened a week later my performance would have been better for sure! It is definitely a topic. More videos on this topic !!!
Well done and about time too 😃. At the age of 39yrs, this is the first ever video I've watched that finally talks about menstruation and sports. Thank you
I used to play semi professional rugby and hormones and womens performance were never discussed, despite the fact theres a higher chance of doing ligament damage at different spots in your cycle. Its great that we are finally having conversations about how periods affect athletes
Great to see GTN tackle female related issues that GCN have often promised and failed to deliver. There is a lack of information out there and it helps for men to be informed too and have greater understanding and therefore hopefully more sensitivity when giving advice with training / coaching!
Shoutout for Stacy Sims, so glad you brought her up. Her book ROAR is a wonderful primer on nutrition for women in the context of hormonal changes across a lifetime, including childbirth and menopause.
Great video thanks Heather! I’m coaching a girl and will definitely be trying to integrate the me menstrual cycle into programmes. It means you could get so much more out of training!
Heather, huge thanks for the video and actually listening to viewer comments in prior videos! I must confess, was unsure if my suggestion to GTN and GCN would be worked on, but I'm absolutely stoked. A greater insight on the topic is something that is urgently needed considering an increase in cyclists worldwide. Thank you!
A fantastic video there it is so often not talked about but all women go through this and its part of life... if there is gains to become of it. Go go go girls
My former training partner and I started tracking after our 2015 IM when we realized how powerful she was just a day before her period and what a hor mess I was 3 days before mine. Now that she owns a run store it is something we definitely discuss with women when it comes to buying winter gear since that body temp increase, no matter how small really counts on a 20 Below day.
There is a period tracker called FitrWoman which helps you track your period with regards to what stage you are in and might be helpful to some peps :) Thanks so much for the video!!! Exactly what platforms like GTN/ GCN should be doing
Well done team PLEASE don't let the view count dictate wether you do a future video like this again: you'll never can catch the causal viewer with this topic but it's important information for those that seek it and as a PE teacher I found it extremely useful.
Amazong video! Loved hearing all about it. Would love to know more about tracking a cycle for those that don't have a clear cycle and how to use this around sports and training! Definitely need to talk more about this topic and normalise it :) ❤❤
Thank you so much for talking about this topic. I would pay for a olympic distance triathlon training program with this in mind. I've been tracking my period for years now but have had a hard time translating that into planning my workouts.
Thank you so much Heather for this video! I have been wanting to learn about this for a while, but it is difficult to have conversations around this topic. I've noticed all my PBs running have been during my period. I will now pay more attention to the other phases of my cycle
Wow, super interesting. Always had so much respect in general for women dealing with their periods, but obviously this is next level. I will also try to not whine about minor bad shapes I might find myself in throughout a month, this puts things into perspective xD
Thank you for this excellent Video. Usually we women are left alone with this topic and just get the "advice" "find your Own way". It is great to get some Background Information.
great topic! I highly recommend using the FitrWoman app- you can use it to track your cycle and it’ll tell you what hormonal phase you’re in and how that affects your training. It gives you lots of nutritional advice and even has a platform for coaches to learn how to best train their female athletes according to their cycle. They’re doing so much for female sport, it’s super great, it can even sync with Strava and allows you to easily track how you're feeling on a day to day basis
Very informative, thank you! I recently heard about the Female Athlete Triad. I'm nowhere near professional, but I did notice changes in my cycle I'm slightly concerned about. Maybe this could be a topic for another video?
@@heatherfell_oly please do a video on this - I suspect a lot of women don't realise if their periods stop they are not producing the hormones necessary to maintain bone density, putting them at high risk of osteoporosis.
Hi Heather, i am 48 and i don’t have any menstruation circle , i am in a Menopause and i will work with a Coach who is educated for that. So i have to take a hormontherapy to get my hormones back.
Have their been studies that look at the menstrual cycle and sports/performance for women not taking a birth control pill and women on a birth control pill? Also, does Dr. Simms have any advice or does she discuss athletic amenorrhea and how much training is too much training?
