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Cycle-Based Training: An Honest Review of the Evidence
Training around the menstrual cycle sounds like precision sport science — the studies behind it are too small and too inconsistent to prescribe from yet.
Training around the menstrual cycle sounds like precision sport science — the studies behind it are too small and too inconsistent to prescribe from yet.
Roughly 3 to 6 milligrams per kilogram of body weight improves endurance and power in most adults — with sleep disruption, not habituation, as the main cost.
Eating protein soon after training helps, but the window is hours wide — and total daily protein matters far more than any clock.
DOMS peaks 24 to 72 hours after unfamiliar exercise, and almost every popular remedy for it has thinner evidence than the soreness itself.