How to Develop a Menstrual Cycle Workout Plan for Women Athletes
Several factors, such as overtraining, diet, and stress, can hinder women athletes from reaching their peak performance. That’s why it’s crucial to create a dashboard that is specifically designed to support them. This tool can address these challenges and ensure that your women athletes can give their best performances.
Some studies suggest that different phases of the menstrual cycle can affect energy levels, strength, endurance, recovery, injury risk, hydration, nutrition, and thermoregulation in women.
A menstrual cycle workout plan is a way of adjusting the type and intensity of exercise to match the hormonal changes that occur throughout the month.
An easy way to do this is by creating demand planner dashboards to help you manage workloads based on players’ cycles and well-being. Here’s how you can do it.
Why Create Workout Plans Based on Menstrual Cycles?
The goal is to get your team to perform at their absolute best during the game. By being mindful of the training cycle, you not only achieve this goal but also bring additional benefits to your team, such as:
- Injury Prevention: It helps in avoiding injuries, keeping your players in good shape.
- Well-being: It teaches players to pay attention to their own bodies, promoting overall health and awareness.
- Increased Energy: Your players will feel better and have more energy, contributing to an overall positive team atmosphere.
You’re trying to optimize the performance, health, and well-being of all women athletes by taking advantage of their body’s natural rhythms.
Find out how technology is helping women’s teams improve player performance and well-being.
A Cycle-Oriented Workout Plan Starts with a Daily Questionnaire
Developing a menstrual cycle workout plan usually begins with a daily survey of your athletes. By considering both the phase of the cycle and the athlete’s well-being, a personalized recommended workload can be shown on a dashboard, like the one pictured below.
Each plan will be created by considering the specific symptoms and menstrual cycle phase of individual athletes.
What Does a Demand Planner Look Like?
This is where player tracking technology comes in. The information from the daily questionnaires will be combined with the data collected by your player tracking device and become part of a Demand Planner for each player. It’s a dashboard that provides real-time insights into whether players are meeting their workload goals during and after training.
The live tracking feature allows easy monitoring of individual loads, providing real-time insights to adjust player loads. This enables coaches to modify exercises during training, address potential risks early to prevent injuries, and optimize player performance during training sessions. Plus, it allows them to talk to their players at the right moment in certain phases, or on certain days before coming up with higher loads.
Customized Workloads for Women Athletes are Critical
Every woman is different, and there is not enough evidence to suggest a universal or standardized menstrual cycle workout plan for all women athletes. Therefore, it is important for women to monitor their own cycles and symptoms and consult with their coaches and trainers to develop a personalized plan that suits their individual needs and goals.
At KINEXON, our goal is to help you help your women athletes perform their best. We hope to empower athletes to achieve their full potential in a healthy manner. We encourage coaches and trainers to integrate this technology into their plans for the players and the team.
When the margin of victory is slim, every advantage matters. We know staff in team sports work individually, but we try to support with tools here, to integrate this stuff in easy-to-use dashboard to provide valuable insights helping your players to perform their best.
To learn more about developing cycle-oriented trainings for your players, contact us at any time, or download our free guide on developing customized menstrual cycle workout plans for women athletes.
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