Keep at it

Aside from the physical benefits, working out during your period helps counterbalance the mental and emotional side effects of hormonal fluctuations. Here, five reasons why you shouldn’t avoid exercising the next time Aunt Flo comes around.

TEXT CHARLENE FANG

1 Your workouts reap better results than usual Sounds crazy, but don’t take it from us, take it from Stacy Sims, exercise physiologist for the USA Cycling Women’s Track Endurance Program and co-author of Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life. In it, she singles out how a woman’s exercise physiology resembles a man’s during her period, which means it’s a good time to work on achieving significant gains in strength and other goals. Backing her up is a 2016 Swedish study that revealed that training during the first two weeks of your menstrual cycle gives you bigger increases in muscle strength, power and mass. 2 Exercise helps fight the bloat It’s really not you;…

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Shape Singapore (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2018

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