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Making Shift Happen — 256 episodes

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265. 47 Years Later: 10 Lessons That Changed My Life

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264. Becoming a Brave Athlete: Mental Resilience for Athletes

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263. The Secret to Staying Consistent With Strength Training All Summer

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261. You Don’t Need to Earn Rest: The Productivity Lie That’s Keeping You Exhausted

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254. You Took the Nervous System Audit… Now What? A Simple Plan to Feel Less Stressed and More Regulated

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252. You’re Not Burnt Out – You’re Over Capacity: Why Everything Feels Harder

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251. Why You Feel Exhausted but Can’t Relax

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250. You Can’t Out-Train a Fried Nervous System

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249. Your Mental Load is Killing Your Progress-Here’s How to Fix It

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248: You’re Not Unmotivated – You’re Overstimulated

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247. Mindful Eating for Athletes: How to Fuel for Performance Without Overeating

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246. Mindfulness for Busy Athletes: How to Reduce Stress in 60 Seconds a Day

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245. Why Bodybuilding Workouts Don’t Improve Cycling Performance

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244. Heart Health for Everyone (but Especially Cyclists)

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243. Navigating Concussions in Sports: Insights from an Expert

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242. Why Winter Training Makes You Hungrier (and How to Fuel Smarter)

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241. From Mountain Trails to Mindfulness with Karen Jarchow

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240. The Winter Training Identity Shift: From All-or-Nothing to Consistently Strong

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239. A Simple No-BS Way to Set Goals that Actually Stick

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238. Memories Over Macros: How to Enjoy the Holidays Without Losing Your Fitness Goals

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237. How to Recover After a Hard Training Block

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236. How to Stay Motivated When Winter Days Get Short and Cold

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235. You May Be Using Your Indoor Bike Trainer Wrong

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234. How to Not Hate Your Trainer: Making Indoor Rides Suck 80% Less

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233. The Secret Off-Season Training Formula: Train Less, Get Fitter, Be Happier

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232. Annijke Wade: Advocating for All Cyclists

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231. How to Maintain Bike Fitness Without Losing Motivation this Winter

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230. Strength Training for Pain-Free Knees

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229. Why Your Low Back Hurts on the Bike (and How to Fix It)

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228. Ride Longer, Burn Smarter: Lactate Threshold Training Made Simple

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227. Fueling Success: The Story Behind Flow Formulas with Hannah Reese

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226. Off-Season Strength Training for Cyclists: Build Your Best Season Yet

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225. Why Gravel + MTB Rides Wreck You (And How to Recover Smarter)

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224. How to Finally Stop Bonking Mid-Ride

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223. How Busy Cyclists Can Adapt Training When Life Gets Messy

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222. Heart Rate Variability (HRV) for Cyclists: The Key to Smarter Training and Recovery

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221. How to Develop Durability on the Bike

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220. Why VO₂max Isn’t Everything for Cyclists

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219. MTB Gains: Strength Training Secrets with a PT Who Rides

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218. Level Up Your MTB Skills: From Rider to Racer in 5 Shifts

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217. Can Protein Supplements Prevent Muscle Loss in Recovery?

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216. Metabolic Flexibility: The Missing Link in Energy, Performance, and Fat Loss

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215. How to Fuel for Early Morning Training

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214. What NOT to Eat Before Bike Rides

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213. Fueling More Miles: Nutrition Tips for Cyclists in Season

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212. Are You Ready, Willing, and Able to Change?

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211. How to Get Your Bike Ready to Ride

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210. Stop Half-Assing Your Life

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209. Creatine and Women

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208. The Downsides and Dangers of Supplements

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207. My 2025 Non-Money Financial Goals

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206. Using the 3-3-3 Technique for Overwhelm or Anxiety

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205. How to Use Heart Rate Recovery as a Performance Metric

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204. Progress is Not Linear

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203. How to Live la Pura Vida

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202. F*ck the Scale

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201. 8 Ways to Keep Your Heart Healthy

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200. How to Get Out of a Funk

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199. Does Social Media Scrolling Impact Your Performance?

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198. How to Stay Informed Without Overwhelm

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197. The Surprising Side Effect of Strength Training

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196. 5 Nutrition and Fitness Tips for Winter

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195. How to Fail Better

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194. Tired of New Year’s Resolutions? Try These Two Things!

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193. 9 of the Biggest Training Mistakes Cyclists Make

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192. Are You Experiencing Burnout?

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191. How to Create a Strength Workout

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190. Off-Season Mountain Bike Workouts

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188. Election Week De-Stressor Tips

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187. Do This One Thing for More Motivation

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186. Breast Cancer Awareness with Stephanie Villavicencio

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185. Roam Fest Recap!

