LEARN WITH NANA

Understand more. Second-guess less.

For a long time, women were given general advice and expected to figure out the rest themselves. But your cycle, training load, recovery, symptoms, fuelling and life do not exist in isolation. The more context we have, the more useful the guidance becomes. Consider this your growing guide to female physiology, fuelling, training and health. What we know, what we’re still learning, and how to make sense of it for the athlete that matters most: you.

Understand your body

  • Hormones and athletic performance

    Short answer: they can influence how you feel. They do not automatically decide how well you perform. Oestrogen and progesterone act on several systems at once. Here’s the nuance nobody…

  • Menstrual cycle and athletic performance

    21–35 days is the normal range. About 13% land on 28. Let’s kill a myth right away: the “textbook” 28-day cycle is basically a unicorn. Only about 13% of women…

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Fuel your training

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Stay healthy and strong

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See how Nana thinks

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MEET THE EXPERTS

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