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
#91 – The 3 Steps I’d Take if I Missed a Week of Workouts
In this week's episode of the Climb Your Mountain podcast, we dive into a common struggle for perfectionists and athletes alike: missed workouts.
Whether you’re training for an endurance event like a marathon or just exercising to look and feel better, skipping a workout can send you into a spiral of panic and guilt.
I know this firsthand, having transitioned from a personal trainer for outdoor endurance athletes (hiking, mountaineering, trail running) to a health and wellness coach for pressured perfectionists.
What We Cover:
- What we make missed workouts mean versus reality
- The truth about deconditioning — and why most of us worry way too much about losing fitness.
- How panic over missed workouts can actually set your fitness back further.
- Why missed workouts may actually be a blessing in disguise for overachieving athletes.
- My personal story of running a half marathon PR after missing all my peak training.
- Practical tips to help you ease back into fitness the smart way after a week off.
Are You a Pressured Perfectionist Ready to Train Smarter, Not Harder?
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