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How I Went From Having Aerobic Deficiency Syndrome to #2 on the World SUP Tour... and Then Relapsed
Aerobic Deficiency Syndrome, (ADS), is where you never fully train your aerobic system to be efficient. Then, when you train or race, you...
Sep 1, 2020
Rest, Resistance, and the Myth of Balance
For the past two years, I’ve been resting. Not the kind of rest that means doing nothing, but the kind of rest that feels like composting. Turning over the soil. Letting all the busy, productive, striving energy of the last decade sink down and break apart, so something new could grow. It wasn’t graceful. I fought it the whole way. I kept trying to make the pause feel purposeful: gardening, building, business-ing. But even the deer and squirrels reminded me that not everythin
Nov 19


A look back on 2023 & 2024 before launching into 2025
The old saying goes, "Time flies like the wind. House flies like the wall." I was on a walk one morning with Kaya (a very slow walk due...
Jan 14


Rise & Glide Podcast!
I'm slowly coming back from my year long sabbatical... a year off social media and a year to focus on the little things. One of the first...
Apr 22, 2024


3 Journal Prompts to Unlock Athletic Performance
Last year at the Gorge Downwind Challenge, I had a really bad start. I was all in my head and I had gone down a negative spiral of...
Jul 7, 2022
April on "The Athletes Podcast"
🏆Episode #128 of The Athletes Podcast features April Zilg. April is a professional Stand-Up Paddleboard athlete and founder of The...
Jun 21, 2022
April on the "ALL IN" Podcast
Listen to the full episode here: https://www.instagram.com/theallinproject/
Jun 21, 2022


A Leg Up (How I started my career as a professional paddler)
When I started my paddling career, it was hard to make the transition from full time contributor of society, to part time “surf bum” as...
Jun 9, 2022


Beyond Fitness: How to use your Garmin to bio-hack full-focus and finish that nagging project
Over the course of my journey from couch potato to contender on the World SUP tour, I ramped up my training with the help of my Garmin....
May 25, 2022
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