How to plan your workouts around your periods – and improve your fitness in the process
Olympic sprinter Beth Dobbin and sports physiologist Esther Goldsmith explain how to use fluctuations in your cycle to your advantage
Beth Dobbin: ‘Managing my period around training takes a lot out of me’
Credit: John Walton/PA
Most women remember their first period. “I think mine was rather iconic,” says British 200m sprinter and Tokyo Olympic hopeful, Beth Dobbin. “A lot of my friends had already started theirs, and stupidly I was desperate for mine because I felt so left out at school. I was 13 and watching the film