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184. How You Can Help Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene

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183. How to do a Race or Event Reflection

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182. My Leadville MTB Race Recap

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181. From Pregnancy to Perimenopause with Holly Sato, MD

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180. Why You Need Rest or Active Recovery Days

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179. Finding Community + Adventure with VNTRbirds’ Founders Kelley + Leanne Wren

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178. How to Manage Race or Event Stress

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177. How to Fuel Effectively on Race Day – Part 2

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176. How to Fuel Effectively on Race Day

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175. 10 Tips to Help New Mountain Bikers

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174. What if You’re Not Motivated to Workout or Ride?

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173. What Can You Get Out of a Morning Routine?

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172. What is Your Sweat Rate?

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171. Should You Race or Join a Bike Event?

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170. 7 Things to do to Reduce Soreness from Biking + Strength Training

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169. What to do About Your Food Cravings

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168. Should I Bike or Strength Train First?

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167. Using Protein as a Recovery Tool

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166. Are You Under-Fueling?

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165: Women’s MTB Network: Making an Impact for Women in Mountain Biking

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164. Using Your Menstrual Cycle to Empower Your Training

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163. Focusing Only on Body Weight is Short-Sighted

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162. What to do if You Struggle to Maintain Strength While Biking

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161. All About Creatine and Q+A

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160. Do This One Thing for Greater Success

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159. Why You Eat When You’re Not Hungry

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158. Limiting Thoughts Don’t Have to Limit You

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157. Let’s Make Fiber Sexy Again

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156. How to Master Hydration

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155. Combining Bike Fit and Physical Therapy with Natalie Collins, DPT

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154. 5 Steps to Start Your New Workout Routine

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153. Should You Use Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) or Heart Rate?

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152. Make Goal Setting Simple AF

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151. Making Mountain Bike Magic with Amaryth “Amo” Gass

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150. Using Your Core Values to Set Goals

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149. Developing Your Mountain Bike Skills + Crashing Less with Coach Roxy

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148. Why You Lack Consistency

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147. All the Travel Tips

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146. Keeping Gravel Inclusive with Adam Davidson

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145. Motivation, Goal Setting, and Thriving with Sabrena Jo, Ph.D.

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144. My Argument for Indoor Bike Training

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143. Fact or Fiction: Interference Effect Between Strength and Endurance Training

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142. When is the Best Time to Workout?

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141. What to do if You’re too Tired to Workout

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140. The Issue with Muscle Soreness

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139. Using Seasonality to Your Advantage with Kate Solovieva

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138. Signs Your Body Needs Rest

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137. 5 Tips to Lose Fat Without Tracking Your Food

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136. Do This to get Faster on Your Bike

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135. How to Improve Recovery

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134. Self-Care Isn’t Only About the ‘Self’

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133. How to Build Confidence on the Bike

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132. How to Identify and Manage Burnout with Dr. Erin Ayala

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131. How Vacation Can Align With Your Goals

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130. Hardtail or Full Suspension Bike?

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129. How to Reduce Fatigue in Downhill Biking

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128. Heat Illness and Biking

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127. How to Acclimate to the Heat

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126. How to Reduce the Risk + Severity of Concussions

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125. Mountain Bike Skills Series: How to Descend Confidently

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124. Mountain Bike Skills Series: The Only Tip You Need

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123. Are They Your Peers or Rivals?

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122. You Don’t Need to Lose Weight for Your Race or Event

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121. What to do About Post-Race or Event Blues

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120. How the Sturdy Dirty Enduro Race Blazes New Trails for Women

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119. How to Include Plyometrics in Your Bike Training + Why It’s Important

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118. Mountain Bike Skills Series – How to Improve Your Climbing

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117. Get Your Bike Shred Ready for Spring

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116. How to Lose Body Fat Without Sacrificing Performance

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115. Flat or Clipless Pedals – Part 2

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114. Flat or Clipless Pedals?

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113. To Wear Chamois or Not?

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112. How to Get Started in Mountain Biking

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111. 3 Ways to Prevent Death + Disease

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110. How to Train After Illness

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109. Q+A on Zone 2 Endurance Training

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108. Two Things Wrong with Your Goals

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107. How the Cycle Effect Impacts Girls and Accessibility in Mountain Biking

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106. Why Zone 2 Endurance is Crucial in Your Training

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105. Three Reasons You’re Not Seeing Progress

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104. Making Friends with Fear in Mountain Biking with Dr. Annie Pendygraft

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103. How to Make 2023 Your Best Year

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102. Food as a Coping Mechanism

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101. How to Handle Food Pushers

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100. Empowering Women Through Mountain Biking with Julie Cornelius from World Ride

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99. How to Get Long-Term Results

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98. Optimize Your Hydration in Winter

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97. One Important Tip for Holiday Eating

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96. Make Indoor Bike Training Suck Less

