Ladies how do you exercise on your cycle?

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  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    Usually first day or so I'm extra tired and might be queasy, so I generally don't get much of a workout that day. And I hate tampons, so I usually avoid swimming. Otherwise I'm one of the lucky ins, and it seldom seriously bothers me, unless I let myself get overworked or exhausted.
  • Willbenchforcupcakes
    Willbenchforcupcakes Posts: 4,955 Member
    I just do it. I’m hardly going to back out of a meet just because it falls during my period (hello cycle day one being lifting day at worlds the last two years), so I don’t see why I would take it easy in training.

    I do notice my joints are extra wiggly the week prior and the first couple days, so I pay attention and will lighten up squat loads or choose a safer variation. But that’s the only modification I’ll do.
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    edited January 2018
    How honest/graphic should we be? I may be done with periods (nearly a year now without one) but when I was so heavy that I...well, gushed, no matter what I was wearing, I did all standing-up exercises. Somehow not having backward pressure, I guess, made gushing less likely during a given exercise. And immediately before working out I would start fresh with protection and backup.

    As for pain, nothing helped with that, ever, not for 38 years, so I learned to live with it and worked out through it.

    If you don't want to work out for one or two days, don't. It is always up to you.
  • WilmaValley
    WilmaValley Posts: 1,092 Member
    Such a good discussion, learned a lot, thanks!
  • KellieTru
    KellieTru Posts: 285 Member
    I just do my usual routine. I find it actually helps lessen cramping.
  • Leadfoot_Lewis
    Leadfoot_Lewis Posts: 1,623 Member
    callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »
    the same as i do any other time?

    ^This.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »
    the same as i do any other time?

    That^^
  • purpleannex
    purpleannex Posts: 61 Member
    ...without the saddle...
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    I don't. There are plenty of other days in the month.
  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    I used to be in the school of "I just do it" but as I've gotten older and off birth control, my periods are not kind to me. Thankfully, it's usually just a day that's really bad, so I push training off to the next day.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    I don't have periods (thanks, Mirena!) but I occasionally get cramps without bleeding. That only happens if I haven't been exercising--it happened before I started running regularly, and it happens if I take a couple weeks off. Exercise keeps me from having to deal with that.
  • Blanche76
    Blanche76 Posts: 89 Member
    Mine is heavy the first 2 days, so I rest.
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