Climb Your Mountain
Life coach, mountaineer, and ultra runner Sarah Maurer shares her best endurance training strategies to help you climb your mountain or run your race — in any body at any age. Listen and learn how to eat, train, think, and above all live like a mountain athlete. Each week, Sarah will teach you practical strategies to overcome self-doubt, deal with training setbacks, save time, and stay happy and healthy through the long training season. Sarah earned her high altitude mountaineering certificate from Colorado Mountain Club in 2017 at age 41 and has since summited peaks in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and the USA, including Mount Rainier. She's also completed six (and counting) ultramarathons. She's living, breathing proof that you don't need to be 22 and have 6% body fat to be an endurance athlete. On this podcast, she shares her no-nonsense advice on fitness, (un)diet, motivation, and self belief to help you train for your goal. It's a mix of interviews and solo jam sessions you won't want to miss. So subscribe and get ready to blow your own mind.
Climb Your Mountain
#88 – How I'm Training Smarter-Not-Harder This Summer
I used to believe when it came to exercise, more was always more.
Especially for a multisport athlete who is running, backpacking, mountaineering and wanting to be ALWAYS READY TO ROLL at a moment's notice.
Also, as I cruised toward 50, I felt like I needed to work harder just to maintain a certain level of performance.
But this summer, I got tired of being exhausted.
Tired of grinding through my day job.
Tired of feeling irritated with every little thing. (Like I would knock over a can of Seltzer and fly into a rage.)
Tired of starting each weekend adventure exhausted from the last weekend adventure.
Tired of feeling spacey and not fully connected while coaching my clients.
So I did a crazy thing.
😱 I actually cut back my workouts by 30%.
And you know what?
I am absolutely loving the results!
I feel like I'm actually performing BETTER on my adventures.
And having more time and energy for everyone else in my life.
In this week's episode of the Climb Your Mountain podcast, I'll pull back the curtain and share exactly how I started working out smarter and not harder.
We'll go through the full before and after.
(And also why I didn't do it sooner. I had a lot of insecurities about cutting back. But they were just lies my brain was telling me.)
I hope this gives you so much permission to stop grinding and create a more joyous and sustainable fitness life!
COACH WITH SARAH:
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