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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...
The Black Friday Deals Athletes Should Shop
If you’re shopping up a storm this weekend for gifts for other athletes or stocking up for yourself (no judgment), here are our favorite sales. In general, we love Black Friday for getting electronics and cycling gear, especially for your indoor trainer setup and...
Training
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...
Cyclocross Race Day Planner – Free Download!
Get ready to have the best season ever with our free Cyclocross Race Day Planner that helps you schedule out your day, pack the right clothing and gear for the weather, and have the most optimal warm up, cool down and recovery so that you can get back to it for Day 2!...
Top 5 Cyclocross Strength Exercises
Cyclocross is a demanding sport because it requires a variety of full body movements off-the bike including lifting and rotation. There are several exercises that can be included to ensure you have movement skill and capacity to perform in each race this season. Don't...
Racing
Balancing Work and Racing – Kristen Faulkner
Professional Road Racer and Venture Capitalist Kristen Faulkner discusses how she balances two high demand careers. Busy Consummate Athletes will appreciate her strategies for staying fit and performing at work and on the bike. Follow Kristen Faulkner on Twitter...
Off-Season – When Racing is Done
Sometime between August and December cyclists will finish a competitive season ... or it will just snow a lot and make cycling in your main-discipline all but impossible. The off-season happens in around that period of time and how you handle that off-season can set...
Necessary Come-Down Periods in Training, Racing + Work
For me, getting through my first race and the book launch has led to a pretty big come-down the last couple of weeks. While I'm still plugging away at work and training, I definitely needed the time at home just coming back to some level of homeostasis... That's meant...
Cross-Training
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Mindset
Struggling to Make Time to Train? 5 Tips from a Productivity Expert
We talk a lot about being motivated to train, but the reality is that most of us are likely motivated, but time-starved. We have massive to-do lists in all areas of life (work, training, life, family, friends, side hustles, other hobbies, etc.) and that can make...
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up… Your Athletic Gear
When it comes to establishing strong training routines, one of the best ways to do it is to have your gear easier to access, in good working condition, and actually gear/clothing that you enjoy using. So, here's what you need to make the life-changing magic of tidying...
Reframing Goals (Midway Through an Event)
This original post is from 2021, but it’s one I come back to often. Since then, I’ve had one race where running through these questions did lead to a drop out for health reasons, but more often than not, going through them has led to a stronger finish than I may have...
Nutrition
Sports Nutrition & Carbs with Dietitian Gemma Sampson
Gemma Sampson is an Advanced Sports Dietitian working with elite and amateur cyclists, triathletes and runners. She discusses several common nutrition questions and expands on carbs and what athletes know (or think they know) about carbs (the focus of her Ph.D.!)...
Athlete Contemplating an Elimination Diet? What You Need to Know
Elimination diets are enticing: Do this for 30 days and all your problems will be solved, right? As an athlete, elimination diets are tricky at best, dangerous at worst, and there's a whole lot of "what you need to know" in the middle. Elimination diets are tempting,...
6 Kitchen Tools That Make It Easier to Eat Smart
At home, our kitchen is firmly in "OK" territory when it comes to how kitted out we are. We're always evolving it, and one benefit to traveling and staying at a ton of different places is that it really helps you figure out what exactly works for you in the kitchen....
Lifestyle
How To Be Outside Speaker Series Virtual Summit – VIDEO
Check out this 60-minute preview of what’s coming at the How To Be Outside Speaker Series when we can all congregate in real life in Fall 2020 in Collingwood, ON. (See the full speaker list and get the details here!) https://youtu.be/yAzQcwl_xq8 The four speakers for...
Join the #ConsummateAthleteParty from May 15-25!
In celebration of spring, warmer weather, trails opening up and staying active, we wanted to host a virtual Consummate Athlete Party. From May 15 to 25th, we want you to do as many activities as possible, from your normal endurance activities like riding and running...
How To Be Outside Speaker Series
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19. NEW DATE 10/9/2020 Free How to Be Outside Virtual Summit Planned for 4/18 at 8PM, details here Shoulder season in Ontario can be grim, so let's liven it up with this series of talks that will serve as the unofficial kickoff to the winter...
Women Specific
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Gear
Our Top 5 February Favorites
Welcome back to our monthly roundup of favorite snacks, gear, articles, books, podcasts, and other random things we're loving here at Consummate Athlete HQ this month! Consummate Athlete Top 5 Favorites: February Grilled cheese / quesadillas with halloumi cheese with...
Tips for Setting Up Your New Run Watch / Cycling Computer (Without Wrecking Your Day)
Embarrassingly, I expend a lot of emotional and mental energy being super pissed at my training equipment. Specifically, on new watch day/week. I recently bought a new running watch (the Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar) since my old watch was getting a little, well,...
5 Things That Are Making My Life Better – January 2024
I've been wanting to bring back this section for a while... we've had it in plenty of iterations over the years, but basically, I wanted to have a monthly column that's just stuff we're into. It might be gear, it might be food, it might be an article we read or music...
Videos
The Best Endurance Sports Video Blogs
This article for Outside mag on sports info video channels was super fun to research, because who doesn't love watching a bunch of how-to videos and getting amazing tips and advice as part of a day's work? I looked at a bunch of video channels that I remembered...
How to Fuel for Ironman: Video
I already chatted about Ironman nutrition over here a couple weeks ago, but I'm working on some new video content and wanted to share my fueling story, but in a different way. So if you're more of a video watcher/listener, check this out to learn how I fueled before,...
Great 35 Min Yoga routine for Cyclists
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiBVCjxL5nI] Check out the post on http://cyclingmagazine.ca/spotlight/yoga-cyclists-strength-flexibility-session/Canadian Cycling Magazine HERE Check out Kula in Toronto and Oakville Ontario