This is your quick-start guide to hormone-friendly and menstrual cycle-informed exercise for women. It’s time to upgrade exercise from a fixed and prescriptive routine to intuitive self-care with workouts that are optimized for your female physiology.

Perimenopause is the sometimes tricky transition between your fertile years and postmenopause. This blog teaches you how to adapt exercise to your hormones even if your menstrual cycle is hard to pin down. This is also a great approach to cyclical fitness for irregular periods or acute life stress. BONUS: Get a free perimenopause workout calendar!

When you allow your workouts to mirror your natural energy fluctuations, all it takes is a few minor adjustments in timing, intensity, and style to help you remain active, destress, and more effectively reach your fitness goals.

The female body is an expertly designed system that supports the cyclical potential for life. As a result, a menstruating woman’s metabolism operates at a very high efficiency and varies throughout her cycle according to fluctuating hormones. This changing inner chemistry serves a unique reproductive mission, but it can also inform the way we nourish our bodies to support energy levels and vitality all month long.

If you’re worried that cycle-syncing exercise means you have to give up your favorite workouts or only do yoga in your luteal phase, this one is for you! Learn how to adapt your strength training, running, and yoga sessions to mirror your menstrual cycle.

Whether you’ve been seed cycling for years or are in the early stages of exploring this holistic hormone-balancing practice, you can upgrade your pre-and post-workout fuel with a cycle-friendly boost that supports your menstrual rhythm by modulating the key players of estrogen and progesterone.

It’s more than just working out. In this conversation with the lovely Sarah Byrne, we discuss the struggle that many menstruators face when trying to fit into a 24-hour paradigm. We trade practical guidance for surrendering to the flow and how to let the people we care about into that process.