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Integrated Performance Training's Podcast
Mélanie Pauli: what you need to know when you coach female athletes.
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Integrated Performance Training
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Season 1
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Episode 8
Mélanie is head of athletics for the women soccer team of the Swiss national team.
Here were the topics we discussed:
- difference in approach between coaching female or male players
- menstrual cycle:
- difference in reactions of players
- difference in performance in different phases of the cycle
- 'the cycle as a free monitoring tool'
- injury risk in different phases of the cycle
- inflammation during end of luteal phase
- adjusting prehab exercises per phase
- still a taboo for some athletes
- nutrition intake in female athletes
- application for tracking the cycle