Communication, Flexibility, and Being Realistic - The Real Keys to Happiness in Sport?

By Carrie Barrett (with additional contributions by Pat Spencer, LCSW)

Exercise is good for your mental health. Running, biking, and regularly engaging in physical activity have been proven to...

If our sports are going to find new audiences and new stars, then it’s going to have to come from somewhere new. If our sports are to have a growing future, then the future will look female.

By Kelly O’Mara

Earlier this spring, 12.6 million viewers tuned in to the...

By Jessica Michalofsky (@marathon.for.safe.supply)

In 2020, just before everything got crazy with the pandemic, I was training for Ironman Penticton. I was also working on an MA in Cultural, Social, and Political studies at the University of Victoria on the topic of mothering and...

Stroller runs, zero-dark thirty wake-up calls, weight-vest training to optimize the limited time you have, training through divorce…These women refuse to let motherhood become a barrier to their personal goals. 

By Carrie Barrett

Special thanks to Orca for helping...

What you say to yourself matters. Here’s how to make it good.

By Selene Yeager

We all have voices in our heads. Some are positive, like the “hell yeah, good job!” you give yourself when you nail a hard lift in the gym. Others are less than positive. They’re...

“I began to feel the pull of the finish line and the joy of the podium and then, seemingly out of nowhere, the pavement started moving rapidly towards my face. And the world went black.”  

By Sara Gross 

In 2009, I was one of the favorites going into Ironman...

Female athletes face special health risks from pushing too far into the red. Here’s how to stay in the training-recovery sweet spot.

By Selene Yeager

Training is a balancing act. You push, push, push, overreaching just enough to make your body go, “Woah, she’s...

It works for the U.S. Women’s National Team. It can work for you, too.

By Selene Yeager

We use a lot of metrics to guide our training: our heart rate variability, our resting and training heart rate, our power numbers, maybe even our moods and sleep scores. There’s...

Unless we lift while we climb, many are left behind.

By Selene Yeager

Women have been demanding equal spaces in athletics for as long as there have been women who want to run, jump, swim, bike, and play sports. And in 1972 in the U.S., we made a giant step forward with the passing...

Here are the golden nuggets of wisdom from nearly 50 episodes of Hit Play Not Pause this year.

By Selene Yeager

 *** This article was first published on Feisty Menopause on December 6th, 2022 ***

It’s that time of year when we look back at what we’ve learned...

With help from Maurya Couvares - pregnant triathlete

Over the past two weeks on the Women’s Performance Podcast, we have delved deep into pregnancy as an athlete. Interviewing both a researcher, as well as a pregnant athlete, one highlight really stood out:  it is extremely hard...

We are all just a few steps away from breakthrough performances. Record-setting professional endurance athlete Alyssa Godesky tells us how to go the extra mile. 

By Amelia Perry

Every endurance athlete has stared down the wall–that place where everything hurts,...