Consummate Athlete Podcast

Dec 10 2024 520 ep. 51 mins 66
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Join Coach & Kinesiologist Peter Glassford and Author Molly Hurford on the Consummate Athlete Podcast, where endurance athletes learn to train smarter, stay healthy, and improve performance. We want to help the busy masters cyclists, overextended entrepreneurs and those with hectic lives still meet their athletic goals. With over 40 years of experience in sport, we share expert advice and actionable tips in Q&A episodes and draw outside expertise from monthly interviews with top athletes and experts to help you excel in road cycling, mountain biking, gravel racing, and more. Whether you're aiming to optimize your training, boost recovery, or simply enjoy cycling into your masters years, this podcast will guide you towards your endurance goals.

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Season Review & Goal Setting for Adult Athletes

Dec 10 2024 48 mins  
In this episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, we explore practical approaches to goal setting and share a framework you can use, whether you have a specific goal in mind or are looking for direction. We discuss how setting short-term process goals can help you progress toward larger annual goals, like achieving a fitness milestone or preparing for an event. Additionally, we hi

Life Skills Through Bike Skills - Gabrielle Rossi

Dec 03 2024 41 mins  
In this episode, we chat with Gabrielle Rossi, PhD, the Executive Director of Girls in Gear, a confidence-building initiative for young cyclists that develops "life skills through bike skills." We explore the empowerment of youth through cycling, the cultivation of resilience, and Gabrielle’s passion for fostering connections through biking. She shares how bicycles can inspire pe

Respiratory Training for Masters, Altitude & 24 Hour Racing - Luke Way

Nov 26 2024 42 mins  
In this episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, Luke Way of Isocapnic returns to talk about respiratory training and how it applies for masters, how it could help altitude training, some details about Corey Wallace's 24-hour solo world championship win and some specific workouts for those using Iscopanic already! This Episode is Brought to You By: The Payable Add-on for Google

Sodium-Bicarbonate, Fall Weight Loss, Red-S - Stevie Lyn Smith

Nov 19 2024 59 mins  
This episode features Stevie Lyn Smith a registered dietitian with a speciality in sports dietetics. Stevie speaks with Molly about a host of nutritional concepts that concern masters athletes including concerns about over-fueling, the risks of under-fueling, Red-S, Sodium-Bicarbonate, and the concept of fall weight loss when training load is lower. This Episode is Brought to Y

Cold Weather Training, Heart Rate and Strategies for Success

Nov 12 2024 38 mins  
In this episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, we answer listener questions on training through the chilly fall and early winter season, including a common question: why is heart rate often lower when it’s cold out? We explore how to get the most out of heart rate-based training by considering your specific conditions and context. We also look at alternatives to training soft

Iceman Cometh 2024 - Noah Ramsey

Nov 08 2024 29 mins  
Noah Ramsey is the winner of the 2024 Bells Iceman Cometh Challenge and a U23 Mountain Bike Racer from Toronto, Ontario. We discuss his racing season, specifics about Iceman and where he might go next as he transitions from U23 to Elite in 2025. We also discuss his favorite workout that he has gotten from coach Peter over the last 5 years they have worked together. This Episode

Recovery, Physiology & Strength - Julia Casadio

Nov 05 2024 53 mins  
In this episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, Molly Hurford chats with Julia Casadio, a high-performance sports expert who has worked with Olympians in canoe slalom and sailing. They dive into a range of topics, including Molly's ankle injury recovery, the benefits of wearables like the Oura Ring, and they consider heat training and cold plunging for athletes. Julia shares val

Can Group Rides be Part of a Trainig Plan + Including Heavy Strength Before MTB Race?

Oct 29 2024 32 mins  
In this episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, we answer 2 listener questions about training plans. Can Group Rides be Part of a Training Plan and how do you include them around intervals and steady endurance riding without over or under loading? The second question is about including Heavy Strength Before MTB Race? We go through how we think about general/goal-based plans that

Run Safety + Ontario Triple Crown of 100 milers - John Shep

Oct 22 2024 54 mins  
In this episode of the Consummate Athlete Podcast, we chat with John Shep, a teacher, ultrarunner, and host of the Athletics Ontario Running Podcast, who recently accomplished the incredible feat of completing the Triple Crown of Ontario—three grueling 100-mile races: Sulfur Springs, Halliburton, and Tally in the Valley. John discusses the importance of local racing, community su

Unlocking Off-Season Success: Transition Phases + Using Session RPE

Oct 15 2024 50 mins  
In this episode Molly and Peter discuss what a training plan or coaching might look like in the 'off-season', which is the periods of the year away from the competitive season. This phase is sometimes referred to as the transition or preparation phases and comes before the base or acccumulation phases. For athletes wanting to 'go to the next level' or improve their results this pha