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When I have my period, the cramps make me not want to work out my core and the fact that there's a pad between my thighs makes me not want to move my lower body at all. I've been working out my upper body when I have my period but there's only so many dumbbell exercises you can do and it gets boring. I heard that during your period, hormonal changes can boost your tolerance and muscle recovery, so I want to take advantage of those changes to make the most of my workouts and work out my entire body. Any tips?
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Your menstrual cycle may be a drag on your mood, but it doesn't have to slow down your workout schedule. For some athletes bleeding is such a burden that they take birth control pills like Seasonique to limit their periods so they don't have to mix training sessions with PMS. But do you really have to change up your menstrual cycle in the name of a good workout? And can exercising when you're bleeding pose more serious risks than simple inconvenience? We scoured the medical journals and talked to top researchers to get the scientific low-down on how your menstrual cycle does (and doesn't) affect your workout.
Top athletes don't let a little bleeding slow them down, and you don't have to either. Turkish researchers surveyed 241 elite athletes about how their menstrual cycle affected their performance. While nearly three out of four women said they felt worse just before menstruation, 63 percent said that their pain decreased during training and competition and 62.2 percent said that they believed their performance was just as good when they had their period as other times of the month. A West Virginia University study found that female runners performed equally well whether tested during the first half or second half of their menstrual cycles. The one caveat may be for women with severe premenstrual and menstrual symptoms, such as serious cramps and heavy bleeding. In one French study women who reported these symptoms performed more poorly on a broad-jump exercise during their period compared to their later in their cycle.
Your Menstrual Cycle: Your period might increase your chance of injury.
Women are two to 10 times more likely to get ACL injuries than men, and studies have found clusters of these knee injuries at the startâand just beforeâmenstruation. Why? When Australian researchers looked at the muscle mechanics of women running on a treadmill, they found differences in the way their knees moved during menstruation compared to ovulation. The researchers chalked this up to poorer motor control during menstruationâanything from letting your knee collapse inward when you land to letting your quads do all the work instead of involving the hamstrings and glutes, says Timothy E. Hewett, Ph.D., director of the Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation. "The bad news is that there may be an association between a woman's menstrual cycle and her risk of ACL injury," says Hewett, who has been studying the effect of the menstrual cycle on injury for 15 years. "The good news is while we can't change a woman's anatomy or do a lot about her hormones, we do know that we can alter her neuromuscular control and decrease her injury risk by half." In several studies, Hewett and his colleagues showed that when they gave athletes additional neuromuscular training, teaching them how to reduce the load on their knees and ankles and building up strength and coordination in both sides of the body, they dropped their rates of ACL injury, ankle injury and knee cap pain by 50 to 60 percent. He recommends adding single-leg balance work, plyometric jump work (focusing on form rather than quantity), and hamstring and glute strengthening to your workouts twice a week for 15 to 20 minutes.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends regular aerobic exercise to help relieve PMS. You probably don't need a scientist to convince you of that! Set foot in the gym when you're PMSing and you'll boost your mood, ward off fatigue and facilitate a better night of zzz's. "I feel best any day of the month if I get going in the morning with a workout," says Anne Kveta Haack, 36, of New York City, who rotates between swimming, running, biking, yoga and light weights regardless of her cycle status.
Most of you are game to hit the gym no matter what time of the month it is. One 2010 study found that women's workout schedules did not change over the course of their menstrual cycle, whether they took birth control pills or not.
Hope this helped!!!!
Your menstrual cycle may be a drag on your mood, but it doesn't have to slow down your workout schedule. For some athletes bleeding is such a burden that they take birth control pills like Seasonique to limit their periods so they don't have to mix training sessions with PMS. But do you really have to change up your menstrual cycle in the name of a good workout? And can exercising when you're bleeding pose more serious risks than simple inconvenience? We scoured the medical journals and talked to top researchers to get the scientific low-down on how your menstrual cycle does (and doesn't) affect your workout.
Top athletes don't let a little bleeding slow them down, and you don't have to either. Turkish researchers surveyed 241 elite athletes about how their menstrual cycle affected their performance. While nearly three out of four women said they felt worse just before menstruation, 63 percent said that their pain decreased during training and competition and 62.2 percent said that they believed their performance was just as good when they had their period as other times of the month. A West Virginia University study found that female runners performed equally well whether tested during the first half or second half of their menstrual cycles. The one caveat may be for women with severe premenstrual and menstrual symptoms, such as serious cramps and heavy bleeding. In one French study women who reported these symptoms performed more poorly on a broad-jump exercise during their period compared to their later in their cycle.
Your Menstrual Cycle: Your period might increase your chance of injury.
