Female physiology
Training that respects female physiology
Most coaching content is written for the average male athlete and silently assumes that everyone else can use the same recipe. Female athletes have a fundamentally different hormonal landscape, different recovery patterns, different injury risks, and different fueling needs. SportPlan treats those differences as inputs, not afterthoughts.
Training with the menstrual cycle
What changes across follicular, ovulation, luteal and bleed phases — and the small, evidence-based adjustments that actually help. No pseudoscience.
Perimenopause and menopause
How oestrogen and progesterone changes affect endurance, strength, body composition and injury risk — and the training shifts that preserve performance through the transition.
Pregnancy and postpartum return
What you can keep doing, what you should modify, and the realistic timeline for returning to running after birth. Pelvic floor, diastasis recti, breastfeeding — covered honestly.
RED-S (Relative Energy Deficiency)
RED-S — Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport — affects a huge share of competitive female athletes. Recognising it, fixing it, and how it shows up in Garmin HRV and Body Battery data.
Why this hub exists
Female-specific endurance research is still small, but it is growing fast. The published literature on training-around-cycle is now solid enough to make practical recommendations — even though most coaching platforms still ignore it.
SportPlan's adaptation engine takes cycle phase, perimenopausal symptoms, and energy-availability signals as inputs alongside HRV, sleep and load. This hub is the public-facing explanation of how and why.
The content is conservative, evidence-based, and honest about what's known vs unknown. Sports science around female physiology is decades behind male physiology and gaps remain. Where the evidence is thin, we say so.
Related tools and reading
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Educational content based on peer-reviewed sports-medicine literature. Not a substitute for in-person evaluation by a sports physician, gynaecologist, or physiotherapist. Pregnancy and postpartum especially require individual clinical follow-up.
Methodology designed by Ramon Curto, MSc Exercise Physiology
Ramon Curto designed SportPlan's endurance-training methodology from exercise-physiology principles. SportPlan applies it autonomously to the information you enter and the data you choose to connect; it is not ongoing one-to-one coaching or medical care.
Last revised July 2026
- MSc Exercise Physiology
- Endurance-training methodology
- Connected training-data analysis
- Block periodization · Polarized training