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Spring Clean Your Nutrition: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Food
You all know that I loved The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo, and it's sparked a lot of joy in my life in recent years. I've decluttered the crap out of my gear closet, worked through easy ways to sell...
Should I Ride For 3 Hours on the Trainer?
In this episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, Molly and Peter discuss a few listener questions. Firstly a question about when, why and how to ride 3 hours (or more) on the trainer. We also discuss logging TSS for strength (and why you might not want to) and...
Homegrown Gravel Adventure Intel
We headed down to Georgia in February for the Homegrown Gravel Adventure Event. It is based about an hour outside of Atlanta in the town of Franklin. The vibes and the race itself were great—we highly recommend putting it on your list for gravel races that are worth...
Training
Should You Diagnose, or Get to Changing?
Clients periodically come to me with a condition or something they feel is outside of themselves. This could be a health condition, bad 'luck' in races, low energy, injuries or poor response to training. They think of this one thing (or combination of outside...
Avoiding Training Burnout
We discuss a few listener questions around the concept of burnout in cycling and endurance sports. What to do when your motivation dips and how to consider if you are racing too much. Get Your Free Bonus from Athletic Greens - athleticgreens.com/mollyh - to...
How To Run Solo And Stay Safe
I waiver between overthinking running solo and completely not thinking about it, if I'm honest—so it was really eye-opening to interview a former undercover police officer and serious runner a couple of years ago about some of her best tips for how to stay safe while...
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Mindset
Becoming A Consummate Athlete: Sneak Peek Inside!
Our new guidebook to athletic habits + success is out tomorrow! At The Consummate Athlete, we're advocates of bringing training, nutrition, recovery, gear and so much more together to create an optimal lifestyle for athletes. And in our new book, Becoming A Consummate...
3 Tools for Success – The Consummate Athlete Coaching Philosophy
When it comes to summing up our training philosophy in our coaching with the Consummate Athlete, you can think of three numbers: 80, 90 and 100. Coach Peter Glassford includes these three ideas in his philosophy as a reminder to the athletes he works with (and to...
Tie Your Training to Your Personality Type: It’s Science
A new study just came out talking about how different personalities may do better with different types of exercise and training, and while that seemed kind of 'duh' at the outset, it was actually interesting--figuring out what motivates different people is obviously a...
Nutrition
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Lifestyle
A Few #VanLife Camping Tips (That I Learned the Hard Way)
We finally started doing more travel in our van, investing in some stuff like a sleeping platform, pads, a plug-in cooler and a battery with a solar panel. While we're still working out some organizational stuff and trying to really figure out what we definitely...
Travel Tip: The Best Things I’ve Learned About Packing Carry-Ons
I just got through another Euro flight, and this time, I managed to not spill anything on my seat, and have everything I needed in my under-seat bag, plus a neatly packed carry-on. Since this month's buzzword is travel, I figured this would shed some light on what...
The #VanLife Budget in Real Life
To be honest, the big thing I'm finding out is that it takes a lot of trips and a lot of nights *not* staying in hotels for a van setup to truly pay off. Decent vans—ones that can make it across the country—don't come cheap. And ours was specifically chosen for the...
Women Specific
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Gear
On Just Get Started in a Sport — Or, What I Learned My First Time Bikepacking
I just got back from an awesome three-day bikepacking trip. Long story short, we rode 110 miles, did a 25-mile trail run the next day, then biked home (another 110 miles) the next day. We didn't camp--this was hotel bikepacking! We stayed in an awesome little motel in...
Champion System Cycling Kit MVPs
Custom cycling and triathlon clothing company Champion System has really impressed me in the past year. In addition to their amazing commitment to getting more women and girls on bikes as well as social justice (!), their kits are actually awesome. I've been blown...
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...
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