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AFLW and Women's Super League teams using the menstrual cycle to their advantage

In 2020, Women's Super League club Chelsea announced that it was tailoring training to its players' menstrual cycles. "We think the hormonal fluctuations that women have around their menstrual cycle could alter performance for some individuals, but there's a lot of varied evidence and we are far from any conclusive research," Hannah Dower, an exercise physiologist and PhD candidate at Victoria University, explains. Stigma around menstrual cycle affects athletes' willingness to open up Dower says there is still stigma attached to the menstrual cycle, which can affect an athlete's willingness to talk about how it impacts them: "Women have been told to feel weak and dirty and wrong, that they should feel worse at certain stages in their cycle. Email us abcsport5050@your.abc.net.au 'Communication' with women is key Dower says evidence supports the idea that female athletes feel more comfortable talking to other women about their menstrual cycles. "People's experiences of the menstrual cycle are really different, that's basically the thread through my whole PhD," she says.

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