In this Find Your Edge podcast, Chris Newport sits down with physical therapist Mbong Henry from Radiance PT. She enjoys working with postpartum runners, but enjoys helping anyone with pelvic floor challenges, including stress incontinence, accidental leakage, lower back pain and more.

We discuss:

• Why you shouldn’t wait to have your pelvic floor health issues addressed
• What percentage of women who have NOT had babies have pelvic floor issues
• Whey kegels are not always the answer to solving pelvic floor issues for runners
• How stress in certain muscles can affect your pelvic floor
• What hormones are in your pelvic floor and why that matters for pre/postpartum women and menopausal female runners
• How grace and self-compassion can keep you doing what you love (running, jumping, and more!)

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• 🥗 Guide to High Performance Healthy Eating
• 🏊‍♀️ 6 Steps to Triathlon Success: Free Guide
• 💧 Hydration Guide for Athletes
• 🏃‍♂️ Runner's Fueling & Hydration Cheat Sheet

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Are you ready for your next triathlon, SwimRun or open water swim? You've been putting in hours at the pool, refining your technique, improving efficiency, and gaining endurance and speed. Now it's time to transition to the open water. Here are 9 tips to get you into the lake or ocean successfully while conserving energy and boosting your confidence Coach Chris and The Endurance Edge.  

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• 💧 Hydration Guide for Athletes
• 🏃‍♂️ Runner's Fueling & Hydration Cheat Sheet

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Can you fuel your ride, run or triathlon (or other sport) with real food?

YES!

In this Find Your Edge podcast, Chris Newport describes the options for using real food that are easily portable for running, cycling, triathlon or other exercise like hiking, mountaineering, rock climbing and more. There are plenty of reasons why athletes avoid sports drinks and other engineered products like gels or energy chews. Whether they don't agree with your gut or they don't taste good, or they are too expensive, here are some options for portable foods for pre, during and post exercise. 

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• 🏊‍♀️ 6 Steps to Triathlon Success: Free Guide
• 💧 Hydration Guide for Athletes
• 🏃‍♂️ Runner's Fueling & Hydration Cheat Sheet

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Have you ever wondered about supplement safety, quality and effectiveness?

Well, we do too. In fact, our dietitians go to great lengths to ensure we match the safest, most effective and highest quality supplements for each clients' health and fitness goals, genetics and needs. Whether they're used for athletic performance or health purposes, it's important to know what supplements are right for you.

In today's episode, Chris Newport, Find Your Edge Podcast host and The Endurance Edge head integrative and functional medical nutrition therapist and performance dietitian, sits down with Dr Viegas from the Fullscript medical advisory board to review supplement safety, quality & effectiveness. Read more, listen and watch the episode here. 

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• 🏃‍♂️ Runner's Fueling & Hydration Cheat Sheet

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In this Find Your Edge podcast episode, host Chris Newport sits down Thomas Henson, Jr from HensonFuerst Attoneys. Thomas is not only an avid cyclist, but an experienced personal injury attorney.

We discuss

• Insurance you NEED as a cyclist (or athlete involved in sports near/around vehicles)
• What to do if you're in a cycling accident
• Best practices for cycling safely to avoid accidents

Go here for the full episode, links and video

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• 🥗 Guide to High Performance Healthy Eating
• 🏊‍♀️ 6 Steps to Triathlon Success: Free Guide
• 💧 Hydration Guide for Athletes
• 🏃‍♂️ Runner's Fueling & Hydration Cheat Sheet

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After helping countless athletes over the years, we know that healthy eating can be tough. To help make it easier, our sports nutritionists created a simple 6 Step System for High Performance Healthy Eating. It helps keep you performing your best both physically and mentally. It helps fight inflammation, boost immunity, support lean muscle tissue and maintain focus.

In this short episode, we get back to basics and healthy eating reminders. Learn more and download our Free High Performance Healthy Eating Guide on our website here.

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• 🥗 Guide to High Performance Healthy Eating
• 🏊‍♀️ 6 Steps to Triathlon Success: Free Guide
• 💧 Hydration Guide for Athletes
• 🏃‍♂️ Runner's Fueling & Hydration Cheat Sheet

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Find Your Edge Podcast host Chris Newport sits down with our longest tenured client and "most mature" athlete (he's 68 years young) John Murphy to talk about how he's been able to stay in endurance sports for so long.

We discuss:

• Why being a "back of the pack" finisher is totally fine and how long it took him to accept it (or has he?)
• Why hanging out with athletes keeps him feeling young
• How he finally got convinced to start strength training
• How he handles disappointment
• One of the best moments in Coach Chris' career, where John was the very last finisher at an Ironman race
• Why recovery is so critical and how he is able to decide whether he trains or not
• How he continues to improve despite not having any fancy gadgets
• How giving up running has helped him continue in endurance sports
• John's "quirk" about race medals (and where you can find them)
• How John stays active (this applies to ANY age)

Finally, stick around for John's simple, yet crucial tips to help you stay active in endurance sports (whether you race or not)!

Want to train with us?

Learn more about our 1-on-1 coaching programs here or our Team Training Program here. Our coaches can't wait to help you!

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• 🥗 Guide to High Performance Healthy Eating
• 🏊‍♀️ 6 Steps to Triathlon Success: Free Guide
• 💧 Hydration Guide for Athletes
• 🏃‍♂️ Runner's Fueling & Hydration Cheat Sheet

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We Are Back!

