Caffeine linked to miscarriage
Interesting article on Yahoo!... A new study showed that Caffeine consumption by pregnant women can increase the risk of miscarriage. It doesn't matter if the caffeine comes from coffee, tea, soda or ...
Sleep and Your Menstrual Cycle
Many women who suffer from insomnia may actually experience it as a side effect of their menstrual cycle, according to Amy Wolfson, PhD, the author of The Woman's Book of Sleep: A Complete Resource Gu ...
Menstrual Cycle Doesn't Affect Endurance...
I was talking with a female running partner once, and she asked if a woman's menstrual cycle had any effect on racing. Apparently, not much. When an Austrian research team tested 19 eumenorrheic women ...
Discomfort in run up to period
Hello I am wondering if any-one experiences anything similar to myself. 9 days before my period is due I begin to experience abdominal discomfort. It starts with an achey back progressing from small t ...
Weight during period
I have been told that when a woman gets her period it affects her weight. I want to know your thoughts about this, is this going to really affect my weight?---------------------------------------- &l ...
Stretching After Spinning is Important
It is very important to stretch after spinning. Particularly, you need to stretch the hamstrings, quadriceps and shoulders. Most of the time the instructors have a cool down period when you stretch w ...
Eating After Working Out
You’ve probably been told it isn’t a good idea to eat after a workout, but that information is actually wrong. In fact, most bodybuilding and athletic experts recommend eating within 45 to 60 minutes ...
Massage After a Hard Workout
After a race, massages are a great way to get rid of all that 'junk' that accumulates in the muscles and loosen the knots that are starting to form. I'd like to get massages after all my hard workout ...
Workout after back surgery
I would like feedback on good workout (mat, reformer, and cadillac exercises) for someone recovering from microdisectomy (L2/L3). He has completed physical therapy and been cleared for Pilates.