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Modus Cafe: Conversations Beyond Climbing71. Avoiding the Nutritional Pitfalls That Hold Climbers BackHey climbers, listen up! In today's episode Mercedes Pollmeier and Clinical Nutritionist, Amanda Fitt, discuss nutrition pitfalls that hold climbers back. If you're a Modus Training member, you're familiar with Amanda as our nutrition expert and the important and valuable workshops that take place in the membership! We jump right in with the most common nutrition mistake, then we explore myths of fasting, and the critical roles of carbohydrates and hydration. Don't miss the practical tips for climbers to optimize your nutrition for better performance and recovery.
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The Nourished Athlete PodcastEP 09 | Does Cycle Syncing Actually Work for Outdoor Athletes? With Casey WestbrookCycle syncing has taken the fitness and nutrition world by storm, with social media touting it as the secret to optimizing women's health. But is it really the magic solution it’s made out to be, especially for outdoor athletes? In this episode, special guest and strength & conditioning coach Casey Westbrook and I unpack the hype around cycle syncing and explore why it might not be as practical as it seems for those of us hitting the trails, crags, or roads.We discuss:The natural shifts in energy and performance that outdoor athletes might no...2025-01-1136 min
The Nourished Athlete PodcastEp 08 | 5 Essential Tips for Food Tracking as an Athlete to Fuel Smarter, Not HarderIn this episode, host and Clinical Nutritionist Amanda Fitt dives into the world of food tracking for outdoor athletes. Whether you’ve considered tracking your food but don’t know where to start, or you’re curious about how to optimize your nutrition for performance, this episode is packed with practical insights and actionable tips.Highlights from this episode:Why the Cronometer app is my go-to platform for food tracking.How to establish a baseline of your current intake without making changes.The importance of accurate food measurement and when precision matters most.Addressing concer...2024-12-1829 minModus Cafe: Conversations Beyond Climbing49. Listener Q&A + Climbing Training MembershipToday we're answering our listener's questions! Also, it's OPEN ENROLLMENT for our Climbing Training Membership! The Modus motto "Strong, Healthy Humans Make Strong, Healthy Climbers" is clear in today's episode where you'll learn just why we care for and coach the whole person - not just the climber. Also, get a peek of the basic framework of our membership and hear some Listener Q&A's about balancing priorities, making friends at the wall, getting enough protein, and more!
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Link to the...2024-10-0151 minModus Cafe: Conversations Beyond Climbing36. Climbing Nutrition Misconceptions | Amanda FittIn this episode, Amanda Fit joins us to chat nutrition for climbers.
Nutrition is always a difficult topic because it's so heavily based on individual needs.
But in this episode, Amanda covers some general ideas for you so you can make the best nutrition choices for yourself as a climber and athlete.
Some topics covered:
Why fueling during your session is so important.
Fueling for longer sessions
The need for sugar in the diet.
