115: Mental Training Tips + Pushing Your Body

Female Athlete Nutrition

In this episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast, I talk with mindset coach and avid ultra runner Danielle Snyder. Danielle opens up about her introduction to running to cope with her mom’s sickness, and how it led her down a negative path of an eating disorder and unhealthy relationship with movement. We discuss how recovery is a long-term process that requires doing the mental work to challenge disordered mindsets.

Danielle is a phenomenal trail and ultra runner and she shares one of her biggest accomplishments, setting the Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the Oregon Pacific Coast Trail (PCT) over 9 days! Motivated to test her limits, we talk about how to push your body in healthy ways and celebrate your own achievements. Danielle gives listeners her top tips for fueling workouts and ultra running events. We hear how Danielle helps athletes train their minds at Inner Drive Wellness, focusing on improving self-talk and resiliency.

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In this episode we talk about:

3:00 Danielle’s athletic journey and eating disorder struggles

8:30 Finding a healthy relationship with running and food; from road to trail running

10:00 Stepping away from sport for health and recovery

11:45 Eating disorder recovery as a long-term process

15:30 Longevity in sports and coping with challenges

22:00 The ebb and flow of mental health and athletics

24:15 Danielle as a trail and ultra marathon runner

25:30 Achieving a Fastest Known Time (FKT) running the Pacific Coast Trail

32:00 Pushing your body in a healthy way

33:30 Being proud of yourself

36:30 Learning to fuel and respect hunger cues

45:30 Nutrition is part of the training: tips for fueling workouts

48:15 Danielle’s program Inner Drive Wellness supporting athletes’ mental health

55:00 End of the podcast questions