What to Do If You Think Your Period Is Affecting Your Workout

Is it harder to run fast and lift heavy while you’re on your period?

Here are some tips from top athletes that might help.

For a key race in 2013, team doctors gave hernorethistroneto delay her period.

Radcliffe says the medics should have known that this would make her performance worse, not better.

So, what can you do about it?

Here are some more tips that may help.

Go easy on yourself.

Don’t assume you’ll perform badly just because it’s That Time of the Month.

Lots of things can affect your performance in sports, and you may have betterreturn-on-investmentfocusing on those other aspects.

Keep a training diaryto track what’s going on.

Sadly, whether you tell a trainer or teammate is, the athletes noted, a double edged sword.

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