⸻ Female Performance Nutrition

Female physiology is different -
and working with it changes how you perform.

Most sports nutrition advice isn't built for female physiology. This is.

For women’s teams, clubs, and individual athletes -
from recreational to competitive level.


For teams & clubs

WORKSHOP, SQUAD & GROUP SESSIONS

For individual athletes

Female Athlete Mapping Session

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8+ years supporting female athletes through training, recovery & physiology.

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⸻ Why this matters

Women's bodies don't follow a fixed, linear pattern - they change across the cycle.

Energy, recovery, and performance naturally fluctuate across the month. But most sports nutrition advice is built around a consistent, day-to-day model - which doesn't reflect how female physiology actually works.

This is where my approach is different. Nutrition is aligned with how your body is actually functioning - not the average male athlete it was modelled on.

A diagram of the menstrual cycle with four phases: menstrual, follicular, ovulatory, and luteal, each with a brief description emphasizing the physiological functions and characteristics of each phase.
  • Cycle-related changes in energy and performance

  • Conditions such as PCOS, endometriosis, or hypothalamic amenorrhea

  • Periods of higher stress or reduced recovery capacity

⸻ The Four Phases

Your physiology shifts across the cycle. Your nutrition should too.

A simplified view of how energy systems, recovery capacity, and metabolic demands change month to month - and where nutrition strategy meets each phase.

01

Menstrual

Days 1–5

Iron, recovery, gentle reload.

Energy can dip and inflammation may rise. Nutritional focus shifts to iron status, anti-inflammatory intake, and allowing recovery to lead.


Focus

Replenish & recover

02

Follicular

Days 6–13

Strength, output, and capacity rise.

Estrogen climbs - alongside it, insulin sensitivity, recovery capacity, and tolerance for intensity. A natural window for higher load and performance work.


Focus

Train load & build

03

Ovulatory

Days 14-16

Peak performance window.

Strength, speed, and coordination often peak. Nutrition supports the shift - adequate carbohydrate, protein timing, and hydration to capitalise on output.


Focus

Performance & competition

04

Luteal

Days 17–28

Higher metabolic demand.

Body temperature rises, calorie requirements increase, and recovery often takes longer. Carbohydrate, protein, and magnesium needs all shift upward.


Focus

Fuel & stabilise

This is the layer that most sports nutrition advice misses entirely.

⸻ Take the next step

If this already feels different to what you've tried before

Choose the path that fits where you are right now.

For teams & clubs

Enquire about a session for your team or club.

Workshops, live online sessions, small-group formats, or interactive Q&A's - tailored to your squad's training calendar and the specific questions your athletes are asking.

For individual athletes

Book a Female Athlete Mapping Session.

A structured 1:1 session to understand your energy, performance, and physiology - and a clear, practical view of what to do next. Built around your training and goals.

⸻ What this helps with

Practical, clear, and directly relevant to your training.

Designed to help athletes and teams operate with more consistency and less guesswork.

01

Fuel for more consistent energy

Stable output across training blocks - instead of the highs and crashes most athletes accept as normal.

02

Understand hormones & performance

How cycle phases, stress hormones, and recovery hormones shape what you can ask of your body.

03

Reduce dips, crashes, fluctuations

Smoother day-to-day energy without overcomplicating the food, the supplements, or the protocols.

04

Improve recovery, simply

Recovery built into how you fuel - not bolted on as another routine to manage on top of training.

05

Realistic strategies around competition

Practical fuelling and recovery decisions for the days that matter most - without overhauling your routine.

⸻ About Eva

Where sports nutrition meets a systems-based understanding of female physiology.

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I work with women to understand how their bodies are functioning - not just at a surface level, but across the systems that influence energy, hormones, and performance.

SENr
Sport & Exercise Nutrition Register Recognising advanced, evidence-based practice in sport and exercise nutrition.
BANT
British Association for Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine Functional medicine-trained nutritional therapist.

