#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.

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#159: Erin Carson on Strength, Personal Power & Writing Your Own Story is an episode from Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women by Jen Brown.

This episode is 01:05:24 long.

This episode was published on Sep 19, 2025.

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