The best carbohydrate choices
Packing the perfect lunch
Specific recommendations for the amount of carbs and proteins
Want...2024-07-0245 min
Fitt Insider229. Amanda Rees, Co-founder & CEO of BoldToday, I’m joined by Amanda Rees, co-founder & CEO of Bold. A fitness-based approach to healthy aging, Bold’s personalized exercise programs help older adults build strength, ease pain, and prevent falls. Partnering with Medicare, the platform aims to replace musculoskeletal disability with lifelong vitality. In this episode, we talk about tailoring fitness to an underserved demographic. We also cover: • Amanda’s experience as a caregiver and fitness instructor • The importance of fall prevention for seniors • Bold’s partnership with Medicare Subscribe to the podcast → insider.fitt.co/podcast...2024-03-1936 minFitt Insider229. Amanda Rees, Co-founder & CEO of BoldToday, I’m joined by Amanda Rees, co-founder & CEO of Bold. A fitness-based approach to healthy aging, Bold’s personalized exercise programs help older adults build strength, ease pain, and prevent falls. Partnering with Medicare, the platform aims to replace musculoskeletal disability with lifelong vitality. In this episode, we talk about tailoring fitness to an underserved demographic. We also cover: • Amanda’s experience as a caregiver and fitness instructor • The importance of fall prevention for seniors • Bold’s partnership with Medicare Subscribe to the podcast → insider.fitt.co/podcast...2024-03-1936 min
The Nourished Athlete PodcastEp 07 | Unveiling Cortisol: From Stress to Hormones to Blood Sugar Get ready to uncover the hidden links between stress, blood sugar, inflammation, and your hormones! In today's episode, we're diving deep into the hormone cortisol. We cover: the many hats cortisol wears, different types of stressors (hint: these may not be what you think!), the stress response and the HPA axis, "burn out," cortisol's impact on blood sugar regulation & sex hormones, and more. Per usual, Amanda delivers actionable nutrition & lifestyle tips on how to nurture your stress response for optimal cortisol levels, plus testing considerations to fully uncover where your personal cortisol levels are actually at. Buckle up, it's...2023-08-2831 min
The Nourished Athlete PodcastEp 06 | CGM: sharing my recent experience & biggest takeaways CGM stands for continuous glucose monitor. This snazzy piece of technology allows you to monitor your blood sugar levels in real time. This literally means IMMEDIATE biofeedback on how your food, stress levels, and lifestyle impacts your blood sugar. I recently used one for the first time: in this episode, I share my whole experience from the application, meal tracking, metrics, biggest takeaways, and more.Purchase CGM's on your own from Veri with my discount code --> click here to apply the discount right away, or use PURELYNOURISHED at checkoutClick here to learn more about 1:1 coaching opportunities for...2023-07-2333 min
The Nourished Athlete PodcastEp 05 | PROTEIN: debunking myths, how much you should be really eating, protein timing, and more!In this episode, Amanda answers listener questions on all things PROTEIN! Bro-tein (sorry bros, it’s just fun to say!) is a crucial macronutrient that serves a variety of functions in the body, including comprising skeletal muscle, certain hormones, antibodies, transport proteins, enzymes, and so much more. Because of the far reaching functions that proteins have in the body, under consuming protein can have detrimental consequences on a vast number of bodily systems, especially for athletes and active individuals. In this episode we cover how much protein you should be consuming daily, if all protein sources are created equally, wh...2022-11-1031 min
The Nourished Athlete PodcastEP 04 | How not to eff up your transition from an off-season to a performance season. In this episode, Amanda shares her top 5 nutrition & lifestyle mistakes to avoid when transitioning from an off season (or training block) to a performance season. Optimizing the transition between seasons is critical for increasing your potential for success, reducing your chance of injury, and especially lessening the potential for a burn out mid season. Amanda walks you through the most common mistakes she sees athletes make during this make-or-break period, and shares tips for how you can avoid them. At the end of the episode, she answers a few listener questions that were submitted on this topic. If you...2022-09-2943 min
The Nourished Athlete PodcastEP 03 | Healthy hormones for athletes with a periodIn this episode, Amanda breaks down what the phrase "healthy hormones" actually means: we discuss what hormones, organs, and bodily systems are all involved in the regulation of hormone balance, what symptoms & conditions present from dysregulation of these different systems, how dysregulated hormones can impact your performance as an athlete, and finally, what to focus on to improve your hormone balance as well as actionable tips to get you started. At the end of the episode, I answer a few listener questions that cover hormonal acne, eating & training with your cycle, and tips for managing painful/ irregular periods: if...2022-09-1558 min
