Endurance

Episode 3 - with Dr Emma Ross

Dr Emma Ross is the founder and director of Thrive Revolution and was the head of Physiology at the English Institute of Sport. Thrive exists to support girls and women discover the best in themselves and fulfil their potential. Read on everyone, because this is fascinating podcast that everyone should listen to, including boys and men. Emma is on a mission - to empower women with the knowledge and wisdom they need to achieve health, happiness and high performance, whether in work, sport, family or life. She spent a decade working in high performance sport, developing a world-leading campaign to optimise female athlete health and performance. Now Emma lectures, coaches and educates about improving body literacy in all women. The roots of this work is understanding how our biology and anatomy works, and how that influences body, behaviour and emotion has the potential to help women everywhere, in all walks of life, to capitalise on their untapped potential, reduce anguish and anxiety, and experience their life in a new way. Find out more at thriverevolution.com, @ezross on twitter and @ emma_zoe_ross on Instagram.

Welcome to the first series of the Endurance podcast with myself Mark Beaumont. I’m joined on many of the episodes by my friend and performance manager Laura Penhaul. We started recording these conversations as a research project for my new book, also called ‘Endurance’ &amp; published by Global Cycling Network – so you can find many of these conversations written up in the ‘Wise Words’ sections of the book. The Endurance podcast is focussed on meeting the sports scientists, the support staff, the researchers, the entrepreneurs – the people you will rarely have heard of - but who are the experts at supporting endurance athletes and are at the forefront of endurance sports. I started my endurance journey 25 years ago as a 12-year-old boy cycling across Scotland, and I recently pedalled around the planet at the pace of 240 mile a day. Laura has been a physiotherapist at 4 Paralympic &amp; Olympic Games, led the first female crew to row the Pacific Ocean and lead my Performance team for the ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ race. Young or old, female or male – I believe that endurance is the greater leveller in sport. I’m fascinated by the mental, physical and logistics skills that it takes to push endurance. We are all endurance athletes at heart – we can all go further.