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🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Katie Zaferes is a decorated Olympic medalist, and one of the USA's top female professional triathletes. She recently had a baby, and on this week's podcast, she talks about how she handled training during pregnancy, and what it's like to start from scratch to regain her fitness, as she works towards the next Olympic cycle.
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0:00.0 | What's it, Motivators, Taryn here. Today's podcast guest is Katie Zephyrus, pro triathlete, Olympian, and fellow Roka athlete. And today's podcast host is NTK. |
0:11.4 | No triathlon, Kim. chatting with the new mom, Katie Zepiris. And that is what we're talking about today. |
0:18.3 | Pregnancy and having babies when you're an athlete. What is it like going through |
0:23.1 | that? And how the heck do you get back to exercising after your body has completely changed? |
0:27.9 | Yeah, we did a YouTube video with Katie just over the last couple of weeks where she talked about |
0:33.8 | how she felt this pressure of training while she was pregnant, but then very |
0:38.3 | quickly realized that she was actually just going to take a step back from feeling that |
0:43.2 | pressure of having to train like a professional athlete. And I think that's a really unique |
0:47.4 | perspective from somebody who has been at the very pinnacle of our sport to say, you know what, |
0:52.4 | now's the time that I'm going to focus on being |
0:54.5 | a mom and a soon-to-be mom. And I think that was a really interesting perspective. So we wanted to |
1:00.0 | get her on and dive a little bit deeper into all of that. Now, as I said, she is a fellow |
1:05.9 | Roka athlete. If you want to get any sunglasses, any wetsuits, any training gear. |
1:11.4 | Roka is my OG sponsor. |
1:14.2 | Like the very first partner I ever had that took a chance on me was Roka. |
1:20.1 | And I've stuck with them for the last eight years because they make some of the best gear |
1:26.3 | out there. |
1:26.8 | Their sunglasses are absolutely phenomenal. |
1:29.4 | They're wet suits. As everyone knows, they're like the wet suit in the world. Um, sunglasses for |
1:34.9 | such a number of reasons, they are by far the best sunglasses out there. If you want to get a |
1:39.6 | discount on any Roka gear, go to Roka.com forward slash Taryn and Katie uses it. I use it. Roka all day |
1:48.8 | every day. We're into it. Here's Katie's Affairs. Katie, welcome. Thank you so much for joining us. |
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