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2025 Gift Guide for Athletes
It’s that time of year again: Our gift guides for every athlete in your life! This year, we’ve created one master list for cyclists, runners, and really, any athletic person in your life. Personally, we’re a travel-heavy runner/cyclist duo who do a very light version...
What’s Your Minimum Viable Training Dose?
I’ve always been a fan of the ‘do what you can with what you have’ mentality when it comes to training. Airport in the morning? Okay, my morning yoga might get truncated, or, in some situations, skipped altogether because it’s a 4AM wakeup. But I’ll be honest, my...
How Marley Blonsky is Getting All Bodies on Bikes
In this episode of The Consummate Athlete Podcast, Molly sat down with All Bodies on Bikes co-founder Marley Blonsky in Bentonville around Big Sugar to explore how cycling can become truly inclusive for riders of all sizes. They discuss building body-size-inclusive...
Training
Can You Train Year-Round for Cycling?
One question we get a lot is, "how do people train in the winter for cycling?" This is interesting because we also frequently get the inverse question of "how you train for cycling in the summer?" If you are already and avid cyclist the answers may seem obvious to you...
What I’m Doing for Ankle Sprain Recovery—and What I’m Learning
After my crash at Leadville, my sprained ankle was in bad shape. But luckily, I’ve been recovering really well! This is a combination of luck and truly concerted effort. Here’s what I’ve been up to: Rest Was it tempting to jump on the bike or start doing upper body...
What Experts Can Help Me Get Faster?
It takes a village to build an optimized athlete—and today, we're looking at the laundry list of experts who can all play a part in making you faster and stronger on the bike or run, or whatever your sport may be. You may want to enlist the help of all of these...
Racing
Cycling Training & Racing Inside – Jim Rutberg
Jim Rutberg joins us to for a second round on 'Ride Inside" that is about cycling indoors. Jim tackles listener questions from the episode with his co-author Joe Friel back a few episodes. We cover indoor-bike fit, pedal-stroke, cooling, and training for E-Racing Get...
Mountain Bike Racing & Confidence – Haley Smith
Professional Mountain Biker Haley Smith races for Norco. She discusses building confidence and racing at the top of the World Cup Cross-Country Mountain Bike Series. Links Follow Haley Smith on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/haleyhuntersmith/?hl=en Post...
Mountain Bike Racing & Parenting – Sonya Looney
Sonya Loney tells us about becoming a parent and how this changed her view on work, training, and life. Check out her Podcast, The Sonya Looney Show. Support the show a) Tweet, Share, Gram or message an episode or post you like! b) Rate & review on your preferred...
Cross-Training
Yoga Teacher Training — Some Thoughts from the Halfway Point!
I was super stoked to start yoga teacher training at YogaSpace in Toronto back in March, and I'm at the halfway point of the program, so I figured I'd give everyone a bit of an update as to how it's going. So far, so good is the short answer. But who wants short...
Stretch It Out: Super Quick, Easy Morning Yoga Routine (Video)
If you guys listened to this week's podcast, you know I love a good quick yoga routine in the morning for getting my day (and training, as an athlete) started on the right foot... And since I'm starting yoga teacher training tomorrow (!!!), I wanted to share one of...
Learning to Jump bikes, yoga, online courses – Ryan Leech
Trials, MTB, Bike Skills, Skills, Acquisition, Online Courses, Business, Coaching, Yoga Ryan Leech joins us for a 2nd time today to talk about learning to jump a bike, new updates to his skills website (www.ryanleech.com), and what life is like after trials shows. We...
Mindset
The Sneaky Lifestyle Creep of “Hard Things” and “Big Scary Goals”
This is a repost from 2021—but it’s as relevant today as it was back then as I think about what’s coming next for me! Do I return to Leadville? Look at 200 milers instead? Think UTMB? Or it is OK to go “shorter?” You may remember last week when we talked about our...
