作者
Kelly Lee McNulty, Kirsty Jayne Elliott-Sale, Eimear Dolan, Paul Alan Swinton, Paul Ansdell, Stuart Goodall, Kevin Thomas, Kirsty Marie Hicks
发表日期
2020/10
来源
Sports medicine
卷号
50
页码范围
1813-1827
出版商
Springer International Publishing
简介
Background
Concentrations of endogenous sex hormones fluctuate across the menstrual cycle (MC), which could have implications for exercise performance in women. At present, data are conflicting, with no consensus on whether exercise performance is affected by MC phase.
Objective
To determine the effects of the MC on exercise performance and provide evidence-based, practical, performance recommendations to eumenorrheic women.
Methods
This review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Four databases were searched for published experimental studies that investigated the effects of the MC on exercise performance, which included at least one outcome measure taken in two or more defined MC phases. All data were meta-analysed using …
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