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Training With Your Cycle: What We Know, and What We Don't

Cycle-based training is having a moment. The research is thinner and more interesting than the infographics suggest.

Dana Reyes

Movement Coach, Contributor

· 7 min readMembers only

Cycle-syncing charts have spread quickly, and they are usually more confident than the underlying evidence. Studies on phase-based training are small, methods vary widely, and effects are far less uniform across individuals than a four-quadrant graphic implies.

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