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Is Aspirational Clutter Slowing Down Your Training?
Whether we're talking about physical or mental aspirational clutter, you might be making your training harder—or at least, much more crowded—if you're not occasionally clearing out the gear or the goals that you've set for some idealized future version of yourself....
What to Do When You Can’t Follow Your Training Plan or Do Your Planned Workout
Modifying workouts is tricky business—so much so that a question around it comes up almost monthly on the podcast. Should you skip, swap, shift, substitute or shorten your workout? Or forget about the workout altogether and just do something? We chatted about this on...
Bike Fitting with Tim Plunkett
For this week's episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, Molly talks to Bike Fitter Tim Plunkett of Speed River Bicycle in Guelph, Ontario about bike fitting. Topics include pressure mapping (your butt!), insoles, signs you need a bike fit, signs you need a new bike...
Training
2023 Bike Packing Ontario Update
Our friend bike packing extraordinaire (and Registered Dietician!) Matt Kadey sent along some great update for the 2023 Bike Packing season -- What events will you be at? What routes will you do? Don't overlook the couple of recipes for home made fuel AND the gravel...
Lifting Heavy $hit with Dr. Stacy Sims
Dr. Stacy Sims returns for a 3rd episode with us! Stacy is one of our most popular guests on the show and for good reason. Her mission is to help women better understand their bodies and elevate them in research, science, sport, and ultimately, in life. The ideas...
Reaching Goals in 2023
Molly and Peter discuss goal setting and a few different ways to think about goals ranging from setting 'intentions' to more formal or specific methods. We discuss Dan John's 5 x 2 frame work and how it might apply to an endurance athletes season and typical training...
Racing
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Mindset
Consider Intentions Over Resolutions This Year
Everyone knows I (Molly) love writing about new years, new yous, and all things goal-setting and resolution-related. This year, for Canadian Cycling, I had a bit of a different idea for type-A athletes. Instead of thinking about really specific resolutions in such a...
Best Books to Give to the Athlete in Your Life This Holiday Season
You can't beat a book for a great gift for the athlete in your life—and let's be honest, it's the best option for when you've left shopping until the last minute. As a complete bookworm, I consider books to be the most thoughtful present while still being inexpensive...
Talking Addition Versus Subtraction Habits in “Becoming A Consummate Athlete”
In our new book, Becoming A Consummate Athlete, we talk about a bunch of different habits that can help you make your lifestyle and your training work smoother together so you get results without adding more training hours. (You can read the full table of contents to...
Nutrition
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Lifestyle
Surviving Travel, Staying Fit
I've been, as you may have guessed, traveling a lot this season. And the past two years. And the past decade. And with travel comes the constant struggle to stay somewhat in shape—or at least, not go too crazy on the frites on days I'm sitting around in airports. That...
The #NomadLife: What People Think, and What Matters
When I explain to people what I do, normally there are two reactions: 1) "I could never travel that much, how do you manage?" or 2) "That sounds amazing!" And both are completely reasonable responses to the laundry list of different jobs and roles, and where I go for...
24 Hours with a Turned-Off Phone—What I Learned
Earlier this month, I was pretty cracked from a whole lot of travel, a whole lot of keeping up with a bunch of different jobs, and just in need of disconnecting a little from my work life, which spills so far over into my personal life—especially since Peter and I do...
Women Specific
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Gear
New Consummate Athlete Gear in the SHOP!
To celebrate the launch of our new book in a couple of weeks (Becoming A Consummate Athlete!), we've added some new designs to the Consummate Athlete Shop page + we wanted to share a few of our personal favorites. If you love the podcast + the idea of living an...
Minimalist Bikepacking: The Gear Trades I’d Make
I recently went on an awesome bikepacking and trail running adventure, where we rode 100 miles, stayed in a motel, ran a trail marathon, then rode back home the next day, another 100 miles. We traveled light since we were staying in a hotel, and honestly, if I was to...
“Saddle, Sore: Ride Comfortable, Ride Happy” is $3.99 on Kindle This Week
There are so many new cyclists out there lately that I wanted to make sure it was easy to access information about comfortable, happy riding... So, from October 8 to October 15, the Kindle version of my comfy-riding handbook, "Saddle, Sore: Ride Comfortable, Ride...
Videos
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