My work combines sports nutrition with a systems-based understanding of female physiology - so recommendations are based on how the body actually functions, not generic guidelines.


8+

6

YEARS IN PRACTICE

REGISTERED BODIES

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SPORTS NUTRITION

⸻ Session Format

Flexible support for teams and individual athletes.

Sessions can be tailored depending on your club, schedule, or individual needs.

For Teams & Clubs

Bring it into your squad, group, or coaching staff.

Built around how the team trains, not generic templates.

  • In-person workshops

  • Live online sessions

  • Small group or squad-based sessions

  • Interactive Q&A and discussion sessions

For Individual Athletes

A focused 1:1 process built around your physiology.

Personalised to your training, recovery, and hormonal context.

  • 1:1 consultations

  • Personalised nutrition & performance support

  • Ongoing programmes for training & recovery

  • Hormonal health integration

⸻ Personalised support & testing

For individual athletes, your data can be a key part of improving performance.

Where appropriate, I offer more in-depth support through functional testing - used selectively, not routinely.

  • Functional hormone testing

  • Blood work analysis

  • Review of existing test results

  • Targeted testing where needed

This level of support is typically used within 1:1 work.

WHY THIS MATTERS

This allows us to:

  • Identify what's actually driving symptoms
  • Avoid unnecessary or generic interventions
  • Build a more precise, personalised approach
  • Support performance, recovery, and long-term health

"Without this insight, support often becomes trial and error - and you're left chasing symptoms instead of understanding them."

⸻ Why this is different

How this compares to generic sports nutrition.

Both approaches sound similar on the surface. They're built on different assumptions.

Most generic advice

Built on a male, linear physiology model.

  • Assumes day-to-day consistency

  • Treats hormones as background noise

  • Generic macros & calorie targets

  • Symptoms managed in isolation

  • Recovery treated the same all month

  • One protocol for all stages of training

This approach

Designed around female physiology and how it actually behaves.

  • Accounts for cyclical fluctuation

  • Hormones treated as central, not peripheral

  • Fuelling adapts to phase & training load

  • Symptoms read as system signals

  • Recovery strategy shifts with physiology

  • Considers stress load, gut, thyroid & metabolism together

⸻ For individual athletes

If you're looking for more personalised support…

Start with a focused 1:1 session to map what's actually going on - and what to do next.

A structured 1:1 session · Clear direction

⸻ Before working together

Questions female athletes often ask.

  • No - but it helps. If you don't already track, we'll start by gathering enough information to understand your patterns. The work doesn't depend on perfect data; it depends on us understanding what your body is actually doing.

  • Yes. Workshops are routinely scheduled around pre-season, in-season, and competition phases. The content adapts too - pre-season focuses on capacity, in-season on consistency and recovery, and around competition we focus on practical fuelling decisions.

  • Yes, but differently. Hormonal contraception changes the pattern, and we account for that. The approach is still about working with your physiology as it actually is - not as a textbook model assumes it should be.

  • No. The work is for women who train - recreationally or competitively. The approach is the same; the application is personal. If you train with intent and want your body to respond to it properly, this is for you.

  • A team workshop teaches the principles to a squad - practical, applied, and built around the questions your athletes are asking. A 1:1 mapping session is personalised, with deeper assessment and individual direction. Many athletes do both.

  • No. The work is about understanding what your body actually needs - usually that means fuelling more intelligently, not less. Supplements are used selectively and only where there's a clear reason for them.

⸻ Choose the right next step

Two ways to bring this work into your training.

Whether you're leading a team or training as an individual - the framework is the same. The format adapts.

For Teams & Clubs

Bring this into your club or team with a tailored session.

In-person workshops, live online sessions, and squad-based formats - built around how your athletes actually train.

For Individual Athletes

Understand your energy, performance & physiology in detail.

A structured 1:1 session to assess what's actually happening in your body - and what to focus on next.