The best study there is this link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-020-01317-5#Abs1 Unfortunately there seems to be a lack of quality studies on the topic and more research is needed, as the authors point out. There is a very good interview with the author in this podcast fuelthepedal.com/ftp-36-kirsty-elliott-sale-eimear-dolan-the-female-cyclist-series-part-2-oral-contraceptives-and-exercise-performance/ I would add however that oral contraceptives in athletes might be masking hormonal issues related with relative energy defficiency syndrome. Tha requires a very different approach.
This is really interesting - it's great to see you have covered it. I know for me, day 2-3 of my period won't have me anywhere near my bike or swimming, and that I also have a really predictable energy crash each month too (I think my bootcamp instructor knows too 😊). A top NZ athlete, Valerie Adams has recently had an article about her prep for the Olympics being based around her cycle, but I guess part of that is, she's the best in the game and can dictate that, but for a lot of women, that's not going to be the case and if your coach is a guy or a woman who doesn't feel strong effects, that's not so easy to say. i.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/300154360/from-here-to-maternity-dame-valerie-adams-warning-to-female-athletes
This is really helpful, but now we need to figure out where a woman is in her cycle when she no longer has a period to make it clear. I tracked my cycles from my first period at 13, but now don’t know where I am in it as I’ve entered menopause. My daughters are my team and their cycles are fairly synced, but mine was controlled by pills in order to care for endometriosis.
What happens if you are on a hormone spiral like Mirena and therefore doesn't menstruate at all? Do you still have these hormonal outswings, which can be tracked in the training/restitution graphics? Maybe the outswings are just on a more subtle scale? GTN (or sports physicians) halp! 😊🙏
Great video! I've been tracking my cycle since discovering Stacy Sims (I have her book too), it's amazing which days in Phase 3 my sleep is absolutely garbage, and on which days later in my cycle my legs will feel great. There's a handy app called FITR Woman (it's free). They also have some great recipe ideas emphasizing when and how to fuel workouts, recovery etc.
What if on the marathon day you are on your period? Which product one should choose? Pads I think will be a bad idea because it will chafe. What about tampons and menstrual cups will they chafe or leak when you are running a full marathon ?
What about tapering? Is there a way to influence the female body so that it can be in week 2 of the cycle when it is time to complete? Beyond birth control pills?
I made my millions years ago after I devised a formula for betting on female tennis players, predicting when a higher ranked player would have an unexpected loss to a lower ranked player - by forecasting when their periods were due, extrapolating forward from previous poor performances. Happy to share my work if anyone interested.
I never really thought about training around the full cycle. I just noticed during menstruation I bleed less and have almost cramping if I’m more active. If I’m sedentary, my first two days I’m practically bleeding to death and I get anemic a few days later. If I do day long bike rides on those “heavy” days, that completely skips.
As a man I must admit I never thought about it on this level, but it is great that you actually made a video about it! Never seen a video like this before, so very good to give this some attention!!
Great to see so many men learning from this too.
This topic needs more attention, Hope you keep talking about it. My gf suffers a lot during her period.
We plan to.
Heatner, thank you for opening up such essential topic on GTN's platform!
Thanks for the support
Highly informative! Thanks for talking about this highly underdiscussed topic!
A healthy and sensible discussion that is long overdue. The reality is this is life for half of the planet. It should not be a taboo subject at all.
Thanks, yes we agree at GTN.
Thanks Heather. I used this video in my High School Biology class to explain the Menstrual Cycle. The sport application had even some of the boys paying attention. Lol
That's brilliant, thank you.
Oh my gosh, Heather (and the team): thank you so much for this. So SO needed. I've been banging the drum on this ever since I read Roar and was put onto it by a friend who was banging the drum long before me. It has made such a difference to my own training and the way I train clients. As "Invisible Women" showed us, there is a shocking lack of data on women in every walk of life, and one of the biggest barriers is breaking down taboos on typically "female" topics. Videos like this will help do that, educate and stimulate discussion - which will hopefully to lead to more research. Giving people like Stacey and her team more information and thereby hopefully enabling them to come up with even more help and advice. Can't have been the easiest video to make so really want to applaud and thank you for your courage. And for putting it into language that is easy for everyone to understand. So grateful.
