In one of the many videos circulating on social networks, a woman shows a color-coded menstrual cycle chart. Different physical activities are assigned to each phase of the cycle.
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“When you are bleeding, choose steady pace running, pilates, barre workouts, walking, or rest,” she advises.
There are thousands of such posts on TikTok and Instagram. They suggest women change the intensity of their workouts depending on the stage of the menstrual cycle. This trend has become so popular that since 2022, Google searches for this practice under its English name have increased by 740%, and TikTok has more than 55 thousand videos dedicated to this topic.
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However, the majority of such recommendations are published by fitness and healthy lifestyle content creators, not doctors or scientists.
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