Seasoned Athlete

In this episode I talk to Amy Stone about her lifetime love of running. She entices us with years of ups and downs in Iron Man’s, Triathlons, and now Virtual Racing, and her experiences as a coach encouraging others with “internal motivation.” Full show notes: https://seasonedathlete.me/Connect with Amy Stone: https://www.amysaysso.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/seasoned-athlete/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, I talk about my journey during this past year around the sun. Normally it would consist of athletic achievements and athletic adventures, but this year changed my path and many others goals as well.I’ll be talking about a new type of challenge, the emotional and mental kind and how I’ve come through it so far and the lessons this year has taught me. Full show notes: https://seasonedathlete.me/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/seasoned-athlete/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode I talk to avid swimmer, Cath Pendleton. We talk about her swim filled childhood, how her triathlon experiences lead to ice swimming, and how she fared crossing the English Channel and swimming a mile in the waters of Antarctica.Full shownotes: https://seasonedathlete.me/episodesConnect with Cath: https://www.facebook.com/catherine.howard.33449138IG and Twitter: @swimcathswimSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/seasoned-athlete/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Daisy Purdy, president of the Inclusive Community Consulting. We talk about her journey into sports and fitness, how she used skating to raise funds for native lands and community health, as well as some of the unique experiences she’s had while at it.Donate to Mesas to Mountains hereInstagram: @mesas2mountainsFull shownotes: https://seasonedathlete.me/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/seasoned-athlete/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, I talk about the stereotypes about age that we face everyday through the news, on the internet, and all around us. Focusing on the fact that age is no limit to what you can do and what you can achieve. Full shownotes: https://seasonedathlete.meLearn more about ageUp! my revolutionary new membership community for women over 40 who want to age like athletes. Discover the life-changing benefits that come with exploring your athletic potential at any age or fitness background - become an ageUP! Founding Member at https://robinlegat.com/ageupSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/seasoned-athlete/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, I talk about how exploring your athletic potential can change your life. Becoming athletic at any age can improve physical health and mental health, while also inspiring empowerment and confidence. ageUP! is a revolutionary new membership community for women over 40 who want to age like athletes. This is your fast track to becoming fearless, feeling ageless and living LIMITLESS! Learn more: https://robinlegat.com/ageupConnect with Robin: https://seasonedathlete.meSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/seasoned-athlete/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, I have Selene Yeager, host of Hit Play, Not Pause: A Feisty Menopause Podcast. We talk about her life as an athlete, fitness writer, and author. She also shares her no-nonsense tips to maximize your fitness through perimenopause and beyond.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/seasoned-athlete/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you've been listening to the Seasoned Athlete Podcast and feeling overwhelmed by the stories or thinking "THEY can do it, but not me" this episode is for you.Connect with Robin Legat: https://seasonedathlete.meSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/seasoned-athlete/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, I am talking to Nikki Love about her amazing athletic journey including her 50th birthday celebration of 63 marathons in 63 days throughout the U.K. and her adventure of attempting a treadmill run across ‘Oz’; 2500 miles in 63 days.Connect with Nikki Love: nikkilove.co.ukConnect with Robin: https://seasonedathlete.meSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/seasoned-athlete/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The AGELESS Series gives you tools, advice, and a METHOD to help you adopt an AGELESS Mindset and live a bigger, bolder life!If you are striving to gain confidence, overcome obstacles on race courses and in your life, and age like an athlete - pay close attention to these episodes.Part Five of The AGELESS Series covers the next step in Robin’s AGELESS Method: Set Your Plans Into Action!This is the step that ties everything together!You can do everything in the previous steps to a T, but it doesn’t mean anything until you take action!In this episode, Robin shares her own personal stories about how she’s created Imperfect Action with her fitness goals and her life as a whole - which is even more important during a pandemic (when this was recorded).With an open mind and at times, some creative solutions, you can put the boldest plans into action. You can create something from nothing - which reaps massive rewards. And by putting all of these steps together, you can truly live an AGELESS life!Ready to go deeper a

