You’re an educated, resourceful, badass menstruator who has the potential to achieve anything you set your mind to. Unfortunately, you’re just ill-informed about the ins and outs of the menstrual cycle because the healthcare and education system didn’t adequately prepare you for it. If you’ve been cycling for a while, you probably treat menstruation like an insignificant chore you just have to deal with every month. But that’s the piece that often gets looked over, the fact that you’re dealing with it EVERY MONTH. Every month between the average years of 13-50. Thats about 444 periods in a lifetime, and if each period lasts about a week, that’s 8.5 years of bleeding. If you experience PMS a week or so before your flow, that’s 17 years dealing with unhappy symptoms. Let that sink in, and ask yourself if we’re so ill-informed about the menstrual cycle, why aren’t we doing something about it?

Ladies, do you sometimes feel like exercise performance is a gamble? Do you experience “good” or “bad” days at the gym and can’t figure out why? Do you feel like you fail at all fitness routines because you can’t find consistency? Do you chalk up those failures as laziness and loose that little ounce of confidence you were so dearly hanging on to?

Good news, the fitness routine you failed might not be the result of an allergy to exercise (or whatever we tell ourselves). Many women struggle with positive and negative changes in the quality of their exercise throughout their cycle. Most exercise programs are developed for men, not women who have hormones that cycle monthly. So, why should we follow them? It’s time to harness the badass cyclical nature of being a woman and adopt exercise practices that support this. Read this post to learn the secret to success for exercise as a woman: syncing movement to your cycles.