Female Athlete Nutrition
192 episodes - English - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsAs a Sports Dietitian for NCAA, professional, and recreational athletes alike, I know how powerful nutrition can be. I also know how quickly a female athlete can fall into the trap of disordered eating, under fueling, or amenorrhea which severely limits their health and physical potential. That’s why I’m sharing my knowledge of female-specific nutrition, training, body image, and mindset to help you fuel your body to perform at your highest level. Whether you are looking for a competitive edge with your nutrition training and mindset, or looking to overcome harmful nutrition habits and body acceptance, you’ve come to the right place!
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85: The Fear Of Overfueling
July 07, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Podcast, I talk with professional runner for Altra and scientist Keely Henninger. Keely shares our mission of empowering female athletes through her own Trail Society podcast, worth a listen for everyone, not just trail runners. We explore Keely’s introduction to trail running, attracted to the sport because of the incredibly supportive community. Now a professional runner for Altra, we discuss Keely’s recent race, the Western States 100 miler, and the d...
84: Make Recovery Your Sport
June 30, 2022 10:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Podcast, I speak with Certified Mental Performance Coach Carrie Jackson. This conversation is full of advice on navigating injuries and rehab that is transferable to REDS and disordered eating recovery. Carrie discusses her career journey, the gaps she saw in how injured athletes were managed, and how she is filling them through the work she does today. Carrie speaks about a snowboarding injury that was the catalyst to the work she does today; by shiftin...
83: Never Making NCAA’s To Becoming World Class
June 23, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast I talk with professional runner for Adidas Emily Durgin. We jump right in to discussing her incredible run at the Houston Half Marathon, a performance that places her as the sixth fastest American female of all-time! Emily announces her plans to run her first marathon in the fall of 2022, and talks about how she’ll need to approach fueling differently to maximize her performance over 26.2 miles. Emily shares her current pre-race nutriti...
82: Every Mom Is An Athlete
June 16, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast, I talk with chiropractor, entrepreneur, competitive athlete and mother of 2, Dr. Karlie Causey. We take a deep dive into all things postpartum and new motherhood, the intersection of activity and athletics, and the importance of gaining strength and confidence in our changing bodies. Karlie discusses her slogan that ‘’every mom is an athlete’ and we highlight the incredible athleticism involved throughout pregnancy, birth and postpartu...
81: Rise Up Nutrition Round Table on Body Changes, Looking "Fit" & Fun Food Stories
June 09, 2022 10:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBThis episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast is a special Rise Up Nutrition Round Table discussion between my team and I. Our conversation is full of fun food stories and tangents from myself, my partner in crime and fellow R.U.N. dietitian, Jenna Stranzl, and my assistant and podcast producer, Ruby Wyles. Ruby shares her passion for nutrition, speaking to how her own experiences with eating disorders drive her to help others, as well as being a Division 1 student-athlete looking to ...
80: RED-S Resources, Recovery & Rebounding
June 02, 2022 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast, I talk with elite distance runner and REDS advocate Pippa Woolven. Pippa recently established Project RED-S, an initiative centered around connecting athletes and their support systems with all the right resources to help them overcome REDS. Pippa explains the need for Project REDS and how she is working to grow a directory of specialists in this field: doctors, dietitians, psychologists, coaches and more, so that athletes can be bette...
79: Overcoming Fear of Failure & Developing Confidence
May 26, 2022 10:00 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast, I talk with Girl Athlete Mindset Mentor Paige Tonz. Paige shares her introduction to sport through softball, leading her to play competitively at the Division 1 level. After struggling to perform in college, Paige explains how a major mindset shift freeing herself from expectations led to a breakthrough senior year. This change in mindset involved focusing on having fun rather than fearing failure. Peak performance can still be achieve...
78: The Truth About Weighing Scales
May 19, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBIn this solo episode of the Female Athlete Podcast, I give our amazing podcast producer Ruby Wyles a big shoutout and recommend you go follow her on Instagram @rwyles_xctf! Today, I dive deep into the topic of scales. I differentiate between food scales and body weight scales and their usefulness, or lack thereof. Both have places for some people and not others: scales are not essential, should not be used daily, and I often recommend clients get rid of theirs. I discuss how my own relat...
