Athlete Nutrition Profile - Senior Peloton Instructor and Masters World Champion Track Cyclist, Christine D’Ercole

Welcome to Episode 32 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring Senior Peloton Instructor and Masters World Champion track cyclist, Christine D’Ercole. 

Whether you are a Peloton rider and already familiar with Christine or you're not, I am so excited to share her story with you today. She calls herself a story-teller, and she truly is. She shared story after story during our 2+ hour interview, and I felt like we could’ve kept on going! 

We went VERY in-depth,  so even if you think you know everything about Christine, you will learn a lot more! Here's a preview of what we cover in this episode:

• The entire arc of her career as a performer, both in the arts and in sports - as a young ballerina, an actress, a competitive track cyclist, and cycling instructor 
• Christine’s struggle with bulimia as a teenager
• How her approach to food and her body image evolved as she started cycling
• Becoming a Mom in her late 20s and raising a body-positive daughter
• Getting back into competitive sport and fueling herself for success 
• Learning to stop fighting her body and instead to “embrace her build” 
• How her signature mantra, “I am I can I will I do,” was born and how we can use it in the nutrition and body image space
• Everything you want to know about competitive track cycling, including fueling  
• Becoming a Peloton instructor and what her everyday nutrition looks like now
• General advice on building confidence, nourishing your body and mind, and rejecting harmful messages from diet-culture and the media-machine

THANK YOU Christine for sharing your story, for making yourself vulnerable, for showing us that change IS possible, and for inspiring us all everyday on the bike.

Learn more about Christine D’Ercole:

•  Christine’s Website: https://christinedercole.com
•  Follow on Instagram and Facebook

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• Music Credit: Joseph McDade
• Disclaimer – all information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is in no way meant to replace individual medical and nutrition recommendations. If you'd like to work with me for individualized nutrition support, please reach out!