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Weekly Cycling
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Where masters cyclists and endurance athletes learn to train smarter, stay healthy, and improve performance to reach their goals.
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On The Consummate Athlete Podcast, we’re digging into how to be the best endurance athlete you can be. We talk to experts and athletes, and share our combined 40+ years of experience in the endurance sport world so that you can train efficiently and race smart.
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Podcast Episodes
All About the New Models of Sponsorship (At Any Age!) with Cait Dumas
Cait Dumas of Champion System discusses the state of sponsorship and how individual athletes can create effective privateer programs. Check out Champion System for custom cycling clothing https://www.champ-sys.ca/ And get more on sponsorship with Molly's book, "The...
Mental Performance & Self Awareness – Amy Bell
Amy Bell is a Mental Performance Consultant. We discuss mental performance in sport/life, Meditation, exercises for your mental training and practical strategies for nerves, key moments in events and motivation for training. Find a Mental Performance Consultant...
Can You Crosstrain While Peaking for a Race?
Today we discuss if you can cross-train as your big race approaches and when being a Consummate Athlete might not work (or when it works really well!) during a specific preparation period. We also discuss how to decide what races to go back to as races start after the...
Race Day Nerves, Filtering Water & Race if You are Going to Race
Listener questions about filtering water for long adventures, How to deal with race nerves (or first race back nerves) and Peter's concept of 'race if you are going to race'. Race if you are going to race is shorthand to say that racing is hard and whether it's a...
Mountain Sport and Wool Connoisseur – Bonie Shupe
Bonie Shupe discusses how she does so many different sports and how wool enhances her consummate athlete lifestyle. Listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3eK9nI1Rmr7o9WvUcwCR2b Listen on Apple Podcast -...
Running Killarney La Cloche Trail Debrief
The ~76km La Cloche Silhouette trail is in Killarney Provincial Park in Northern Ontario. While most trail users are hiking the trail in 3-10 days the popularity of trying to run the trail in a single day has increased over the last few years. We ran it in late June ...
Mental Performance – Val Hadd
Val Hadd, a mental performance consultant who works with Cycling Canada, including para-cycling. We discuss Motivation, Confidence, focus and using mental techniques in training so that you are ready for races. Listen on Spotify ...
Breaking The Stress Cycle – Andrew Bernstein
Andrew Bernstein discusses how we can learn to gain insight into our stressful thoughts and break out of the stress cycle to become more resilient. Listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3eK9nI1Rmr7o9WvUcwCR2b Listen on Apple Podcast -...
Sports Nutrition – Stevie Lyn Smith
Stevie Lyn Smith is a board-certified specialist in sports dietetics, she also has worked with many other populations providing medical nutrition therapy. She has competed in team sports and completed 10 Ironmans and numerous other endurance events. Follow Stevie's...