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Welcome to my show! I’m Shangrila Rendon, 2x Guinness World Record Holder, best-selling author, professional endurance athlete, triathlon coach & motivational speaker (https://www.shangrilarendon.com/). I was abused as a kid and sexually assaulted as an adult. At 24 years old, I was diagnosed with extreme depression, PTSD, and struggled with eating disorder and alcohol addiction. In sports, I didn’t know how to swim, was afraid of open water, didn’t own a bike and started running only 15 minutes on a treadmill. I was a non-runner, non-cyclist, and non-swimmer at 24 yet I became an inspirational athlete regardless. I trained very hard and aimed for excellence. I coach athletes to achieve their dreams. My goal is to share with you my journey in triathlon and endurance racing that is full of tough lessons learned, mindset, race, training and nutrition strategies, and secrets to success. The goal of this show is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you execute your dreams. You will level up your skills, attain joy with your triathlon & endurance goals and live up to your full potential. Every Tuesday, I drop a weekly dose of inspiration on alternating topics: - Interviews with inspirational athletes, who will inspire and motivate you in achieving your goals and dreams. We will talk about their journey, achievements and experiences as well as key strategies, habits and lessons they learned you too can incorporate in your training, racing and life in general. - Interview with health, nutrition, mindset and triathlon endurance experts where they will share findings and key information from their expertise and experience. Various topics from ambitions, time management, sleep, family, drugs, ego, failure and so much more. No topic is off-limits. Subscribe to this channel if you want to keep up to date with our content!
Episodes
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
In this podcast, Coach Shangrila Rendon asks Katy how she was able to beat her Ironman personal record (PR) and place 11th in her age group (AG) Post ACL & Meniscus Surgery. How was she preparing and training for it despite challenging physical limitations.
Inside this interview:
- Going from feeling fearful of running because of exercise induced asthma since childhood and not being able to breath to finishing a hilly full marathon
- Scared of screwing up my knee after surgery
- Learning to pay attention to the small things. Early symptoms. Proactively knowing what's gonna happen.
- Figuring out how hard I can push myself before it becomes unsafe.
- Going from 2:10 to 1:50 seconds per 100 yards in swimming
- Having a support system. Having someone that believes in you more than you believe in yourself.
- Not always taking what the first doctor says as the end story.
- Dealing with physical limitations
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
In this interview, Coach Shangrila Rendon listens how Fanny Hollingshead overcame her Shin Pain and is now winning Back-to-Back Triathlon and MTB Races
During the LIVE show, we will talk about:
- How Fanny was able to go from a 11 min/mile run pace while feeling nagging shin pain to placing in her age group without experiencing pain
- When should pain be addressed?
- What is Body Maintenance and why it matters?
- How Fanny used targeted strength training to address the root of what was causing the pain
- What effect did correcting the technique have?
- How did it feel to place 1st in age group in the Oregon Triple Crown race with 7073 Ft Elevation Gain
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
In this episode, Coach Shangrila Rendon asks how Gloria Isela Vazquez from Texas, who started from ZERO triathlon experience, finished her 1st ocean swim & 1st sprint triathlon races without a wetsuit on the same weekend and with only 1 month training without injuring herself.
During the show, we will talk about:
- How to gain confidence for swimming in the ocean?
- How did Gloria find the courage to commit to something that seemed so out of reach just 1 month ago?
- What did Gloria do to go from nervous and scared to confident?
- How did it feel to achieve a 3-month goal in 1 month andwhat was required to do it?
ZERO experience to a gutsy, go-getter very confident triathlete WITHIN A MONTH!!!
- 1000 meter ocean swim Toyota Legacy finisher without wetsuit
- FIRST sprint triathlon finisher without a wetsuit and also in the ocean. 600 yards 🏊🏻♀️, 12 miles 🚴♀️, 5k 🏃🏻♀️
- Injury free and with unstoppable mindset
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
In this podcast episode, Coach Shangrila asks a busy single mom with a full time job how she placed 1st in her age group on her 1st half Ironman while also starting her own business at the same time.
During the interview, we talked about:
- What helped her mindset and staying grounded considering all the commitments that she has on her plate
- How was she able to ramp up from swimming only 1k yards as her longest distance to swimming up to 3 miles with very limited access to pool?
- How was she able to overcome her dislike of cold temperature and fear of creatures/plants in open water?
- How did she train and win her age group on top of everything that she was doing?
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
In this episode, Coach Shangrila Rendon interviews expert Orthopedic Manual Therapist Janise Alcantara, PT, CMPT, Dsc(c) about the topic of lower back pain.