77: Olympian Elise Cranny's Journey with REDS
May 12, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast, I talk with Tokyo 2020 Olympian Elise Cranny. Elise speaks about the importance of playing different sports and not specializing in one sport too early, before she later discovered her love of running in high school. Elise shares how competing out of state freshman year of high school opened her up to what might be possible in athletics. Her world of possibility further opened up this past year as Elise made her first Olympic team and ...
77: Olympian Elise Cranny's Journey with REDS
May 12, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast, I talk with Tokyo 2020 Olympian Elise Cranny. Elise speaks about the importance of playing different sports and not specializing in one sport too early, before she later discovered her love of running in high school. Elise shares how competing out of state freshman year of high school opened her up to what might be possible in athletics. Her world of possibility further opened up this past year as Elise made her first Olympic team and ...
76: Rejecting Diet Culture & Treating Athletes with Eating Disorders
May 05, 2022 10:00 - 52 minutes - 48.6 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Podcast, I talk to eating disorder and athlete psychotherapist Dr Stephanie Roth-Goldberg. We start by discussing Stephanie’s entry into psychotherapy and working with athletes with eating disorders, as well as her personal history with nutrition and mental health. As is all too common, Stephanie’s drive to “eat clean” to improve her performance led her down a path of restriction and underfuelling, and ultimately into a chronic cycle of injuries. Nutri...
75: Weight Gain, Body Image and Plant-based Diets in Elite Sport
April 28, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Podcast, I chat to professional ultra trail runner Lucy Bartholomew. Lucy shares her introduction to trail running inspired by her father, running her first ultra trail race at only 15! From her first trail race to her most recent, Lucy has received public scrutiny and backlash, overcoming criticism and doubt before she even stepped foot on the trail. We discuss resiliency and how she chooses to focus on herself and trust her internal why. We talk abou...
74: Strength Training Will Not Make You Bulky!
April 21, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast, I talk with former professional soccer player and youth female athlete performance coach Erica Suter. We discuss strength training for young athletes and the benefits of learning these skills and movement patterns early. Erica recommends starting strength and conditioning training in middle school before children hit puberty, emphasizing fun, healthy competition and using comparison positively to level up! Erica shares her personal j...
73: How Running Nearly Killed Kate and Dealing with Loss of Identity
April 14, 2022 10:00 - 54 minutes - 50 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Podcast, I talk with physiotherapist and host of the More Than Miles podcast, Dr Kate Mihevc Edwards. We start by discussing her work as a physiotherapist treating athletes. Kate explains how she sees the body holistically, looking beyond the injury site to find the route cause and prevent future issues from arising. We touch on what to look for in a physiotherapist, and how to find a trustworthy and knowledgeable professional. Kate shares her own stor...
72: An Athlete’s Heart
April 07, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Podcast, I speak to sports cardiologist Dr Jonathan Kim. We start off exploring the new field of sports cardiology, and how it’s evolved recently with rising awareness of heart conditions in athletes. Exercise results in adaptations to the heart that are normally beneficial, such as lower resting heart rates and increased cardiac muscle strength, otherwise known as “athlete’s heart”, however, as Dr Kim explains, some changes in the heart can pose risks a...
72: An Athlete’s Heart
April 07, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Podcast, I speak to sports cardiologist Dr Jonathan Kim. We start off exploring the new field of sports cardiology, and how it’s evolved recently with rising awareness of heart conditions in athletes. Exercise results in adaptations to the heart that are normally beneficial, such as lower resting heart rates and increased cardiac muscle strength, otherwise known as “athlete’s heart”, however, as Dr Kim explains, some changes in the heart can pose risks a...