Women are two to 10 times more likely to get ACL injuries than men, and studies have found clusters of these knee injuries at the startâand just beforeâmenstruation. Why? When Australian researchers looked at the muscle mechanics of women running on a treadmill, they found differences in the way their knees moved during menstruation compared to ovulation. The researchers chalked this up to poorer motor control during menstruationâanything from letting your knee collapse inward when you land to letting your quads do all the work instead of involving the hamstrings and glutes, says Timothy E. Hewett, Ph.D., director of the Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation. "The bad news is that there may be an association between a woman's menstrual cycle and her risk of ACL injury," says Hewett, who has been studying the effect of the menstrual cycle on injury for 15 years. "The good news is while we can't change a woman's anatomy or do a lot about her hormones, we do know that we can alter her neuromuscular control and decrease her injury risk by half." In several studies, Hewett and his colleagues showed that when they gave athletes additional neuromuscular training, teaching them how to reduce the load on their knees and ankles and building up strength and coordination in both sides of the body, they dropped their rates of ACL injury, ankle injury and knee cap pain by 50 to 60 percent. He recommends adding single-leg balance work, plyometric jump work (focusing on form rather than quantity), and hamstring and glute strengthening to your workouts twice a week for 15 to 20 minutes.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends regular aerobic exercise to help relieve PMS. You probably don't need a scientist to convince you of that! Set foot in the gym when you're PMSing and you'll boost your mood, ward off fatigue and facilitate a better night of zzz's. "I feel best any day of the month if I get going in the morning with a workout," says Anne Kveta Haack, 36, of New York City, who rotates between swimming, running, biking, yoga and light weights regardless of her cycle status.
Most of you are game to hit the gym no matter what time of the month it is. One 2010 study found that women's workout schedules did not change over the course of their menstrual cycle, whether they took birth control pills or not.
Hope this helped!!!!
am i a gamer girl? if not, would you settle for me? (you being a guy who only wants to date gamers)?
Outlandish
so, i like this guy, im almost certain hes interested in me but neither of us know each other very well, but i do however think that hes looking for a gamer girl.
situation:
i see him all alone at the computer games lab at uni at 10am in the holidays (hes studying games design) but i had to go, so i asked him later online why he was there.
he says: Having an all night lan. Lol that sounds so nerdy.
i say: haha seriously? all by yourself?
him: lol no with male_friend_1 and male_friend_2. This is probably why I'm single haha.
me: nah. lan parties are win.
him: Lol are you a gamer girl?
i said not really,
but guys what would you do, i mean if you wanted a gamer girl, would you settle for me?
this next part describes my relationship with games:
during primary school my parents let my play spyro on ps1 as a child. i loved all those games, i'd get up at like 3am so i could play them for like 8 hours straight, (after my rents woke up they always told me to get off after 1 hour, they didnt want me playing video games). I did the same for heaps of little flash games when we finally bought a computer. then i found a tarzan computer game that i also got obsessed with. then they bought me a ps2 and yea. i always played computer games but things like harry potter, atlantis, alladin, shark tale, finding nemo, etc (actually now i come to think of it, most of them were based off of movies), and a couple car racing games, and bmx/quad bike/bike games etc. so they were kind of gay games. when i was 14 i wanted to buy final fantasy but my parents wouldnt let me. when i was 14 i also played halo for the first time. needless to say, i was crap. my friend who was a real gamer girl at that time kept running me over, repeatedly, straight after i respawned.
when i was 16 i played urban terror a couple times, but i was so crap at that and my computer couldnt handle it, by this point i was obsessed with many flash games including N. By this point i'd also found a simulator and felt like i could finally live the childhood id always wanted (by playing mario kart, mario world, zelda, banjo kazooie, etc on computer) i also downloaded rapellz to see if id like that but computer couldnt handle it. when i was 17 i got some money and bought a whole heap of games on steam. most of them were gay cheap ones, (like the star wars ones, but i wanted them just to practise), thats when i bought bioshock but turns out its too freaky for me lol good thing i didnt buy left 4 dead. i liked avatar despite the bad reviews but once again computer is fail and couldnt quite handle it. I also really really liked prince of persia and my computer could handle it (so i fully completed that one). then i went away for a year and couldnt play anything. came back, now i have a foster brother who is a gamer. he owns an xbox and some games, he let me play assasins creed and i really liked that one, i even totally completed it. He also plays COD alot so whenever he was playing zombies or live he always let me play too. i was terrible. nearly always the worst on the team but by the end of it i was beginning to get kill streaks against level 40-50 people and schtuffle. but hes currently banned from xbox so now i havent been able to play anything for several months.
so i dont play much now and i dont own many games except for some dodge ones online i never play
would you call me a gamer? try-hard gamer? casual gamer? or just someone not completely opposed to gaming? or what.
REAL QUESTION. GUYS IF YOU ONLY WANT TO DATE GAMER GIRLS, WOULD YOU SETTLE FOR ME?
if you must know, bmi 20.1 5'9. i do excersise everyday thank you very much and apparently im a pretty blonde, so ive been told.
Answer
I'm sure the Gamer aspects isn't the only thing that will be important if you want to get together; yes it would be an initial conversation/similar interests thing but you need to have an attraction or spark and get on despite the gaming. Maybe just get talking to him more and see how it goes, see whether you get on etc.
ps don't be so worried about the 'casual gamer' 'hardcore gamer' thing, just enjoy playing them, who cares lol.
Good luck :)
I'm sure the Gamer aspects isn't the only thing that will be important if you want to get together; yes it would be an initial conversation/similar interests thing but you need to have an attraction or spark and get on despite the gaming. Maybe just get talking to him more and see how it goes, see whether you get on etc.
ps don't be so worried about the 'casual gamer' 'hardcore gamer' thing, just enjoy playing them, who cares lol.
Good luck :)
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