The Nourished Athlete PodcastEP 02 | How to Fuel for Indoor Climbing SessionsProperly fueling for your indoor climbing sessions can be an absolute game changer. Just by timing your food correctly (i.e. eating the right things at the right times) you have more energy to train, have more efficient sessions (because you aren’t bonking halfway through), recover faster, and honestly have more fun at the gym (because being a hangry monster is never fun). This episode will breakdown what strategic fueling or "nutrient timing" actually means, WHEN to eat before, during, and after your sessions, WHAT TYPE of fuel is the most effective during those various time frames, as we...2022-09-0831 min
The Nourished Athlete PodcastEP 01 | Baseline Nutrition: what it is, and how you can improve.In this episode we cover the concept of baseline nutrition. What you eat "day-to-day" is just as important (if not more) as your precision fueling strategies (i.e. what you eat before, during, and after your sessions). Optimizing your baseline nutrition is essential for ensuring your fueling strategies actually work long term, and is crucial for creating good health. You'll learn what baseline nutrition actually is, how overall energy intake, macronutrients, micronutrients, and balancing your blood sugar all play a role in your baseline nutrition, as well as where most athletes go wrong. You'll walk away from this episode...2022-09-0116 min
The Nourished Athlete PodcastThe Purely Nourished Podcast TrailerWelcome to the Purely Nourished Podcast! A space for outdoor athletes and outdoor minded individuals who want to improve their athletic performance, and feel their absolute best. If you are a climber, mountain biker, trail runner, hiker, alpinist, or a jack of all trades who struggles with sorting through the abundance of nutritional information out there, and who wants to eat in a way to not only just crush your goals, but to also improve your overall health & wellbeing- then you have come to the right place.Each episode will be hosted by Amanda Fitt- nutritionist, health...2022-08-2804 min
Non-Diet Companion™Amanda Fitt: Weight-Neutral Nutrition for Climbing and Other Athletic PerformanceIn this episode, I had a fantastic conversation with Amanda Fitt. Amanda is a nutrition coach for rock climbers and outdoor athletes who want to fuel their bodies and level up their performance, without dieting or restriction.
Rock climbing is a sport where the strength to weight ratio can impact performance. It's common for climbers to carefully control or drop weight for the purpose of improving performance or "send" (make it to the top of) that elusive project. However, is there another approach that may be better for improving performance, overall health, and long-term well-being?
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The Ambitious Entrepreneur#128: Fueling to Optimize Athletic Performance, Gentle Nutrition + Protein Powder w/ Amanda FittToday on the podcast Chelsea interviews Certified Sports Nutrition Specialist, Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach + Clinical Nutrition graduate student Amanda Fitt.Amanda has been running Purely Nourished, her private nutrition coaching practice, since early 2018. Amanda works with climbers and outdoor athletes to improve their performance, increase their training potential, and optimize their overall health, without dieting or restriction.In this episode Chelsea + Amanda talk about:+ the difference between nutritionists, dietitians and health coaches+ how to come back from unintentionally under-fueling+ recommendations for fueling for a day out at the crag and a train...2022-05-091h 06
The Mindfully Resilient PodcastFinding Self-Worth and Love with Amanda Almond | Ep 36Worthiness is something many struggle with regularly, not realizing that they have a lot to offer the world and to themselves. In this empowering episode of The Mindfully Resilient Podcast, Josef sits down with Amanda Brush Almond, IronMan Triathlete, Conditioning Coach, and friend, as she shares her inspiring stories of worthiness and love. Her journey is a beautiful reminder that you are worthy; that you are enough, regardless of what you may have been led to believe throughout your life.
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Live Let Thrive PodcastEpisode 153: Agent/Investor/Airbnber/Digital Nomad: Amanda The Traveling Realtor!She does it all! All while living in beautiful places around the world. She's Amanda the Traveling Realtor! Agent, RE Investor, Airbnber, Digital Nomad, If her story doesn't inspire you, I don't know what will. Start LIVING LETTING AND THRIVING Y'ALL!!!