71: When Weight-loss Becomes Your Sport
March 31, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition Podcast, I talk with lightweight rower Tory Mather. We hear how Tory found her passion for rowing in high school, before going on to row in college and beyond post-collegiately. Tory enlightens us about lightweight rowing, explaining the rules around weighing in and balancing athletes in a boat. We discuss how lightweight rowing was established to include shorter athletes in rowing, a sport where height is a significant advantage. From well-m...
70: Fueling to win (...Not to Lose Weight)
March 24, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast I speak with former client and collegiate volleyball player Abby. Abby shares how identifying strongly as an athlete unintentionally led her down a path of underfueling as she looked to improve her athletic performance in high school. On into college, years of disordered eating manifested negatively in Abby’s performance and she experienced a constant lack of energy, prolonged muscle soreness, and repeated injuries that ultimately force...
69: Optimizing Biomarkers for Health & Performance
March 17, 2022 10:00 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast, I have a great conversation with a fellow registered dietitian, Stevie Lyn Smith. We start out discussing the education and early career pathways for dietitians, and Stevie shares how she found herself working with athletes after starting in clinical nutrition. Stevie shares about her background playing lacrosse in high school and college before finding endurance sports more recently. Completing her first Ironman prompted her to firs...
69: Optimizing Biomarkers with Shalane Flanagan’s Dietitian
March 17, 2022 10:00 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBIn this episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast, I have a great conversation with a fellow registered dietitian, Stevie Lyn Smith. We start out discussing the education and early career pathways for dietitians, and Stevie shares how she found herself working with athletes after starting in clinical nutrition. Stevie shares about her background playing lacrosse in high school and college before finding endurance sports more recently. Completing her first Ironman prompted her to firs...
68: Alcohol is Not the Problem
March 10, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBIn this episode, I chat with soul alignment coach Meiyan Mullin. This conversation is a little different from normal and centers around alcohol. We discuss gray-line drinking and the middle ground between destructive alcoholism and having a healthy relationship with drinking. Meiyan explains how everyone has their own line and must accept for themselves if their drinking has become problematic. Gray-line drinking is highly prevalent in our society and it has become normalized to drink daily....
67: It’s OK to not be OK, Even for Olympians
March 03, 2022 11:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBIn this episode, I talk with Olympic finalist in the steeplechase Val Constien. Val is not a professional runner despite being one of the best athletes in the world: she balances elite sport with a full time job. We discuss the financial reality of how Val funds her athletic goals without a sponsor, juggling training, nutrition and recovery around a normal work week. Val reminds us to believe in ourselves and not give up on our dreams regardless of whether others, including sponsors, see tha...
66: Supplements: Fact or Fiction
February 24, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBIn this episode, I talk with a world leading expert in sports nutrition and University of Kentucky professor, Dr Travis Thomas. We start by discussing some of Dr Thomas’ academic and research highlights related to sports nutrition. While sports nutrition can be complicated, the most successful approaches are athlete-specific and individualized, which is why it’s important to work 1-on-1 with a dietitian. Dr Thomas and I emphasize the importance of your daily diet over fancy supplements, pill...
65: Overcoming Anorexia & Anxiety to Making Team USA
February 17, 2022 11:00 - 50 minutes - 47 MBIn this episode, I talk with professional Team USA heptathlete Chari Hawkins. We touch on Chari’s start in athletes watching her four older siblings play, before getting involved herself in high school for the social time with friends. Chari opens up about her struggles with anorexia and body image in high school, seeking acceptance in her “skinny” appearance. This desire to fit in and keep her body small hindered her performance on the track as she no longer had the strength to win. Athl...
64: Nutrition for NCAA Champions with Coach Laurie Henes
February 10, 2022 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBIn this episode, I talk with NC State Women’s Head Coach Laurie Henes. We discuss her recent team success winning the NCAA Division 1 Cross Country Championships for the first time ever! While running is an individual sport, Coach Henes emphasizes the importance of team support, something we believe in with our clients at Rise Up Nutrition. Laurie shares some of her personal experiences running for NC State herself, winning an NCAA title before going on to run post-collegiately. We talk ab...