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95. How to Plan Your Race Season

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94. Five Ways to Reduce Muscle Soreness

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93. How to Turn Pro in Your Life

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92. Finding Your Morning Motivation

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91. How to Use Fall and Winter to Prep for Bike Season

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90. How to Fit in Bike Skills Training

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89. What to do if You Haven’t Worked Out in Awhile

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88. How to Change Your Environment for Your Success

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87. What Causes Weight Gain

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86. How to Stay Focused on Long Bike Rides

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85. The Most Powerful Phrase You’re Not Using

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84. Stop Belittling Your Efforts

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83. How to be Consistent

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82. Getting Through the Hardest Part

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81. How to Handle Comparing Yourself to Others

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80. Part 3: How to Fuel After Bike Rides

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79. Part 2: How to Fuel During Bike Rides

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78. Part 1: How to Fuel Before Bike Rides

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77. How to Modify Training When Highly Stressed

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76. Can You Diet for Too Long?

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75. Who vs Why: Who do You Want to be?

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74. Are You Overtraining?

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73. Causes of Leg Fatigue When Mountain Biking

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72. What if You Don’t Want to Race?

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71. How to W.I.N. Your Week

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70. Don’t Should All Over Yourself

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69. Meal Prep Made Easy in 3 Steps

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68. Are You Nervous to Join a Group Ride?

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67. Stop Saying Sorry

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66. How to Go From Rider to Racer

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65. You Can’t Control Everything (Except This)

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64. How to Have a Growth vs. Fixed Mindset

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63. What are You Willing to Sacrifice for a Goal?

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62. How Do I Use Visualization?

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61. How Do You Overcome Fear After a Crash?

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60. Habits + What Deserves Your Attention

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59. You Don’t Have to be Good at Everything

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58. Should You Aim for Better or Best?

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57. How to Recover from Multiple Active Days

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56. 3 Mistakes I Made When I Started Lifting

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55. How to Build Confidence in the Gym

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54. Simple Nutrition Tips for Fat Loss

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53. Does Work-Life Balance Exist?

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52. What to Focus on in the Off-Season

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51. How to Slay Your Goals in the New Year

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50. How to Workout When Time is Limited

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49. Four Ways to Eat More Protein

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48. How to Have Fun with Your Workouts

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47. 10 Ways to Track Progress Besides Body Weight

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46. Why You Should Embrace the Suffering

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45. How to Handle Holiday Eating

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44. How to Dress to Train in the Cold

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43. Saying “No” in Order to Say “Yes”

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42. What to do When Life Gets Busy

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41. Food Isn’t “Good” or “Bad”

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40. How to Warm-Up Before Strength Workouts

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39. Where are Your Watts Coming From?

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38. Why Your Core Is Crucial For Everything

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37. How Important is Upper Body Strength for Mountain Biking

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36. What are Your Non-Negotiables to Handle Stress?

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35. 10 Ways to Handle Stressful Weeks

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34. Shift Your Mindset About Losing

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33. How to Prep on Race Day

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32. How Balance Impacts Performance (+ How to Improve Yours)

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31. Q+A on Collagen Protein

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30. Race to Finish Mentality

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29. 4 Ways to Optimize Your Indoor Bike Rides

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28. Overcoming Fear On+Off the Bike with Joanna Yates

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27. The One Recovery Tool You’re Not Using But Should

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26. How to Know When to Take a Rest Day or Train

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25. Take a Damn Rest Day

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24. How to Stay Cool in Hot Weather

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23. “Have to” Versus “Get to” Mindset Shift

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22. How to Build the ‘Perfect’ Meal – Part 2

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21. How to Build the ‘Perfect’ Meal – Part 1

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20. Q+A How to Manage Training and Fuel Yourself as a Mountain Biker

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19. Should You Have Restriction or Restraint with Food?

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18. Focus on Progress Not Expectations

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17. Why and How to Start Each Day with a Blank Slate

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16. F*ck the Scale

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15. Soulful Scientist Dr. Nicole Garneau Talks About Transformation and Mental Health

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14. Master Your Morning to Manage Your Stress

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13. Box Breathing and Other Ways to Manage Stress

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12. 5 Simple Steps to Mindful Eating

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11. Krystyna Holland: Pelvic Floor Health is For EVERYbody

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10. Get More Done by Batching Your Time

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9. Do You Really Need to Walk 10k Steps Per Day?

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8. What to do When You’re Not Motivated to Train (or do Anything)

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7. Is Strength Training Important for Cyclists?

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6. Inclusivity in Mountain Biking with Brooke Goudy

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5. Process Goals are the Answer to your Big Goals

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4. How Much Protein Should I Eat and Why?

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3. Will Lifting Weights Make You Bulky?

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2. How to Take Action with Your Goals

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1. Intro