Understanding the menstrual cycle, oral contraception, and injury risk in female athletes with Georgie Bruinvels (Research Scientist at Orreco)

In this episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast, I am speaking to Research Scientist at Orreco, Dr. Georgie Bruinvels. I am absolutely delighted to get Georgie on the podcast. I did a short interview with Georgie for the PlayerMaker webinar a number of weeks ago which was fantastic so the first thing I did was text her to get her on the podcast. We dived into some really interesting topics around coaching the female athlete and these are topics that need sharing and often demystifying. 

If you enjoyed this episode with Georgie, you may enjoy my podcast with Dawn Scott. 

I hope you enjoy this episode with Georgie Bruinvels.

In this episode we discussed...

• Who is Georgie Bruinvels (background, education & current role)?
• Who are Orreco and the work you guys do?
• Menstrual cycle
  • Breaking down barriers
    • Male coaches
  • Mapping the menstrual cycle
  • Common symptoms
  • Health screening
  • Training adjustments
    • Common misunderstandings
  • Nutrition adjustments during cycle
  • Oral contraception
  • Injury risk increase during various stages of the cycle?

Georgie can be found on Twitter @GBruinvels

This episode of the Pacey Performance Podcast is sponsored by Hawkin Dynamics, the team behind the world's only wireless force plate system. Hawkin Dynamics can be found at hawkindynamics.com and you can follow them on Twitter @hawkindynamics

This episode is also sponsored by IMeasureU. IMeasureU are a world leading inertial platform to precisely quantify body movement and workload metrics in the field. IMeasureU can be found at imeasureu.com and you can follow them on Twitter @imeasureu.

This episode is also sponsored by Omegawave, the only non-invasive readiness technology to assess both brain and heart. Omegawave can be found at omegawave.com and you can follow them on Twitter @omegawave.

This episode is also sponsored by Athlete Monitoring the world’s most comprehensive, versatile and cost-effective Athlete Health & Performance Management platform for elite sports. You can find their website at athletemonitoring.com or on Twitter @athletemonitor

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Enjoy

PP