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What’s Your Training ‘Minimum Viable Product’?
On the podcast this week, we talked about three important topics: Handling training during a stressful life situation (whether it’s chronic work/life overload or a more acute thing like a death in the family), strength training for masters athletes and starting to run...
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...
Training Through Stress & Starting Strength or Running This Fall
In this episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, we answer listener questions about training through stressful periods and offer tips for masters cyclists on starting strength training and running this fall. This Episode is Brought to You By: The Payable Add-on...
Training
Your Favorite 2020 Articles on The Consummate Athlete
Happy Holidays + we hope that wherever you are, you've gotten the chance to enjoy some downtime and a safe, relaxing holiday as we head into the New Year. And to ring out the old, we wanted to highlight a few of our favorite articles from 2020: A Few Quick Healthy...
A Reminder That Progress Isn’t Always Linear
This is something I've been thinking about as we wrote Becoming A Consummate Athlete and I was working on the Point A and Point B concepts, and then trying to work out a conclusion to a book about habit change. It's something I've been thinking about as my younger...
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...
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Mindset
Talking FOMO, Saddle Issues, Recovery Nutrition + More on The Consummate Athlete Podcast
I love doing these Q&A episodes—this one was particularly fun since it had me re-reading my book Saddle, Sore: Ride Comfortable, Ride Happy for one of the Qs (I'm also amazed at how many articles I have up on that site!), and flipping through Fuel Your Ride for...
“The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience” by Jennifer Pharr Davis is June’s Athletic Bookworm Read
I kept seeing interviews and snippets from "The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience" by Jennifer Pharr Davis in magazines and on sites that I love all last month, so I grabbed the Kindle sample and dove in. I loved the...
“The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance” by Katty Kay Notes and Review
This month, the Athletic Bookworms read "The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know" by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman—and frankly, for me, it was perfectly timed. (It's like I pick the books, or something!) Anyway, I really...
Nutrition
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Gear
Re-Entry, Sparking Joy, and Other Random Renovation & Life Tidbits
We just got home from pretty excellent trip — hosting some clinics, Nationals for Peter, meetings for me, and even stopping in for a surprise birthday party in the town where we got married — and then we walked into a bit of chaos. So, what's up? Pretty much all good...
Altra Women’s Superior 3.5 Trail Running Sneaker Review
UPDATE: Really disappointed with their customer service. After only a couple of weeks, the one shoe developed a small hole in the upper (which does happen, I get it), and trying to get it replaced is like pulling teeth. I'm still waiting to sort out what happens with...
Essential Swim Gear You Didn’t Know You Needed
Over at Gear Junkie, I wrote all about the Essential Swim Gear You Didn’t Know You Needed because, let's be honest, most of us just assume goggle + suit and good to go. Which isn't wrong exactly, but there's a lot of sweet gear out there to help you crush your swim...
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