Thank you for the lovely comment. Hopefully we can build on this in a future video.
What a great episode! I plan to start tracking my cycle to align my training- Thank you Heather and GTN!
Great we could help, an interesting topic we know so little about.
I think I asked about women training with menstrual cycles on GCN 5 times in one year and never got an answer. Guess it didn’t qualify for a cycling channel. Thanks for the info! 👍
At least this is not sport specific so hopefully it helped you.
I found this video very informative and destigmatizing. Thank you for helping me understand the relationship between a women's menstrual cycle and athletic performance.
Thank you for watching from a male perspective, it is something that whether male or female we can do to know more about.
I think this is something we all do kind of without really thinking about it. I know I'm gonna feel like trash on day 1 of my period, that hormone crash hits me like a truck. So that's automatically a rest day. Definitely interesting to think about actually planning harder stuff around other times though
I trained so hard for a race which occurred on that worst week of my cycle. Had it happened a week later my performance would have been better for sure! It is definitely a topic. More videos on this topic !!!
Well done and about time too 😃. At the age of 39yrs, this is the first ever video I've watched that finally talks about menstruation and sports. Thank you
I've read Dr. Simms book and appreciate this video. Knowledge really changed my training regimen/timing throughout the month. Good job, GTN!
We can learn a lot from Dr Simms for sure.
Her book is completely enlightening!
I used to play semi professional rugby and hormones and womens performance were never discussed, despite the fact theres a higher chance of doing ligament damage at different spots in your cycle. Its great that we are finally having conversations about how periods affect athletes
Great to see GTN tackle female related issues that GCN have often promised and failed to deliver. There is a lack of information out there and it helps for men to be informed too and have greater understanding and therefore hopefully more sensitivity when giving advice with training / coaching!
I agree, let's keep the conversation growing.
Ha, yes GCN said they were all about supporting women in cycling and diversity... but keep hiring more white male presenters. Hmmm.
Thank you for this Video!
Also great shoutout to the male viewers in the beginning.
It really is something all can learn from I'm sure.
Shoutout for Stacy Sims, so glad you brought her up. Her book ROAR is a wonderful primer on nutrition for women in the context of hormonal changes across a lifetime, including childbirth and menopause.
Thank you SO MUCH for this video, my mind is blown and I'm sure I'm going to be coming back to it heaps ❤️
You're welcome, really glad you found it helpful 🙂
Great video thanks Heather! I’m coaching a girl and will definitely be trying to integrate the me menstrual cycle into programmes. It means you could get so much more out of training!
It really does but I guess adds more to the coaches workload. Great to hear you're looking to adapt.
Heather, huge thanks for the video and actually listening to viewer comments in prior videos! I must confess, was unsure if my suggestion to GTN and GCN would be worked on, but I'm absolutely stoked. A greater insight on the topic is something that is urgently needed considering an increase in cyclists worldwide. Thank you!
Thanks for your feedback, hopefully there'll be more to come.
This is brilliant! Thanks so much for putting together such a useful resource for female athletes (and their coaches)
A fantastic video there it is so often not talked about but all women go through this and its part of life... if there is gains to become of it. Go go go girls
My former training partner and I started tracking after our 2015 IM when we realized how powerful she was just a day before her period and what a hor mess I was 3 days before mine. Now that she owns a run store it is something we definitely discuss with women when it comes to buying winter gear since that body temp increase, no matter how small really counts on a 20 Below day.
Great to hear you're talking about it and helping other women.
So important and learning all this made such a difference in my training 🙌
It's amazing how many women aren't aware, I wasn't until recently.
I was not going to watch this. But since I so respect what you do Heather I did. Us guys don't know what women runners go thru. Thank You!
Thanks Xavier, I made this for men and women as the menstrual cycle effects everyone in some way.
