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Understanding your menstrual cycle can be key to achieving exercise goals

It’s pretty normal to feel full of energy for exercise some days, and as though you can’t be bothered on other days.

For women, there’s a physiological explanation behind this. While men’s hormone levels do change over a lifetime, day-to-day they remain quite stable. Women, however, experience fluctuating levels of sex hormones daily.

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