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The fact that menstruation is a necessary precondition of human procreation is a biological truth and has never been disputed or debated but how ironical it is that it has been treated as a matter of shame be men and women alike across all cultures, societies and religions and social stigma is attached to menstruating women. They were restrained from attending places of worship, performing holy rituals, doing routine household chores especially cooking and at the same time they were subjected to suffer isolation and even humiliation at times. Even the face of diversified social awareness towardsmost of the sensitive female issues only a little headway is made in changingthe general mind set of the people and treating menstruation as a normal biological activity. Fortunately we have passed the era when menstruation are less than positive. All one has to do is to consider the euphemism we use to describe menstruation to realizethat rather than talking freely about menses use get ‘sick' , ‘the curse’,’our period’ , ‘the monthlies ', etc . All those move to the ‘sickness' , to the burden or to the uncomfortable nuisance of menstruation . So today’swomen’ even though knowing that menstruation is not physically or psychologically capacitating, has inherited modern version of ancient myths, taboos and superstition. Consequently, it seems that a menstruatinggirl may even be ‘ excused ' from the physical education classes or sports activities at schools and colleges. A great number of clinical and experimental investigation has felt with menstrual function in women till now. Some of these studies have revealed interesting interrelationship between exercise and menstrual function. The objective of those study, also is explore the question: how does the menstruation cycle effect exercise, physical performance, sports activities etc.

ShivangiBidua studied the comparison of speed ability between football and hockey female players during menstruating phase . The 30 mts flying start test was used to assess the speed between football and hockey players. The results of the study shows that the hockey players having good speed compare to the football players during the phase of mensuration.*1

The relationship between performance variation of females and phases of there Menstrual cycles was investigated. Sixteen college women,18-22 years of age free from any acknowledgement menstrual disorders, performed four exercise test of selected times during their Menstrual cycle. Statistical analysis with the Krushalwellis one way ANOVA, and Friendmen,two way ANOVA related the variations in performances in the 12 minutes run/walk , maximum oxygen consumption,the 600 yards run walk and 1.5 mile run walk were not significantly related to phases in the Menstrual cycle . These findings are in support of previous investigators.*2

AmitaJain, studied to access the knowledge, practice, and perception on menstruation, to educate adolescent girls regarding Menstrual hygiene management and to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention program through post test.The study findings suggest Menstrual health education including better accessibility and availability to sanitary absorbents and facilities helps in improving menstrual hygiene and changing the behavior among adolescent school girls of rural Lucknow.*3

Martin studied metabolic and cardio – respiratory responses to exercise in nine non athletes and eight Ohio State University athletes during three menstrual phases represented by 3, Day 13, and the 7^thday following ovulation. No significant differences were found within the three menstrual phases at rest, during submaximal walking , maximal running, or recovery in the untrained group. Although there was a significantly higher hematocrit value in the trained group during the post Menstrual phase, this did not occur in the untrained group, nor was it accompanied by changes in hemoglobin values. The trained group also demonstrated a higher oxygen uptake during the post Menstrual phase during the walking part of the test. This difference did not persist during maximal running because the variations did not occur in both groups and disappeared with more strenuous exercise. Martin minimized the significance of the few changes seen. He stated, “It is responsible to assume that there is little influence on maximal performance due to cycle variation in any of the there phases of the menstrual cycle.” *4

Menstrual dysfunction is a common complaint amongst adolescent girls. An Australian cross- sectional study showed that approximately 25% of girls had significant Menstrual dysfunction affecting life activities and resulting in school absence*5

Statement of the problem: The statement of the study was to determine the effect of menstrual cycle on the performance of Sprint ability of women athletes.

Variable Source of variance dfSSMSS F-ratio_________________________________________________________________________

BG 2264.66              132.33

SprintAbility________________________________________________________               2.00

Significant at .05 level= 3.09

1. BiduaShivangiand Das Anindita, “ International Multilingual Refereed journal in Towards Sustainable Women Health: Decoding the Menstruation Taboo , “ special issue, February – 2019 : pg.098 – 0101. 2. P.K.Pande and L.C. Gupta , Outline Of Sports Medicine( New Delhi : J.B. Medical Publishers (pLtd, 1996),p.409. 3. Jain Amita, “ Decoding Menstrual Taboos in India: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions ( DrGunjanShahi& Uma Singh ,2020 ) p. 23 “ 4. F.L.Martin (1976), Effect of the Menstrual Cycle on Metabolic and Cardio – respiratory Responses,” unpublished Dissertation, Ohio State University , Columbus ,Ohio ,cited by Christine L.Wells, Women Sports and Performance ( Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics Publishers,1985),p.74. 5. parker M, Sneddon A, Arbon P: The Menstrual disorders of teenagers (MDOT) study: determining typical menstrual pattern and Menstrual disturbance in a large population based study of Australian teenagers. BJOG 2010;117:185-192. 6. H. Harrison Clarke, Application of Measurement in Physical Education ( Englewood Cliffs,N.J.: Prentice Hall Inc.,1976), p 173.