#159: Erin Carson on Strength, Personal Power & Writing Your Own Story

Based in Boulder, Colorado Erin is the head coach for EC Fit. Her clients include the dynamic duo of Mirinda Carfrae (3 x Ironman World Champion) and  Tim O’Donnell (fastest American ever at Kona). Aside from the World Champions she coaches, Erin also coaches everyday people - like me! 

She’s a visionary who is changing what it means to be a strong athlete and the best strength training for endurance athletes. 

In this conversation we discuss:

* her career as a basketball player, including playing professionally in Europe, 

* how her love of strength training started from a need to become stronger for basketball,

* her transition into strength training endurance athletes,

* why addressing hormonal responses and creating more energy (rather than strength or speed) is at the heart of her philosophy, 

* why strength training for performance is about how well you can move, not how much you can lift,

* the importance of rest and recovery and the easiest way to incorporate it into your busy schedule (essentially, forget all the tech; just do things that you find relaxing or that calm you down - which is *not* spending time on social media),

* that she has the opposite of the Imposter Complex and why she’s thought that she’s “good enough” since the 5th grade,

* why you can come last and still be victorious, 

* how she came to meet Dr Stacy Sims and how they came to collaborate on a strength program for women,

* how her philosophy and approach to strength training has changed after learning from Dr Sims, and

* her experience through peri-menopause and menopause as an athlete in her 50s.