And I mentioned it to some female triathletes I coach once a week in running to watch and consider for designing their upcoming season plans
Great topic!! Thank you Heather and GTN!
Thanks, one I've wanted to cover for a while.
There is a period tracker called FitrWoman which helps you track your period with regards to what stage you are in and might be helpful to some peps :)
Thanks so much for the video!!! Exactly what platforms like GTN/ GCN should be doing
I have been using that one and now trying out Wild AI another great app.
Well done team PLEASE don't let the view count dictate wether you do a future video like this again: you'll never can catch the causal viewer with this topic but it's important information for those that seek it and as a PE teacher I found it extremely useful.
Thanks Jacob, the more men and women that are educated in this topic the better.
Thank you for this video. It is great that this topic is getting attention :)
Amazong video! Loved hearing all about it. Would love to know more about tracking a cycle for those that don't have a clear cycle and how to use this around sports and training! Definitely need to talk more about this topic and normalise it :) ❤❤
That is certainly a point for a future vid.
Thank you so much for talking about this topic. I would pay for a olympic distance triathlon training program with this in mind. I've been tracking my period for years now but have had a hard time translating that into planning my workouts.
Great, I’ve wanted to read about this for quite some time.
Is great that this topic is being discussed. Is a long way from the embarrassing note to get out of swim class.
I would have found this conversation much harder even just a few years ago as an athlete.
Excellent video, impressive really. Will rewatch!
Thank you so much Heather for this video! I have been wanting to learn about this for a while, but it is difficult to have conversations around this topic. I've noticed all my PBs running have been during my period. I will now pay more attention to the other phases of my cycle
It's really interesting when you start to track it. Great to hear you're gaining from it too.
What an awesome video! Thank you 🙏
Thank you for this !!!
I have been keeping track of my cycle the laat few month and it is very interesting to note the way you feel and how you train
Wow, super interesting. Always had so much respect in general for women dealing with their periods, but obviously this is next level. I will also try to not whine about minor bad shapes I might find myself in throughout a month, this puts things into perspective xD
Wow. Great tip!
Such good info. Thank you for putting this out there.
Great video Heather! Thanks
Thank you
great that you have covered this!
great video.. would be good to look at menopause too though ??? as my training has gone to pot when you dont know where your cycle is..
I think we need a follow up video looking at the menopause, we'll start to research that. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this video!
Very interesting, thanks 😊
Thank you for this excellent Video.
Usually we women are left alone with this topic and just get the "advice" "find your Own way".
It is great to get some Background Information.
The more it is discussed the more we can all help each other.
great topic! I highly recommend using the FitrWoman app- you can use it to track your cycle and it’ll tell you what hormonal phase you’re in and how that affects your training. It gives you lots of nutritional advice and even has a platform for coaches to learn how to best train their female athletes according to their cycle. They’re doing so much for female sport, it’s super great, it can even sync with Strava and allows you to easily track how you're feeling on a day to day basis
Liza I agree, i've been using it a while as well as Wild AI, another great app.
Very informative, thank you!
I recently heard about the Female Athlete Triad. I'm nowhere near professional, but I did notice changes in my cycle I'm slightly concerned about. Maybe this could be a topic for another video?
It is now known as REDS and is something for men and women to be aware of so yes I am keen to cover this topic too.
@@heatherfell_oly please do a video on this - I suspect a lot of women don't realise if their periods stop they are not producing the hormones necessary to maintain bone density, putting them at high risk of osteoporosis.
@@suziel5817 I am aware this is an important area and it's certainly on my list. Thanks.
Do you have a video about perimenopause and menopause ?
Not yet but certainly an idea for the future.
Thanks for mentioning this
Hi Heather, i am 48 and i don’t have any menstruation circle , i am in a Menopause and i will work with a Coach who is educated for that. So i have to take a hormontherapy to get my hormones back.
Well done team 💜
Have their been studies that look at the menstrual cycle and sports/performance for women not taking a birth control pill and women on a birth control pill? Also, does Dr. Simms have any advice or does she discuss athletic amenorrhea and how much training is too much training?