63: Personalized Nutrition and Fun with Food with Mackenzie Bowman
February 03, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes - 53.6 MBIn this episode, I talk with Rise Up Nutrition teammate and fellow dietitian Mackenzie Bowman. We discuss how she got her start working with eating disorders and sports nutrition after staring off as an engineering major. Both with experience working in the collegiate setting, we talk about the importance of sports dietetics and nutritional resources for student-athletes. Mackenzie shares her passion for building personal relationships with clients, focusing on the psychology behind nutritio...
62: Debunking Clean Sport and Racing Weight
January 27, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBIn this episode, I talk with clean sport advocate, running coach and podcast host Chris McClung. We explore Chris’ introduction to running, how his own injuries and training mistakes motivated him to learn more about training science, peak performance and coaching. Chris explains his training philosophy emphasizing variety and periodization, the power of the team, and the importance of recovery and fueling to support high training volume. We discuss how his approach to coaching female athlet...
61: REDS and Disordered Eating During Covid 19
January 20, 2022 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBIn this episode, I talk with a client of mine, Lindsay, who was enrolled in the Rise Up Nutrition FAST Track program. Lindsay shares the impact of the pandemic on her relationship with food and exercise as a high school athlete. Feeling isolated and out of control, Lindsay found purpose and comfort in controlling her nutrition and training. Despite initial satisfaction, Lindsay explains how this obsession led her down a path of disordered eating and over-exercising, something that a friend o...
60: Navigating Puberty and Collegiate Athletics
January 13, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBIn this episode, I talk with the University of Minnesota Head Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Coach Sarah Hopkins. Coaching through the Covid 19 pandemic has presented unique challenges, but Sarah explains how the extra year of eligibility awarded to student-athletes has benefitted her team. The extra year of training and development has seen her teams earn notable NCAA finishes. Sarah discusses the college recruitment process and her approach to coaching that is designed to have athletes pe...
59: How to Succeed at Your New Year’s Resolutions
January 06, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBThis episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast is a solo episode centered around New Year goal setting. Before diving deep into the main topic, Lindsey shares some big life updates having recently given birth to baby Gabriel. Lindsey reminds us all to have patience and compassion for ourselves and for the things that are out of our control when looking to the future. As with every New Year, this January comes with an overwhelming amount of societal pressure and diet culture messaging...
58: Knowledge Isn't Always Power: Coaches Need Coaches Too
December 23, 2021 11:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBIn this episode, I talk with a client of mine, Alana Asch, who was enrolled in the Rise Up Nutrition Group Coaching program. Alana unpacks her disordered relationship with food from a child until now in her late 20s, beginning with food anxiety and severe restriction, then a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa as a teenager. She reveals how competitive and controlling traits, when applied to eating, ultimately hurt her physically and mentally. Alana opens up about her experience in an eating disor...
57: Daily Desserts to Perform Better (+ Cheese!)
December 16, 2021 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46 MBIn this episode, I talk with Oiselle-sponsored professional runner Rebecca Mehra. We touch on the challenging college transition period, and Rebecca shines a light on the importance of making mistakes to learn and grow from them to become a better athlete. From a disappointing freshman year that saw her plagued by injury after injury, Rebecca turned it around to have a breakout sophomore year. After making that leap, Rebecca found herself riding a frustrating plateau, and here she speaks to ...
56: Recovery is a Rollercoaster
December 09, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBIn this episode, I talk with a client of mine, Anna Grace, who recently graduated from our Female Athlete System of Transformation program (aka the FAST Track). Anna Grace shares about how her drive to perform at her best in soccer led her down a path of disordered eating and over-exercising that zapped her energy and impaired her performance. Anna Grace explains how the comparison trap to professional athletes and desire to “look like an athlete” fuelled her drive to train harder and restri...
55: Brittney Reese - Fueling breakthrough performances
December 02, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 34 MBIn this episode, I talk with 4x Olympian and multiple time World and Olympic medallist Brittany Reese. We touch on her recent experience in Tokyo at the 2020 Olympic Games, and how she embraces different cuisines and foreign food cultures when frequently competing abroad. Brittney speaks about the diverse athletic background she developed, pursuing team sports before finally specializing in track and field after playing collegiate basketball! From being encouraged by her mother to pursue c...