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The Project Roots and Wings podcastInfluential Women Series Episode 2: A Rediscovery of SELF with Amanda AlmondIn today’s episode Scott and Emily welcome Amanda Almond! Amanda is a Kona Iron Man Triathlon World Championship participant, The World Half Iron Man World Championship participant, coach and world class fitness instructor. We hope Amanda’s story will resonate with you at many levels. Amanda is raw and vulnerable. Her transparency is disarming and liberating. Amanda owns her story and shares the lessons of how she was able to rise from some very low spots in her life, learn principles and tap into the depth of her strength. That strength, finally allowed her to see her intrinsic worthiness...2021-02-121h 25
Positive SparkPlugAmanda Brush Returns, We all Have an IronMan within us! Run your race!In this episode, Amanda Brush and I discuss Life since she last was on the podcast 2 years ago. Her transparency within sharing her story of how she navigated her way through divorce, training and Running her biggest IRONman to date all at the same time. It doesn't stop there, she discusses how she planned 2020 To be HER YEAR since the last two felt like she was just going through the motion most of the time with waves of emotion coming from each side of the spectrum. She discusses how Covid19 had her have to reframe the year into a way...2020-05-051h 41
The Girl Gang PodcastEpisode 74: Lindsay Huelse - FITT Cycle founder and Fitness Guru. Carb cycling, and no diets!This week we've got FITT Cycle founder Lindsay Huelse out of Houston, Texas! She created an entirely online fitness company around the need to help women learn how to eat right, get fit, and still enjoy their life! Tune in to hear us talk about how life is right now in #quarantine and more! MORE ON LINDSAYOnline, at-home | Be part of something great . Helping women achieve their health + wellness goals! WEBSITE FITT CYCLE APP INSTAGRAM.--- Send in a voice messa...2020-04-0942 min
Fitt InsiderEpisode #8: Lisa Blau, co-founder of Able PartnersToday I’m joined by Lisa Blau. Lisa is a co-founder of Able partners. On today’s episode, we talked to Lisa about the boundless nature of the wellness industry, how startups can find success by breaking down land-held stigmas, and the importance of building a strong brand. I had a great time chatting with Lisa and hope you enjoy listening. Let’s get into it. More from Lisa Blau and Able Partners >> Lisa Blau has spent the last d...2019-11-2628 minFitt InsiderEpisode #8: Lisa Blau, co-founder of Able PartnersToday I’m joined by Lisa Blau. Lisa is a co-founder of Able partners. On today’s episode, we talked to Lisa about the boundless nature of the wellness industry, how startups can find success by breaking down land-held stigmas, and the importance of building a strong brand. I had a great time chatting with Lisa and hope you enjoy listening. Let’s get into it. More from Lisa Blau and Able Partners >> Lisa Blau has spent the last d...2019-11-2628 min
Fitt InsiderEpisode #2: Amanda Eilian, co-founder of Able PartnersToday I’m joined by Amanda Eilian. Amanda is a co-founder of Able partners. In today’s episode, we talked about Amanda’s experience as an investor in the positive living space, her take on the future of the wellness industry—including mental health and psychedelics, and her advice for founders looking to break into the space. I had a great time chatting with Amanda and hope you enjoy listening. More from Amanda Eilian & Able Partners >> Amanda Eilian is the co-fo...2019-10-1536 minFitt InsiderEpisode #2: Amanda Eilian, co-founder of Able PartnersToday I’m joined by Amanda Eilian. Amanda is a co-founder of Able partners. In today’s episode, we talked about Amanda’s experience as an investor in the positive living space, her take on the future of the wellness industry—including mental health and psychedelics, and her advice for founders looking to break into the space. I had a great time chatting with Amanda and hope you enjoy listening. More from Amanda Eilian & Able Partners >> Amanda Eilian is the co-fo...2019-10-1536 min
Ratt Talk PodcastEp. 75: Fitt TalkSorry for the late post but here it is!
Johnny Thunders (not the rock star) and his life partner Kristen Hope are in to tell us about their journey in fitness and how it has changed their lives for the better and how they have motivated us to take this journey as well. Tune in and be safe out there!
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