I’d suggest taking a look at Dr Simms book “Roar”
It's certainly something for a follow up video, thanks for the questions.
The best study there is this link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-020-01317-5#Abs1
Unfortunately there seems to be a lack of quality studies on the topic and more research is needed, as the authors point out.
There is a very good interview with the author in this podcast fuelthepedal.com/ftp-36-kirsty-elliott-sale-eimear-dolan-the-female-cyclist-series-part-2-oral-contraceptives-and-exercise-performance/
I would add however that oral contraceptives in athletes might be masking hormonal issues related with relative energy defficiency syndrome. Tha requires a very different approach.
This is really interesting - it's great to see you have covered it. I know for me, day 2-3 of my period won't have me anywhere near my bike or swimming, and that I also have a really predictable energy crash each month too (I think my bootcamp instructor knows too 😊). A top NZ athlete, Valerie Adams has recently had an article about her prep for the Olympics being based around her cycle, but I guess part of that is, she's the best in the game and can dictate that, but for a lot of women, that's not going to be the case and if your coach is a guy or a woman who doesn't feel strong effects, that's not so easy to say. i.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/300154360/from-here-to-maternity-dame-valerie-adams-warning-to-female-athletes
Thanks for sharing.
This is really helpful, but now we need to figure out where a woman is in her cycle when she no longer has a period to make it clear. I tracked my cycles from my first period at 13, but now don’t know where I am in it as I’ve entered menopause. My daughters are my team and their cycles are fairly synced, but mine was controlled by pills in order to care for endometriosis.
There certainly seems demand for a follow up video on this topic, thanks for sharing.
What to do when a competition coincides with the first day of the menstruation? is there a way to trick the hormones?
What happens if you are on a hormone spiral like Mirena and therefore doesn't menstruate at all?
Do you still have these hormonal outswings, which can be tracked in the training/restitution graphics?
Maybe the outswings are just on a more subtle scale?
GTN (or sports physicians) halp! 😊🙏
Great video! I've been tracking my cycle since discovering Stacy Sims (I have her book too), it's amazing which days in Phase 3 my sleep is absolutely garbage, and on which days later in my cycle my legs will feel great. There's a handy app called FITR Woman (it's free). They also have some great recipe ideas emphasizing when and how to fuel workouts, recovery etc.
Andrea I must admit I use the FITR app and Wild AI, both interesting and helpful.
@@heatherfell_oly cool. I'll check out the other app!!
So are you saying it's better to lift heavier 2 weeks before our period starts and then do low impact on her period
What if on the marathon day you are on your period? Which product one should choose? Pads I think will be a bad idea because it will chafe. What about tampons and menstrual cups will they chafe or leak when you are running a full marathon ?
What about tapering? Is there a way to influence the female body so that it can be in week 2 of the cycle when it is time to complete? Beyond birth control pills?
please just don't. It will disrupt everything on the long run!
Great!
I love your jacket. Where can I get one?
It was from the GTN shop but there will be new ones coming sometime in the future.
I made my millions years ago after I devised a formula for betting on female tennis players, predicting when a higher ranked player would have an unexpected loss to a lower ranked player - by forecasting when their periods were due, extrapolating forward from previous poor performances. Happy to share my work if anyone interested.
WHOOOOOA!!!!!! Bodyforrm..... bodyform for you......
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Male viewers of the typical GTN video: 76%
Male viewers of this video: 96%
i just thought their body fat got too low. and no longer had to worry about it.
it is a sign that your body ist unhealthy when you quit menstruation.
Spelt her first AND LAST name wrong 😭🤦♀️
We apologise to Stacy for that mistake.
Being a sensitive man I have always been very aware of my wife's menstural psycho, I mean cycle.
Thanks so much for this video! There’s so little XX-centric sports training media out there.
I never really thought about training around the full cycle. I just noticed during menstruation I bleed less and have almost cramping if I’m more active. If I’m sedentary, my first two days I’m practically bleeding to death and I get anemic a few days later. If I do day long bike rides on those “heavy” days, that completely skips.