Women's Training: Cycle, Menopause and Bone
What the research supports about the cycle (less than the apps claim), and what it strongly supports about lifting heavy.
6 steps · ~35min · tick as you go
6 steps
Training and the Menstrual Cycle: What the Evidence Supports
Learn that the meta-analysis found a trivial phase effect and argued against phase-based plans.
Rate the four popular cycle-syncing claims, including the one that is fine.
Low Energy Availability and REDs: The Underdiagnosed One
Recognise low energy availability, and why a missing period is a red flag rather than a badge.
Perimenopause and Menopause: Training, Symptoms and What Helps
See the LIFTMOR trial result: supervised heavy resistance and impact training improved bone density with no adverse events.
Bone Health: What Actually Builds It
Understand what load bone actually responds to, and why walking isn't it.
Grade claims about the cycle, menopause and bone, and check which ones you had the wrong way round.
How this works
Nothing here is gated and nothing is new: every step is a page or a calculator already on the site, and you can jump straight to any of them. The order is the contribution, along with the last step — a round of Grade the Claim, because reading something and being able to judge it later are different skills, and only the second one survives the week.
Ticks are saved on this device. Claims you meet in the check come back on a spacing schedule, and what you know keeps the tally.
Written and reviewed by Mathew Beale, MSc Biotechnology, University of Reading.
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