Handling the Ghosts of Goal Setting
When we checked out of our hotel at Leadville, the last thing I did was take down the BELIEVE sign I’d hung on the bathroom mirror. (A nod to Ted Lasso, if you haven’t watched it.) It felt… well, it felt crappy, to be honest. Obviously, regardless of the race outcome,...
What Burdens Are You Placing On Your Future Self
I was reading a fairly cheesy productivity book the other day, and listening to a similarly cheesy podcast, and by happenstance, both brought up the same topic: the burdens that we place on our future self. Both were talking about procrastination and the basic concept...
Nutrition
What You Need to Know About Portion Size
When I first got into nutrition, the portion size stuff really threw me. Deck of cards equals protein, dice is fat? As someone who hates board games, I find this annoying. So, I really love the move towards using your hand as your guide to portion size, and I find...
Nutrition Habits + Behavior Change: Molly’s (Embarrassing) Case Study
Nutrition habits are, in my opinion, the hardest ones to change. If you meet us now, you might assume that we've both always been hyper-athletic. I know that for me, my least favorite origin story is hearing about how someone played a lot of sports in their youth....
Sports Nutrition and All About Carbs with Dietitian Gemma Sampson
We just had sports dietitian Gemma Sampson on The Consummate Athlete Podcast—and in person, we had her cooking and chatting at our women's gravel camp we just finished hosting. This is one of my favorite nutrition episodes because we go from pretty broad topics to...
Lifestyle
Tips for Camping and Hiking with a Small Dog or Puppy
We recently brought our mini-dachshund DW on a camping and 80-kilometer hiking trip and I'll be honest, I was a little nervous going in. Before you @ us, don't worry: He was in a backpack and nice and comfy 90% of the hiking, though he did get out and absolutely crush...
Where We’re At 3 Months Into Lockdown
I'm pretty excited writing this because here in Ontario, our lockdown is finally starting to ease up, with patios for restaurants now open and gatherings of 10 now allowed. But that *just* happened. So, what have we been up to and what have we learned? We decided to...
Collingwood Rogers Customers can Watch Our Virtual “How To Be Outside” on Cable!
If you live in Collingwood, Ontario, you can watch the virtual sneak peek of the How to be Outside Speaker Series with airtimes thru to June 6th on Rogers Collingwood 53! Needless to say, being on public access here in town makes me feel like this: But seriously, it...
Women Specific
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Gear
E-Bikes are Part of a Healthy Aging Strategy
We wanted to pose a question today: What if electric bikes (e-bikes) and electric mountain bikes (e-MTB) could keep you and your friends riding and moving in nature for many more years, compared to deciding you'll never use one? Hear us out! You do not NEED to get an...
5 Ways to Organize Your Racing and Training Gear and Spring Clean for Cyclists
Organizing + Optimizing Your Spring Training “Disorder is our worst enemy.” —Greek poet Hesiod, 700 B.C. I saw this quote in a course that I'm taking on stress, sleep and resilience and it stuck in my head. Spring is (sort of) here again, and that means spring...
March Favorites: Chia Seeds, Castor Oil, the Power of Nature + More!
We're back with a smattering of March favorites! Chia Seed Pudding I love chia seeds from a gut health/digestion perspective AND a taste perspective, but I always forget about them. They're such an easy way to add good Omega fatty acids to your diet, they're super...
Videos
New “Anywhere” Strength Workout for Endurance Athletes—Video
We're huge fans of using whatever is around you for a strength workout—as regular travelers, finding gym time can be difficult, so while I love to lift heavy weights when I can, most of my workouts are done with body weight and maybe a prop or two. So, Peter—a coach...
New Anywhere Core Video
Check out this video you can use while out on runs, rides or for "your morning core routine"
How to Do a Cycling Warmup
This is an exchange I had with a client where he was curious as to the variables and practices of warming up. I thought that this alphabetized thought process may be useful to you as well. It is a document that I will continue to edit as questions and experiences...