Did you know there are a few non-contact injuries that are more prevalent in female athletes? Some of these include ACL tears in the knee and concussions. There are a few reasons why this happens, but one of the main reasons is because the reality is that most female athletes don’t get access to strength training early enough in their life and sport.

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Have you ever felt like the “endurance coaching world” is extremely crowded?

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A very common misconception around sports is that athletes are at their peak health of their life when they’re also achieving peak performance.

Have you ever struggled with sports nutrition during training or events? Or have you been struggling with fatigue daily or have noticed that your energy just isn’t the same during workouts as it has been in the past?

- What specific patterns to become aware of around fueling and nutrition, which will help you create a strategy to overcome them 

- How to combine both health AND performance, especially if you have heard, or ever thought that peak performance comes at a sacrifice to your health 

- And if you can't find time to work on your nutrition or health, maybe we just need to look at this with a different perspective If you'd like to grab the free guide I mentioned on how to build a foundation for a healthy body and peak performance, head to drkirstin.com/finishstrong In the guide, we cover the pillars to creating that foundation including: gut health, inflammation, micronutrient deficiencies and more. 

The first step to improving is awareness and you can start that today. 

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Have you ever wanted to achieve a goal but felt challenged to either get started or stay consistent to reach that goal?

How do you become an Athlete that performs at your peak capabilities AND also has thriving health? The answer may be simpler than you think! In this episode, I have Nicci Robertson from Reinvent Health with us and we break down where people, and athletes, have experienced a lot of confusion around nutrition - particularly with protein! Most people and athletes make the mistake of not eating enough protein or thinking that meat is bad for their health, but Nicci helps us break down where this belief came from and how we can use protein to help us perform better, lose weight, improve our metabolism, overall health and more - and we’ll tell you how to do that!

This episode is all about learning how to fuel properly as an endurance athlete by combining what is needed for sports performance AND how that all interacts with what is going on inside your body. It’s easy to make mistakes here because there are SO many options and opinions in the space, but when we look at what research is saying AND consider what happens with your gut and cells it makes it a lot less confusing.

If you have searched for answers to unexplained pain, symptoms and fatigue that is keeping your performance in your sport stagnant or declining… it might be because you’re focusing on external factors when the problem is going on inside your body. In this episode, I’m talking about how you can break free of pain, symptoms and fatigue, and perform at your peak performance and at the levels you know you’re capable of. Tune in and I’ll show you where you start and finally get answers and to the root cause of what’s causing your symptoms so that you can get back to enjoying your sport and doing what you love.

This episode is one that any type of athlete, no matter what level they are at, needs to hear.

In this episode, I talk all about critical mistakes athletes can make around recovery even though it absolutely might be the “right thing to do” - just maybe not specifically for them. Sometimes we don’t realize that practices that should work, and do work, for most athletes, can actually cause more stress and lead you to becoming a fit... but fatigued athlete dealing with symptoms, performance stagnation or decline and pain, inflammation and feeling run down. I am going to share one very critical tip that will change the way you see recovery and I’m sharing 4 areas you want to master in order to improve your recovery to achieve peak performance and doing it all symptom free.

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If you’ve struggled with sleep or sacrificed sleep to fit more in your day, then you know what it feels like to be slow to wake up, need a mega dose of coffee to get going, or feel the energy drain towards the end of the day. You may also feel like your energy in your training/workouts is low or it takes you FOREVER to get over soreness from workouts. Maybe it takes you a million years to fall asleep, or you wake up multiple times in the night and struggle to get back to sleep.

And wouldn’t it be nice to get really good quality sleep during the hours that you have to sleep? If you’re a fit but fatigued athlete, what’s caused you to feel run down, tired, and experiencing symptoms including aches and pains is rooted in the foundation of your health and the way to turn it around is by focusing on the ENTIRE system.

In this episode we are going to go beyond nutrition and talk about how to become a fit and healthy athlete that thrives and experiences peak performance by focusing on 1 important piece of the puzzle, which is sleep.

I’m giving you 2 specific things you can do tonight that can help you sleep - and a few things you’re doing that you may want to STOP doing that are likely affecting your sleep quality as well.

And for those of you that travel a lot for business and/or your sport - I’ve got a few tips in here as well to help you with jet lag so that you can perform at your best even when you’re traveling.

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Ready to dive deeper? Head to drkirstin.com/finishstrong to download your next steps to first bring awareness to what you specifically need and then I’ll give you the steps to start improving your health and achieve your next 9-11 hour Ironman or peak performance by working on the whole system and going deeper than just nutrition, fueling and hydration strategies.