Use Case: Bringing Menstrual Cycle Intelligence Into Everyday Performance Workflows

Empowering teams to understand, support, and optimize women athletes by integrating menstrual-cycle tracking directly into iP: Intelligence Platform.

The menstrual cycle is one of the most influential yet often overlooked factors affecting women’s performance, readiness, and recovery.

With iP, teams can capture menstrual cycle data alongside wellness, workload, and screening information—transforming subjective reports into objective intelligence that drives better decisions across the training environment.

The result: a more individualized, informed, and holistic approach to performance and care.

What We Hear from Teams

• “Players tell us they feel different week-to-week, but we haven’t had a structured way to track it.”
•  “We rely on athlete conversations or separate apps, but the information doesn’t flow into our performance planning.”
• “We want to support our women athletes better, but we need the context to adapt training confidently.”
• “We know hormones affect readiness and fatigue, but we’ve never had the data integrated with load and wellness.”

The result: missed context, inconsistent adjustments, and preventable dips in performance or well-being.

The Challenge: Missing Context in Performance Planning

Without menstrual cycle data, staff lack the key physiological context that can explain changes in energy levels, sleep, recovery, soreness, or injury susceptibility.

Manual tracking methods—spreadsheets, standalone apps, or athlete self-reports—often result in incomplete data, limited visibility, and little ability to act on what’s captured.

Teams need a way to:

• Capture menstrual cycle phase and symptoms efficiently, alongside daily wellness and readiness inputs.
• Understand how hormonal fluctuations influence fatigue, workload tolerance, or recovery patterns.
• Integrate cycle context into the same tools already used for training design and performance analysis.

iP: Intelligence Platform brings that missing piece into focus—securely and systematically.

The Solution: Turning Awareness Into Action

iP: Intelligence Platform brings menstrual cycle tracking into the same unified environment teams already use for daily performance workflows. Instead of relying on standalone apps, disconnected trackers, or informal conversations, menstrual cycle information becomes structured, centralized, and connected to the broader performance picture.

Athletes record menstrual cycle details through secure, easy-to-use Forms in the Kitman Labs Athlete App. Once collected, this information flows directly into iP, where the Performance Optimization Solution in iP places it in context—alongside workload, wellness, readiness, strength, and screening data—to help staff make more informed decisions about training, recovery, and support.

For organizations that also use the Performance Medicine Solution, menstrual cycle trends can provide additional clinical context over time, helping staff understand patterns related to injury, fatigue, and overall health and ensuring a more holistic view of each woman athlete.

What You Can Do in iP: Intelligence Platform

Collect and Centralize Menstrual Cycle Data

• Use flexible Forms in the Kitman Labs Athlete App to capture menstrual cycle phase and symptoms such as pain, fatigue, mood changes, bloating, or sleep disruption.
• All information syncs instantly to each athlete’s profile in iP—no duplicate tracking or external apps required.

Layer Cycle Insights Into Performance and Readiness Data

In the Analysis area, overlay menstrual cycle information with:

• Workload metrics
• Wellness trends
• Strength and power outputs
• Screening results
• Readiness scores

Spot patterns that may influence fatigue, movement quality, or performance capacity.

Adapt Training and Recovery With Confidence

Use menstrual cycle insights to make informed adjustments to:

• Conditioning intensity
• Strength and power programming
• Warm-ups and mobility work
• Recovery modalities and rest planning

Support athletes proactively during higher-symptom phases and optimize training during peak physiological windows.

Strengthen Communication and Athlete Ownership

• Normalize and facilitate conversations around menstrual health by giving athletes a structured way to share how they feel—and giving staff objective context to guide decisions and tailor support.
• Provide athletes with the ability to access and export their menstrual-cycle information, giving them personal records they can share with external healthcare providers—supporting medical conversations, advocacy, and long-term health decisions.

Identify Long-Term Trends and Health Signals

• Monitor cycle consistency, symptom patterns, and correlations to performance patterns or potential injury risk over time.
• For clubs using the Performance Medicine Solution, menstrual cycle information can be cross-referenced with medical documentation—adding context to injury discussions, treatment planning, and long-term health monitoring.
  
  
  

The Results: Smarter Training, Stronger Support

By integrating menstrual cycle data into iP, teams can:

• Personalize training and recovery strategies based on each athlete’s physiology.
• Identify meaningful links between cycle phase, readiness, and performance output.
• Detect early warning signs of stress, overload, or potential health concerns.
• Strengthen communication and trust through structured, supportive workflows.
• Combine cycle insights with load, wellness, and medical data for the most complete picture of athlete readiness.
  
  

This approach helps address one of the major gaps highlighted in a research study from the Performance Intelligence Research Initiative (PIRI): the lack of infrastructure to capture and use menstrual-cycle information in daily performance decision-making. The study outlines seven pillars required for a truly Female Athlete Supportive Environment (FASE).

You can download the free study to explore the full findings and recommendations.

Watch Menstrual Cycle Tracking in iP