54: Happy Birthday Podcast!
November 25, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBIn this very special Happy Birthday Podcast episode I reflect back on this first year of hosting a podcast. Starting in November 2020, the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast was created to spread my message of fueling optimally to maximize our potential as female athletes. My hope was to reach a wider audience, beyond the clients I work with at Rise Up Nutrition, and share my knowledge around to empower females to be fierce, fit and fueled. In this episode, I touch on the fears that held me ...
53: Hypnosis for Weight Loss with Leslie Thornton
November 18, 2021 11:00 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBIn this episode, I speak to registered nurse and hypnosis for permanent weight loss coach, Leslie M Thornton. Leslie shares her early entry into diet culture, disordered eating habits and fad diets as a child. These early experiences left their mark on Leslie into her adult life, something which her work with the unconscious mind has revealed. We touch upon the comparison trap and fear of what other people think of the way we look. After dispelling this myth and embracing hypnotherapy, Les...
52: Breaking Free From Holiday Diet Culture
November 11, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBLindsey acknowledges that the holiday period can be a challenging and anxious time for those struggling with disordered eating. Diet culture bombards us with mixed messaging on how to control ourselves and “be good” throughout the holidays. Society contrasts this with messages of indulgence and letting go of control. Both ends of this divide lead us to feeling guilty and bad about ourselves, caught up yo-yoing between periods of “strict control” and periods of feeling “out of control”: there...
52: Breaking Free From Holiday Diet Culture
November 11, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBLindsey acknowledges that the holiday period can be a challenging and anxious time for those struggling with disordered eating. Diet culture bombards us with mixed messaging on how to control ourselves and “be good” throughout the holidays. Society contrasts this with messages of indulgence and letting go of control. Both ends of this divide lead us to feeling guilty and bad about ourselves, caught up yo-yoing between periods of “strict control” and periods of feeling “out of control”: there...
51: Mobility Over Exercise With Dr Vonda Wright
November 04, 2021 10:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBIn this episode I spoke to Dr Vonda Wright, orthopedic surgeon, researcher and international speaker, on her career in medicine and passion for mobility. She speaks on her philosophy, empowering her patients through movement to take control of their long-term health, and her focus on an active daily lifestyle rather than structured exercise. Mobility is only 1 of the 5 pillars of health: sleep, nutrition, mobility, social interaction and detoxification. Vonda promotes balancing mobility with...
50: Even dietitians need dietitians! With Jenna Stranzl
October 28, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes - 35.2 MBIn this episode, I sit down with fellow Rise Up Nutrition LLC dietitian Jenna Stranzl, our first repeat guest. Catch our previous conversation where Jenna shares her story on episode 30 of the Female Athlete Nutrition Podcast. Today we discuss the most rewarding parts of helping our clients overcome their fueling concerns, seeing how mindset shifts have led to huge transformations across their whole lives. Jenna and I talk about the education and experience required to become a dietitian...
49: Olympians struggle with food and body image too! With Katie Nageotte
October 21, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes - 49.5 MBIn this episode, I speak to the 2020 Olympic Champion in the pole vault, Katie Nageotte. She touches on her bumpy build up to the Olympics and how she overcame adversity along the way to capturing the gold medal. This adversity included her losing weight following an episode of food poisoning that she felt was detrimental to her performance: lighter is not better! Katie details her steady progression in the pole vault from high school beginnings to NCAA D2 success and into her professional...
Episode 48: Eating Disorders - A Mom's Perspective
October 14, 2021 10:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBIn this episode I chat to Kelly, mom to one of my clients, Kendall, and we hear a parent’s perspective of walking through eating disorder recovery alongside her daughter. She speaks of the frustrations and limitations of in-person care, and how the Internet and virtual platforms offer greater accessibility to specialists and targeted treatment programs, like what we offer at Rise Up Nutrition. For Kelly, an early sign of Kendall’s eating disorder was severe constipation and GI distress, al...
