Can I workout during my menses?

The best antidote to all your period problems is working out.

Before knowing whether you can do your workout during menses let’s first understand what exactly are menses?

Menses/Menstrual cycle/ Periods is a normal vaginal bleeding that occurs as a part of a woman’s monthly cycle. In normal circumstances every month your body prepares for pregnancy and if no pregnancy occurs the uterus or womb sheds it's lining. Hence,

Menstrual blood = Blood + Tissue from inside the uterus

Menses usually starts between age 11 to 14 and continue till menopause at about age 51.

Experiencing -

- abdominal/pelvic pain

- lower back pain

- bloating and sore breasts

- food cravings (salt and sugar)

- mood swings and irritability

- headache and fatigue

during menstrual cycle is completely normal.

But because of the above mentioned pre-menstrual symptoms women usually tend to avoid doing any kind of workout during their menses. You may have a pre-conceived notion that it will increase your menstrual pain/cramps and blood flow but studies have found that doing regular workout even during your menses actually helps to reduce

- your cramps and menstrual pain.

- will improve your uterus health.

- elevates your mood

- helps to reduce stress, anxiety and depression issues.

- helps to resolve PCOD/PCOS/ thyroid/hormonal imbalance

Things to remember while doing workout during menses

While doing your workout during menses there are certain things that you must keep in mind

• you have to avoid doing upside-down positions

• avoid any kind of high-intensity and strenuous workout (only during most painful days of your menses and not otherwise)

• keep your body hydrated

The bottom line is your workout must be easy, less strenuous and most importantly fun so that you get enough dose of your dopamine to sail through those 5 days!!

After studying women body and working with them for a span of 13 years Pinkfit Dance-Fitness creator Prajakta have designed Pinkfit - a unique dance fitness program especially for woman and the best part about the program is that it has unique fitness techniques and therapies that help in holistic development of women.

Flavours like BellyPop, Bellydance, Hula-hoop, ChairPop etc which works on your abdomen region helps to train your pelvic floor muscles and hence improves your uterus health further helping to resolve PMS symptoms to a great extent.

Pinkfit girls who prior to joining the program, used to complain about not being able to get out of their beds for at-least 1 or 2 days in their period days (because of extreme pain and cramps) were the same girls who are now attending energetic sessions even on their 1st day.

The program has very evidently helped them to reduce their pain (results are visible after attending program for at-least 1-2 months).

We at Pinkfit, feel extremely satisfied when girls having severely irregular menses/PCOD/PCOS issues have their menses regularised naturally within 1-2 months of joining Pinkfit and the prime reason for this are the Pinkfit techniques that helps in balancing women hormones and improves uterus health thus making women disease-free and medicine-free.

We get to hear a lot from Pinkfit girls that they enjoy this one hour so much that it’s their most happiest, stress busting and thoughtless hour of the day which they don’t wish to miss even on the first day of their menses!