the efa
Women’s Health
Foundations
What you’ll learn
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Build the foundation for understanding female physiology in a coaching context, including hormonal function, variability, adaptation, and how these factors influence training, recovery, and performance across the lifespan.
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Explore the historical, cultural, and societal influences that have shaped our understanding of the menstrual cycle and women's health. Learn why individual variability matters and how to move beyond outdated assumptions.
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Develop the communication skills needed to discuss women's health topics with confidence, professionalism, and care. Learn how to stay within scope, build trust, and navigate sensitive conversations.
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Build confidence in the key terminology, symptoms, and presentations commonly encountered in women's health. Learn what coaches need to recognise, understand, and appropriately refer.
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Understand how hormones function as chemical messengers and influence health, training, recovery, and performance. Learn how hormonal systems interact within the wider physiological picture.
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Explore common women’s health conditions, menstrual dysfunction, low energy availability, RED-S, and the Female Athlete Triad, with a focus on recognition, referral, and coaching within scope
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Understand how menstrual tracking apps, wearables, and digital health tools work, including their limitations, practical use in coaching, and important considerations around privacy and client data.
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Apply behaviour change frameworks, habit strategies, and coaching tools to support long-term adherence, realistic lifestyle change, and sustainable client progress.
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Explore how cardiovascular training, strength, power, and daily movement contribute to women's health and performance. Learn how to structure and adapt training across different goals, life stages, and individual needs.
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Understand the role of nutrition, recovery, and energy availability in female health and performance, including how to recognise signs of under-fuelling and support clients within scope.
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Explore pelvic floor anatomy, function, common signs of dysfunction, and how to integrate pelvic floor considerations into movement, programming, and appropriate referral pathways.
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Understand key hormonal transitions across the female lifespan, including reproductive years, hormonal contraception, pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause.
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Learn how to interpret client data, identify meaningful patterns, distinguish useful information from noise, and make informed coaching decisions without overreacting to single data points.
Women’s health
Foundations
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The foundations of women's health coaching. Build your women's health knowledge and learn how to apply it to informed coaching decisions, client support, and the realities of working with women across different life stages.