Our 14th episode is an insightful discussion with Dr. Heather Bergeson, a sports medicine physician in the Twin Cities.  Dr. Bergeson’s work focuses on women’s health, particularly among female athletes.  Our conversation topics include Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports (REDs), the bias in sports coaching towards body size and image over performance and the pitfalls of the American youth sports culture.  Hope you enjoy the show. 

In the episode, we discuss a Tedx talk several years ago in which Dr. Bergeson challenges youth sports culture in America. You can see the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrlPuRfoGdY

Details about the Tria Female Athlete summit that is also discussed in the episode can be found at https://www.healthpartners.com/institute/tria-institute/tria-continuing-medical-education/female-athlete-summit/

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On August 10th, the host of the Fit and Healthy?/Healthy and Fit? podcast, Jason Digman, went for a bike ride. This was not a typical bike ride though. Jason started this ride in Gary, South Dakota at midnight with the intention of getting to Hager City, Wisconsin before the end of the day as a participant in the Day Across Minnesota (DAMn).  Spoiler alert, Jason made it.  He even had a good time.  This episode is a bit different from our typical interview format as Jason and his support crew, Matt Barrett and Bernie Digman chat about the particulars of Jason's day.  We also discuss how amazing the community and vibe of this event are along with how such long distance events relate to health and fitness.  

More details on the event itself can be found at https://the-damn.com

A good article on the 2024 event can be found at https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/08/13/challenge-of-the-damned-242-miles-24-hours-to-bike-across-minnesota?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR14kNNPCUwu729StPNzJz4vE12W2fljx-V71iqO0KkhxvLGuiHGZLTQPgE_aem_0PJ72ZNC3izDn8Bfv0Bs5A

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We are joined this week in a conversation that literally changed how I thought about my health. Last June, our guest Scott Penticoff went out for a run. It was not unlike many other days in Scott's life. Except this day was very different for Scott. During that fateful run, Scott experienced a heart attack and went into cardiac arrest.  We talk about this day and how it changed Scott's life and conceptions of health and fitness. 

For additional details on Scott's story, check out this local news article.  https://woodburymag.com/scott-penticoff-shares-his-story-with-cardiac-arrest/

Andrew Eccles, DPT of Loon State Physical Therapy talks health, wellness and athletic identity with us in our 11th episode. Andrew shares some great ways to think about health and being an athlete through the lifespan.  We hope you enjoy our conversation. Apologies about some background noise in the episode, we recorded at the Loon State facility which was busy with activity during our recording. 

More info at Andrew and Loon State can be found at https://www.loonstatephysicaltherapy.com

Excited to share our 10th episode, a wide-ranging conversation with Rasa Troup of Rasa Nutrition. Rasa has lived an amazing life. She grew up in Lithuania while it was still part of the Soviet Union, emigrated to the United States to attend school and run track. She's been to the Olympics (2008 in Beijing), has kids and runs her own nutrition company.   During our conversation Rasa shares wisdom with a humility and a commitment to make things better that was truly inspiring. Hope you enjoy the episode! 

We are back after a week off for the American holiday.  This episode is a thoughtful discussion with a long time friend and cyclist John Shishilla.  As John returned to cycling and better health after some tough years, and facing a new stage of his life, he refects and offers some great wisdom in an thoroughly enjoyable conversation.  We recorded this episode in the late winter and it is a great contrast to the long and active summer days. 

This week's episode of the "Fit and Healthy?/Healthy and Fit" podcast explores athletic identity, fitness and health with our guest Alyssa Leib. Alyssa shares her story of changes in how she thinks about fitness and health, particularly as a result of her recovery from an eating disorder.  We discuss how sports can improve with regards to conversation and action regarding disordered eating.  Host Jason Digman shares his personal day of thanks.  We recorded this episode a few months ago but we're releasing it just after this important day in the life of the show's host.  Thanks for listening. 

We talk with Kurt Perham from Personal Best Multisport about how fitness and health overlap for him, in the larger world of endurance sports, and among those who might not call themselves athletes at all.  Kurt shares how his athletic identity changed over the years as he's become and parent and then managing still not fully understood health issues.  Hope you enjoy the episode and please share our podcast, thanks. 

I had a lovely conversation with Cait Dumas-Hein of Grounded (Nebraska).  We touched on a number of important topics including how our athletic identity does not always match with our health, including a shared injury history at the hands of cyclcocross (somewhat kidding).  Most important of all, Cait's emphasis on peoples' perspective on safety at Gronded and in her work with bicycling advocacy was really useful to me, hoping to you listeners as well. 

I am joined by Ted Roseen, aka Yoga Ted, a yoga instructor and runner and running coach from Minneapolis, Minnesota. We talk about Ted's development as an athlete, his passion for yoga and how yoga and running are keys part of his life.  Both yoga and running, however, have not been static and how these changed over his life is a great lesson for all of us in balancing priorities and working to limit perfectionism.  Thanks to Ted for taking the time to chat, it was a fun conversation.