The AGELESS Series gives you tools, advice, and a METHOD to help you adopt an AGELESS Mindset and live a bigger, bolder life!If you are striving to gain confidence, overcome obstacles on race courses and in your life, and age like an athlete - pay close attention to these episodes.Part Four of The AGELESS Series covers the next step in Robin’s AGELESS Method: Empower Your Confidence!An empowered mindset can be both a cause and an effect of living an AGELESS lifestyle. By pursuing big, bold goals, you may find yourself experiencing a boost in confidence that spreads out into all areas of your life.Conversely, you may hold yourself back from taking on bold challenges if you don’t believe you have the ability or capability to do it.So it’s important to work on your mental game from the start so you can open yourself up to achieve the goals you set for yourself…and experience the physical and, yes, mental and emotional benefits that come from achieving said goals.In this episode, I share three key components to e

The AGELESS Series gives you tools, advice, and a METHOD to help you adopt an AGELESS Mindset and live a bigger, bolder life!If you are striving to gain confidence, overcome obstacles on race courses and in your life, and age like an athlete - pay close attention to these episodes.Part Three of The AGELESS Series covers the next step in Robin’s AGELESS Method: Level Up Your Recovery!One of the most important things we can do to improve mobility for decades to come, prevent injury and ensure a long and fruitful athletic career is to make RECOVERY a primary priority. If you go back and listen to previous Seasoned Athlete episodes, you’ll hear countless stories about the importance of recovery for athletes who are staying active and athletic into their seventies, eighties and beyond.In this episode, I share three key components to recovery:The importance of sleep - it’s where the magic happens!Pre and post-workout recovery practicesWeekly and monthly recovery practicesJust like anything else, these are small hab

The AGELESS Series gives you tools, advice, and a METHOD to help you adopt an AGELESS Mindset and live a bigger, bolder life!If you are striving to gain confidence, overcome obstacles on race courses and in your life, and age like an athlete - pay close attention to these episodes.Part Two of The AGELESS Series covers Step 3 of Robin’s AGELESS Method: Eat for Athletic Aging!What does this mean?In short, it's eating to fuel that body to support an Athletic Aging lifestyle. Ensuring you have the energy and nutrients to take on the challenges you seek to take on. These can be fitness challenges, of course, but also work challenges, entrepreneurial challenges, or simply having the energy and vitality to take care of family and manage multiple responsibilities.Listen as Robin gives you some simple tools you can use to create and implement healthy habits around nutrition that will STICK!Ready to go deeper and take your first steps toward living an AGELESS Life? Grab your spot now for the AGELESS + AWESOME Virtu

This episode launches a special series we’re calling The AGELESS Series!The AGELESS Series will give you tools, advice, and a METHOD to help you adopt an AGELESS Mindset and live a bigger, bolder life!If you are striving to gain confidence, overcome obstacles on race courses and in your life, and age like an athlete - pay close attention to these episodes.Part One of The AGELESS Series covers the first two steps in Robin’s AGELESS Method:1. Assess Your Priorities: setting goals that are both workable but also exciting, inspiring and beyond your current reach.2. Get Your Body Strong: creating a streamlined fitness routine to remove overwhelm and keep you focused and moving toward that priority goal!Ready to go deeper and take your first steps toward living an AGELESS Life? Grab your spot now for the AGELESS + AWESOME Virtual Summit, taking place on Saturday, May 23rd 2020 at 2pm EDT/11am PDT. The AGELESS + AWESOME Virtual Summit is for women over 40 who want to gain confidence, overcome obstacles - whether the

This is the newest episode of the THREE THINGS I’M DOING TO OVERCOME OBSTACLES RIGHT NOW series, featuring interviews with women athletes over 40 about how they’re managing the real-life obstacles they’re facing in this new world we’re in.This episode features an interview with gym owner and personal trainer Stephanie Scott. Here’s what she shared:1. VIEW OBSTACLES AS OPPORTUNITIESSimilar to what Marissa Axell talked about in the first episode, Stephanie reiterated that it helps to view obstacles as opportunities. Instead of looking at the doors as closing in your life - think of creative ways that you can open new doors. 2. USE THIS TIME TO RECONNECTSince we are physically separated from friends and loved-ones during this time, Stephanie is using this time to go back to a lost art of communication - the phone. She’s finding comfort in simple telephone conversations with the people in her life. 3. GROW YOURSELFThere are more opportunities than ever to learn something new online. If there was ever something yo

