Ingy has been coaching women for years. She knows bodies — how they move, how they respond, how they're often pushed past their limits in the name of "discipline."

But before she was anyone's coach, she was a woman searching for period products across borders, rationing tampons like they were luxury goods, and figuring out how to train through a cycle no one around her was talking about.

Sound familiar?

The Tampon Shortage Nobody Talks About

Growing up in Egypt, Ingy learned early that period care wasn't straightforward. Tampons weren't a pharmacy staple — and when Egypt's economic crisis hit, even the imported brands became hard to find and impossible to afford.

So she did what many women in the region do: she asked friends traveling from Dubai, London, anywhere, to bring products back. She ordered in bulk. She planned ahead.

Because when pads were the only option, they weren't working for her.

"I stopped using pads. It was irritating my skin. And when you're coaching all day, it's just not working."

Leggings and pads? For a woman who trains and coaches for a living, it wasn't just uncomfortable — it was unsustainable.

When Your Body Has Its Own Rules

Ingy also shared something more personal: a physical experience she'd quietly dealt with for years.

During stressful moments or long periods of sitting, her flow would slow — almost as if it got "stuck." She'd feel bloated, uncomfortable, in pain — and have to stop everything just to sit down and let her body release.

It was tampons that finally helped.

Not because she'd been told to try them. But because she figured it out herself — through trial, discomfort, and paying close attention to what her body was actually telling her.

That kind of self-knowledge? That's exactly what she brings to her clients.

The Coach Who Trains Like Her Clients Live

Ingy doesn't just design workouts. She tests everything on herself first.

When she gained a few kilos for the first time in her life, she didn't just coach her way through it theoretically. She felt it. She adjusted. She played with the formula — more conditioning here, more walking there — until she found what worked.

"I try my methods on me. I know how it feels. Then I adjust it for my clients."

It's the same philosophy she applies to everything: understand your body, collect data, don't follow someone else's plan if their body isn't your body.

She's vocal about the pressure women face to look a certain way. And she's seen, firsthand, how that pressure doesn't always come from women themselves.

"When I gained weight, I got more male attention. But I was so uncomfortable in my own skin."

More attention. Less comfort. The two don't always go together — and she wants women to know the difference.

Periods Aren't a Problem to Work Around

One of the things Ingy spoke about most clearly was this: women are constantly designing their lives around their periods instead of designing their period care around their lives.

Avoiding workouts. Hiding under baggy T-shirts. Rationing products. Planning trips around a cycle... It doesn't have to be that way.

What you use during your period affects how you feel, how you move, and how you show up — for your clients, your training, your day.

What This Means for You

If you're a woman who moves her body — who trains, coaches, runs, stretches, or just tries to get through a full day without thinking about her period products — you deserve options that actually work with your body.

Not just whatever's available on the shelf.

Take Back Control of Your Period Care

At Adaye, we believe period care should support how you actually live — not get in the way of it.

We've designed our products for women who:

• Move their bodies and need products that move with them
• Have sensitive skin that reacts to synthetic materials
• Want to understand what they're putting in and on their body
• Are done making do with "whatever's available"

No plastics. No toxins. No compromises.

Because your period isn't something to manage around. It's something your products should be designed for.

If This Resonated

Send it to the woman in your life who trains hard and still hasn't found period care that keeps up with her.

Also, you can follow Ingy on Instagram at @ingysweid and check out her REVENGEBODY PROGRAM.