Here are some of the questions covered:
- I'm having sciatic pain on my low back after hours of running. What can I do now while I look for doctor?
- Constant pain on my back and taking Advil isn't helping. Any other suggestion?
- How about SI Joint injections? Do you recommend steroids?
- I strained my low back last week. Besides resting on weekend, muscle relaxer, pain meds, TENS unit and chiro visit, any other suggestions I need to do?
- When do I know when to get professional help or get an MRI?
- Is my low back pain connected to weak gluteus?
- Why do I feel low back pain on right side and not on other side?
- When do I apply warm compress? How long? What does it do?
- What's a Redcord Neurac? Will seeking for PT who's experienced on this help?
On this interview we talked about:
- The most common misconceptions about having a strong back and core
- Should you move if you have lower back pain?
- How does your hip or gluteus contribute to back pain
- Is an MRI always necessary?
- How do you know what you need to target when you have back pain
- Is it ok if I crack my back myself?
- What to do when you feel shooting pain when running?
- Pain after swimming? What might be causing it?
- Sciatica after sitting. What might be the issue.
- Supplementation
- Does the amount of sleep matter?
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
In this podcast episode, Coach Shangrila Rendon interviews Dr. Brendan Meany, EdD, who specializes in sport & performance psychology about how to manage Performance Anxiety in Triathlon and Endurance Sports.
During the show, we talked about:
- How to approach self-talk to manage anxiety
- Mental Toughness, Resilience Training, and Intrinsic Motivation
- What are the different relaxation methods to help you manage anxiety.
- How do you integrate these methods to become a habit?
- How does one go through "tapering" weeks. It seems to affect me.
- Emotional/Stress eating, meds, ...
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
In this episode, Coach Shangrila Rendon is asks Amy Purvis about how she PRd both St. George 70.3 & rainy IRONMAN Tulsa, despite that these races were only 2 weeks apart 🧐.
Other athletes' reasons for not doing well on races or losing their fitness were because:
- Races were cancelled last year
- COVID 19 was very stressful and it affected their motivation
- Weight gain
But how come it didn’t seem that Amy got affected by this? Listen in to find out how she did it!
During the LIVE interview we will cover:
- Challenges that she had to go through as a single-mom, being overweight and novice triathlete, specifically during the first years of her triathlon
- Tools that she used to transform herself into Super Amy who beats her Personal Record and continuously is unstoppable
- How she was able to recover from St. George 70.3 and raced Ironman Tulsa within 2 weeks
- What thought processes go through her mind when setting and tackling goals
- How has she gained confidence in herself and is not afraid to dream big
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Monday Jul 05, 2021
In this podcast episode, Coach Shangrila Rendon interviews a well-accomplished athlete & solo racer of Transamtri, Michele Santilhano, about committing to huge goals.
Inside this interview:
- Committing to this huge goal.
- Making a difficult decision. the process and considering all the parts
- Challenges and how to overcome them?
- Noticing what the body is saying
- Tapping into the limitless potential any of us has
- Planning for racing Transamtri
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
In this podcast, Coach Shangrila Rendon interviews Ivan Blazquez, plant-based personal trainer, nutrition expert, former pro-physique athlete, triathlete and researcher about how to use the nutritarian-vegan diet as a strong athlete.
These are some of the items that we discussed:
- What should I eat before race day if I’m trying to eat healthy on a plant based vegan diet?
- Why should someone consider a vegan diet?
- Should I be afraid of bulking up if I lift weights as a triathlete?
- How much should I eat during a race?
- Superfoods you didn’t know about that improve your vo2 max
- Doing both triathlon and strength training at the same time
- What’s the best food for fast recovery after a race?
- Foods that improve your sleep and make it easier to fall asleep
- Best foods I should eat to be healthy
- What about vitamin B-12
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
In this podcast, Coach Shangrila Rendon interviews 5 inspirational triathletes who were held back by their swimming ability in the past. How all of them were able to overcome their challenges and train to be good swimmers.
In this episode, we will cover:
- How was Javey able to overcome his trauma of drowning and train himself to swim at a 1:50 min/100 yards pace.
- Tools Cruz, Rodrigo, Javey, Fanny and Naga used to transform themselves into fast swimmers
- How are they able to use the 80/20 principle and see results even through they are very busy and don’t have a lot of time to train
- What did they do to gain confidence in themselves and not be fearful / anxious
- What method did they use to learn how to breath bilaterally