47: Danielle Shanahan - Fueling For Injury Recovery
October 07, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBIn this episode I chat with professional runner Dani Shanahan about running, injury, and food of course! We chat about her recent PRs in the 5k and 10k which were followed by injury and the challenges that she has faced as she keeps the long term goal of proper recovery in mind. With that, we address nutrition changes during injury (or more appropriately I should say, nutrition changes that shouldn't happen during injury). Dani shares her enjoyment of food and we talk about how "emotional ea...
Episode 46: Recovery Fact and Fiction with Dr. Shona Halson
September 30, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBIn this episode I chat with Associate Professor and exercise scientist Dr Shona Halson on all things recovery to optimize health, performance, and training adaptation. She defines recovery as bringing the body physically and psychologically back to homeostasis, balancing out the stressors. Dr Halson advises us to plan recovery into our schedule alongside training, and periodize fatigue with the season of training to drive adaptation. She emphasizes that the good stuff happens when we rest an...
45: Anna Rohrer Training the Brain for Athletic Success
September 23, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBToday I interview Anna Rohrer, experienced runner and mindset and performance coach. This episode touches on it all: athletics, nutrition, and mindset! We discuss her personal experiences with running starting at a young age with success in high school being named Gatorade Girls XC Runner of the Year in 2014-2015 and 2x National Footlocker Champion, helping her land a spot on Notre Dame's XC & Track and Field teams. But this success was not achieved without many hardships along the way, in...
44: Selene Yeager "Hit Play Not Pause" with Athletics Through Menopause
September 16, 2021 10:00 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBIn this episode I chat with Selene Yeager, host of Hit Play Not Pause, a Feisty Menopause podcast for active, performance-minded women. We talk about the realities of female athletes going through menopause, shedding light on a topic that has not been discussed for far too long! Selene is on a mission to help women continue to train and feel great in their bodies no matter their age or hormone fluctuations by educating women on what is happening to their bodies and what they can do about it....
43: Angel Piccirillo Exposure to Diversity & Women in Sport
September 09, 2021 10:00 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBToday I chat with professional runner Angel Piccirillo about her running career including her experiences working under a female coach at the college level to a now-all female sponsored team Oiselle. We also chat about diversity in the sport of track and field including her experiences as Black American distance runner. Angel is from Homer City, outside Pittsburgh, PA. She attended and ran for Villanova University, competing in anything from the 4x400 to cross country, but now mostly focus...
42: Brodie Sharpe - Running is the Most Dangerous Sport!
September 02, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBIn this episode I chat with Physiotherapist Brodie Sharpe on how runners get injured, injury myths, and pain! Brodie is from Melbourne Australia; he graduated from physiotherapy in 2012, and is on a mission to bring clear evidence-based information to runners in order for them to train smarter, reduce their risk of injuries and increase their performance safely. He is the host of the Run Smarter Podcast and the owner of the Run Smarter Physiotherapy clinic. In this episode you'll learn why...
41: Cali Schweikhart: Health First for Peak Performance
August 26, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBCali Schweikhart is a member of the Spartan Pro Team and a client of mine here at Rise Up Nutrition LLC. In today's episode we talk about her journey with athletics & nutrition and why she eventually became a client. She share's her journey & experiences working together to overcome years of disordered eating, weight cycling, and amenorrhea. I can't thank Cali enough for sharing her story to help inspire others to pursue health first, in order to pursue athletics. More about Cali: She is a...
40: Vanessa Fraser on Injury & Return to Run
August 19, 2021 10:00 - 50 minutes - 46.8 MBIn this episode, I chat with professional runner Vanessa Fraser about her injury journey over the past 14 months, the difficulties she faced, and her ability to show up at the US Olympic Trials in May 2021. We chat about her relationship with nutrition which started around 9th grade when she had to gain weight for her health and the importance of this through her developmental years. This knowledge she gained helped shape her to the runner she is today knowing she always has to fuel to keep ...