After taking a short break from our Find Your Edge podcast we are so excited to be back in action! We wanted to kick off our return by introducing our triathlon coaches at The Endurance Edge. 

In this episode Coach Chris sits down with the rest of the coaching staff Marty, Carlie and Ryan to discuss:

• how they each got into triathlon
• what their favorite part of the sport is
• what the hardest part of the sport is
• something they wish they knew when they first got started

Take a listen and get to know our coaches and hopefully get inspired to try triathlon yourself!

The top things our coaches want new triathletes to know

1. Get a coach
2. Be consistent
3. You can do anything
4. Find a community: it's way more fun!

Want to work with us?

Check us out at TheEnduranceEdge.com and book your free consult to learn more about our 1-on-1 coaching programs and Team Triathlon Training program. 

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• 🥗 Guide to High Performance Healthy Eating
• 🏊‍♀️ 6 Steps to Triathlon Success: Free Guide
• 💧 Hydration Guide for Athletes
• 🏃‍♂️ Runner's Fueling & Hydration Cheat Sheet

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In this Find Your Edge podcast episode, host Chris Newport interviews Yael Joffe to dive into genetics, training and performance. We discuss how understanding your genetics is so critical in affecting your decisions about training, exercise programming, recovery and more.

Yeal describes:

• How performance is relevant whether you’re an Olympic athlete, recreational athlete, or even a non-athlete
• Current problems in genetic testing on the market and how the 3x4 report is different by focusing on systems, cellular function and more
• Why some athletes respond differently to exercise training than others depending on genetics. She says, “We don’t need to be Olympic athletes to improve.”
• Why some of us are more likely to get injured during training than others and how that can change the way you train
• How your genetic insights (and not just HRV, HR, etc) are the key to improving your performance
• Why “set” training programs may not be a great fit for training according to your genes
• How endurance and power training are interrelated and what activities best match our potential (and mental health and enjoyment)
• Why “exercise for life” is so important
• How genetics can help you determine what workouts are the best for the amount of time you have to train and the amount of recovery you need
• How mental health, mood and neurotransmitters are related to performance and even exercise addiction 
• What dopamine does and how it’s related to anxiety, depression, nutrition, exercise and meditation
• How genetics drives what we eat, how we eat and when we eat (no, it’s not about willpower)
• Why caffeine metabolism affects our mental and physical performance differently (and why that matters for ingesting it before and during exercise)
• How methylation and B vitamins are critical for performance and how they are genetically related
• Why purchasing supplements from the grocery store shelf (or Amazon) is a terrible idea
• Why having a good Dietitian to help you navigate supplement choices for your optimal health and performance is so important

In case you missed it, here’s the first episode we did with Yael Joffe of 3x4 Geneti

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• 🥗 Guide to High Performance Healthy Eating
• 🏊‍♀️ 6 Steps to Triathlon Success: Free Guide
• 💧 Hydration Guide for Athletes
• 🏃‍♂️ Runner's Fueling & Hydration Cheat Sheet

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In this Find Your Edge podcast, host Chris Newport talks with John Yeager. As the co-author of The Coaching Zone: Next Level Leadership in Sports, John is the executive director of The Coaching Zone Initiative and CEO of The Yeager Leadership Group.

• Should we eliminate labeling ourselves in sport, like “I’m slow?” John suggests actually focusing less on eliminating labels, being less judgemental and being more mindful in the present moment and working on some strategies to address the thoughts and emotions as they come up and using a “task relevant cue” 
• John notes how endurance athletes can start to understand their strengths, positive or negative emotions and identify their “blindsports.” He also talks about how it’s important to identify your own story and how that can benefit you instead of impede you. 
• Learn what a “task relevant cue” cue is and how it’s important. John shares a great example from his own experience of running in a race where he finished “dead last,” but was able to learn the notion of “HERO”  
• How the acronym HERO (hope, efficacy, resilience and optimism) and psychological capital is key to performance and how it can be grown over time
• How the simple action of touching your thumb to your index finger can help you with positive self talk
• How mindfulness, slowing down, accepting and tolerating is important when we’re feeling HALTS (hungry, angry, lonely, tired or stressed out), and why it takes practice to elicit positive self talk
• How to start working on mindfulness and positive self talk without being judgemental, including the book The Power of Mindfulness: Mindfulness Meditation Training in Sport by one of his students Amy Balzell 
• How visualization (and maybe even YouTube) can help you prepare for race day and why
• How accountability partners or a team can help you succeed mentally and physically
• Why being on a team with people of various fitness levels and experiences is important for positive psychology as well as “vulnerability-trust”

Want to join our Team of supportive athletes and coaches? Virtual and in-person options are available, learn more at The Endurance Edge Team Training Programs here. 

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📚 Download our free resources:

• 🥗 Guide to High Performance Healthy Eating
• 🏊‍♀️ 6 Steps to Triathlon Success: Free Guide
• 💧 Hydration Guide for Athletes
• 🏃‍♂️ Runner's Fueling & Hydration Cheat Sheet

🌐 Find us here: TheEnduranceEdge.com
🏆 Race with us: Humans of Steel Olympic & Sprint Triathlon at Harris Lake, NC
💊 Purchase Safe Supplements here (you'll be prompted to create an account)
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