Today's podcast guest is literally one of my favorite humans in endurance sports, Aaron Carson.

If you don't know Aaron, you definitely should. We've been working together with Aaron for about

three, four years now. She is best known as EC Fit Online. She is the owner at Rally Sport in Boulder,

and she is a strength trainer to the start.

She kind of made a name for herself early on by training Tim O'Donnell and Marinda Carfrey

in strength training.

Now she deals with dozens and dozens of elite endurance athletes in Boulder.

And over the last couple of years, we've kind of followed a very similar path that

in the same year, we were pursuing getting to age group world championships and then competing

there and performance above all else was what we were looking for. And the last couple of years,

we've both kind of come back to a little more balance while at the same time realizing that that balance

actually is supplementary helpful to your performance that when you want to perform really well

your body is healthy and ready and balanced and strong to be able to ramp up to these big

endurance adventures that we want to go on.

And I really didn't know that that's where Aaron was, but basically as soon as we got on

the call here, after not chatting one-on-one for a couple of years, the talk was so good that I

said, can we just start recording now? Because this is amazing. And I'm really, really thankful

that she came on.

Now, if you haven't ever done anything with Aaron, there are a couple ways that you can.

And she's one of the few people that I would recommend, like right off the bat, go and sign up for

whatever she's putting out. But you can try her Monday morning workouts that she streams live.

And then she has a couple of app offerings where you can get her strength training. A lot of our

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