In the nearly three years that Seasoned Athlete has been in existence, we have interviewed athletes ranging in age from 40-92 years old. In this episode, we talk to someone who now officially holds the new record for oldest athlete to be on the show. Meet 93-year old Richard “Monty” Montgomery, a Ft. Lauderdale-based army vet, retired firefighter, husband, father of two, grandfather of eight and great grandfather of two.Monty is the definition of late in life athlete AND young at heart. He ran his first triathlon at 48, first marathon at 58, went skydiving at 75, hang gliding at 89, bungee for his 90th birthday and now he’s doing Spartan Races.He has never met a challenge he isn’t willing to face! SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - RICHARD “MONTY” MONTGOMERYAge: 93Sport: Spartan Race (among many others!)Quote: “Just live life as full as you can.”Follow/contact:Instagram: @teammontyspartanOperation Enduring Warrior: http://enduringwarrior.orgSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/seasoned-athlete/donationsAdver

Life is coming at us pretty quickly these days, and with that comes new obstacles that pop up in our path. This new world we're all navigating can often be hard to manage, and sometimes it can be downright overwhelming. This is why I decided to launch a new Facebook Live series on where I talk to women athletes over 40 to get their unique perspective on how they are overcoming the new obstacles they've been facing recently.It's my hope that their stories, tips and advice can help give you some new perspective on how to overcome the obstacles that are unique to you and your life.In the first episode, I interviewed competitive cyclist and fitness coach Marissa Axell. Here is what she shared:1. BE ADAPTABLE, CREATIVE AND READY TO TAKE ACTION!Marissa is a fitness coach, and she had to change her business model to fully online at a moment's notice. She didn't have time to make it perfect - she just needed to make it happen. She views this as an opportunity more than an obstacle. Now is not the

In this episode, we share our chat with Marine Corps veteran, mother of four and Spartan Pro Team Member Faye Morgan. This interview was recorded last September - just days before the 2019 Spartan World Championships - at the Spartan World Media Fest presented by ATP Science. In our conversation, Faye talked about how she balances training and racing at the elite level with mom responsibilities for her four kids, and shared some deep and powerful perspective she learned from her time in the military about the opportunity to suffer as a choice.SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - FAYE MORGANAge: 42Sport: Obstacle RacingQuote: “I GET to do this.”Follow: @faymocrSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/seasoned-athlete/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, 2019 Spartan North American Champion and chiropractor Ryan Woods talks about how and why he's transitioned from a track athlete and road racer to trail runner and elite OCR athlete. As someone who has performed at a high level for most of his life, Ryan shares tips he's learned along the way as he himself pivots toward a new phase of his career as an over 40 athlete. We also talk about cats, which is definitely a first for Seasoned Athlete!This interview was recorded last September at the Spartan Media Fest presented by ATP Science.SEASONED ATHLETE STATS - RYAN WOODSAge: 40Sport: obstacle racing, trail runningQuote: “I find I’m better and healthier now because I take care of myself.”Follow Ryan on InstagramSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/seasoned-athlete/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

During the month of January, we are revisiting some of our most popular episodes of 2019. This episode was one of our most downloaded of the year and features Guinness World Record Holder and Cyclist Lynn Salvo.You may have seen her story in an article that came out last year in the Wall Street Journal highlighting stories of women over 50 sharing stories of midlife reinvention. In this interview, Lynn talks about the big life changes she started making in her fifties that would lead the way to an extraordinary endeavor to ride the shape of a peace sign across North America. Learn how this came about and the why behind it as we revisit Lynn’s story once again.Learn more:Lynn’s BlogLynn’s rides support the following causes:American Friends Service CommitteeCanadian Friends Service CommitteeSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/seasoned-athlete/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy