Effect of menstrual cycle and contraceptive pill phase on aspects of exercise physiology and athletic performance in female athletes: protocol for the Feminae international multisite innovative project

Elliott Sale, Kirsty J ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1122-5099, Flood, Tessa R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8897-0957, Arent, Shawn M, Dolan, Eimear, Saunders, Bryan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0995-9077, Hansen, Mette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9383-8202, Ihalainen, Johanna K, Mikkonen, Ritva S, Minahan, Clare, Thornton, Jane S ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3519-7101, Ackerman, Kathryn E, Lebrun, Constance M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7408-4521, Sale, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5816-4169, Stellingwerff, Trent, Swinton, Paul A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9663-0696 and Hackney, Anthony C (2023) Effect of menstrual cycle and contraceptive pill phase on aspects of exercise physiology and athletic performance in female athletes: protocol for the Feminae international multisite innovative project. BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine, 9 (4). e001814. ISSN 2055-7647

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Abstract

The idiom € more high-quality research is needed' has become the slogan for sport and exercise physiology-based research in female athletes. However, in most instances, it is challenging to address this gap of high-quality research in elite female athletes at a single study site due to challenges in recruiting enough participants with numerous menstrual cycle and contraceptive pill permutations. Accordingly, we have assembled an international multisite team to undertake an innovative project for female athletes, which investigates the effects of changes in endogenous and exogenous oestrogen and progesterone/progestins across the menstrual cycle and in response to second-generation combined monophasic contraceptive pill use, on aspects of exercise physiology and athletic performance. This project will employ the current gold-standard methodologies in this area, resulting in an adequately powered dataset. This protocol paper describes the consortium-based approach we will undertake during this study.

Item Type:	Article (Article)
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	14 Dec 2023 15:59
Publisher:	BMJ
Additional Information:	© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
Divisions:	Faculties > Science and Engineering
Subject terms:	Female, Performance, Physiology, 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences
Data Access Statement:	No data are available.
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/633513
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2023-001814
ISSN	2055-7647
e-ISSN	2055-7647

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