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Welcome to The Ride Life Podcast, a podcast dedicated to fitness and health for women mountain bikers. Let's focus in on the rider who wants to keep their body healthy, ride for fun, and feel strong on their bike!
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99. You Don't Have to Be Ready. You Just Have to Have a Direction (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago Dr. Liz Koch rolled her ankle on her own driveway — not on a trail, not doing anything heroic, just walking to her car — right in the middle of training for an 8.5-mile trail race. In this episode she tells the full story: the decade off trail running, the slow careful rebuild, the setback, and where she actually is right now — back on short trail runs where she has to really focus, back in the gym loading single leg stability, back on the bike because that's where her body feels
98. The One Thing That Separates Women Who Finally Get Consistent From Women Who Keep Starting Over (opens the original)
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Consistency doesn't come from motivation. It comes from the right kind of goal and a plan that exists before the week gets away from her. In this episode Dr. Liz Koch, DPT breaks down the two types of goals that produce completely different relationships with consistency — deficit goals that make her feel behind every day she hasn't achieved them, and gain goals that build her up every session she shows up. She also covers the planning piece most goal-setting content skips entirely — why decidin
97. What Your Body Actually Does in the First 3 Weeks of Consistent Training — The Science Will Surprise You (opens the original)
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Most women stop a training program after two or three weeks because they can't see results yet. What they don't know is that the most significant adaptation phase of the entire training cycle is happening right then — in the nervous system, not the mirror. Dr. Liz Koch, DPT walks through exactly what the body does in weeks one, two, and three of consistent training — the neurological changes that improve trail performance before they ever produce visible results. Better glute recruitment on clim
96. Why Your Shoulders Ache on the Bike and on the Water — And Why Your Core Has Everything to Do With It (opens the original)
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If your shoulders start aching somewhere in the beginning of the second half of a long ride or paddle day — this episode explains exactly why. Mountain biking and kayaking look like completely different sports but they create the same pattern: a forward-flexed, internally rotated position sustained under fatigue that loads the shoulder in a position it was never designed to hold for hours. The shoulder isn't the problem. It's where the problem shows up. Dr. Liz Koch, DPT breaks down the posture
95. You've Stretched Your Hip Flexors Every Day for a Year. Here's Why Nothing Has Changed. (opens the original)
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If you've been stretching your hip flexors consistently and the tightness keeps coming back — this episode is the answer you haven't been given. The sensation of tightness is real. But for most outdoor women the cause isn't what they think. There are two completely different patterns that create the same feeling in the front of the hip: true structural shortening and neurological protection — the nervous system guarding an area it perceives as unstable. Passive stretching can address the first.
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