High Performance, Healthy Athlete: Finding th...

Thinking about taking the leap into triathlon but feeling unsure where to start? On this episode of Tri This Podcast, triathlete and physician Dr. Kirstin Lauritzen shares her top mindset tips and encouragement for anyone new to the sport. Kirstin breaks down practical strategies ...  Show more

In this episode of Tri This Podcast, triathlete and expert Dr. Kirstin Lauritzen dives deep into how inflammation can interfere with athletic performance and recovery. Whether you’re a beginner triathlete or a seasoned competitor, understanding the role of inflammation is key to ...  Show more

Getting Over the HumpsChallenges with training face every athlete. We are not always going to have the motivation to train. When the last thing we want to do is train that day or endure the weather, what are some easy tools we can use to make sure we get our training done? We kno ...  Show more

On this episode Dr. Heather North offers advice for endurance runners, how to survive your first marathon and the common injuries that come along with it. Heather talks us through the start of training, stretching, increasing mileage and avoiding injury, some new thoughts on shoe ...  Show more

Kirstin begins this week by sharing some exciting news that she has committed to race the La Quinta, Palm Springs, 70.3 Half Ironman on December 5th. And the main topic on this episode is supplements. Kirstin gets asked about them all the time in her practice and she helps athlet ...  Show more

This week it’s the ‘hot’ topic of inflammation which all athletes deal with eventually. Kirstin addresses the second part of the training block where inflammation builds up in the body, we get those adaptations to exercise, and then... it stops. We plateau. This is often where at ...  Show more