Climb Your Mountain
Life coach, mountaineer, and ultra runner Sarah Maurer shares her best endurance training strategies to help you climb your mountain or run your race — in any body at any age. Listen and learn how to eat, train, think, and above all live like a mountain athlete. Each week, Sarah will teach you practical strategies to overcome self-doubt, deal with training setbacks, save time, and stay happy and healthy through the long training season. Sarah earned her high altitude mountaineering certificate from Colorado Mountain Club in 2017 at age 41 and has since summited peaks in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and the USA, including Mount Rainier. She's also completed six (and counting) ultramarathons. She's living, breathing proof that you don't need to be 22 and have 6% body fat to be an endurance athlete. On this podcast, she shares her no-nonsense advice on fitness, (un)diet, motivation, and self belief to help you train for your goal. It's a mix of interviews and solo jam sessions you won't want to miss. So subscribe and get ready to blow your own mind.
Climb Your Mountain
#41 – The Better Sleep Episode
I know we've all been beaten over the head with the need to sleep more. And I can tell you as a coach and personal trainer that SOME OF IT IS HYPE.
However, a good night's sleep has many benefits:
- Cleanses your brain of neurotoxins
- Promotes neuroplasticity, change, and emotional shifts
- Regulates your hormones and metabolism (can even help you lose weight)
- Promotes deep cellular healing (so essential for you Long Covid peeps!)
- Improves focus and productivity
- Gives your mood a boost
So in this podcast episode, I'm going to share some tools to help you fall asleep quickly and easily.
We'll cover:
- The winning sleep mindset
- How to slow down internal processing
- How to quiet self talk
- And more!
Resources Mentioned:
- Colorado Alpine Trail Runs book
- Faster EFT
- Bilateral stimulation
- Stacey's podcast on Protecting the Asset
- Sarah's Instagram