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Mental toughness requires more softness than you think it does

OperationMove · August 25, 2020 · Leave a Comment

When I ask people what they most need, it’s usually all about mental toughness, resilience, mindset.

We live in a world full of people who believe the only way to toughness and grittiness and resilience is baptism by fire.

But the part that gets skipped over is where you have to trust yourself to survive the fire, you have to believe that you can and you have to love yourself enough that you are undaunted by failure.

You can’t hate your way into belief, you can’t self-loathe your way into trust and you can’t shame your way into fearlessness.

It’s in the skipping over, that you can lose your way.

When you are continually under-valuing your effort and over-emphasising where you struggled, it’s easy to get stuck in a shame spiral.

Sometimes, you know I get out the door and I think to myself ‘that was a fucking miracle’. And it could be for any reason – I didn’t sleep well, or I’m feeling sad that day or one of my kids said something kind of innocuous but also deeply hurtful in the way that kids do but don’t realise they do. Maybe my bones feel tired, or I feel unappreciated or I feel like a crappy parent or a worse human or maybe I just wanted to snuggle up with the cats and hide from the world.

Any day, there are a million reasons to not go and maybe five that you want to.

So yeah, it can be a miracle.

And once that miracle has happened, well once you are out the door that is like a bonus round for anything that happens it’s icing.

I have a thing that I do mostly with intervals or a run where I’m not purely running easy. In my mind anything over 50% is a win. So when I’m half way – I figure that’s a good day, if I get to two thirds that’s a great day, three quarters that is outstanding and 100% well that is incredible. Because I know that showing up is the hard part.

You have to believe in your capacity for mental toughness before you can practice it and that takes a whole lot of kindness first.

Sometimes it takes a lot of time to find that kindness for yourself, and that’s okay. It’s okay for it to feel hard. It’s okay for it to take time to realise you don’t have to ‘deserve’ kindness – that it can just be taken in like oxygen into your lungs.

You do hard things all the time. You demonstrate mental toughness all the time. The challenge isn’t in doing it, the challenge is in being able to see yourself and recognise all the moments of greatness that you sweep under the rug, unnoticed because you don’t believe that is who you are.

Podcast: Episode 133 – Lockdown 2.0 with Dr Jen Martin

OperationMove · August 21, 2020 · Leave a Comment

This week’s episode is a wide ranging affair.

I talk to Dr Jen Martin this week. You can find her on instagram, twitter, or on her website. You can also catch her on the radio. Although Jen is pretty busy with all of the fast moving changes to university education over the last few months, I’m grateful that she took the time to have a chat with me this week.

I met Jen through Learn to Run and have coached her since then. You can read a bit more about her story here, but I will also be back in a future episode with more of our chat about how she got into running.

When the new restrictions came into place, I wanted to talk to her as someone who is having to deal with the restrictions as someone who is used to running significantly more than an hour a day, and also as someone who has a great perspective on the wide ranging effects of the pandemic, even for those of us who are really lucky to be where we are.

If you have any follow up questions for Jen, let me know because we’ll be catching up again!

Sign up for the introductory 8 week program here, it’s free!

You can sign up here, just make sure that you tick the walking challenge box.

Support the podcast, so we can make more and get access to bonus episodes!

You can support Operation Move and the podcast on Patreon. I am so grateful for your support! In this week’s bonus episode, I’m talking about tempo running – why it doesn’t have to be scary, how it should feel and some ideas for a warm up to make everything a whole lot easier.

Would you like your question answered?

As promised on the podcast, you can book in a skype call here Or you can email me here.

Learn to Run is now accepting registrations!

The final program for the year starts on the 7th September and includes:

  • 12 weeks of programming and support
  • Four programs suitable from absolute beginner through to someone who is already running, but wants to imporve
  • Option of our established program or upgrading to individualised sessions and one-on-one support
  • All the accountability and support you need to make it fun and sustainable.

You can sign up here.

Check out Run Club and the Operation Move Sisterhood

Our amazing community includes:

  • Plans from 5km to Marathon from Beginner to Advanced
  • Weekly workouts for when you are in between plans, or just to spice up your week
  • A private facebook community
  • Access to coaches for all your questions
  • And most importantly – the most supportive community you can imagine!

You can sign up here.

Stay up to date on:

  • instagram @opmove
  • facebook @opmove
  • facebook community group @opmove

Podcast: Episode 132 – Running in 1 Hour

OperationMove · August 14, 2020 · Leave a Comment

This week, Kirsten and I talk about how to change your training to fit it into 1 hour a day outside

This is for Melbourne people, but also for people who are time poor or wanting to just get the most out of their training with a limited amount of time to do it in. Some things we talk about include:
  • How we would adjust our own training
  • How you can get the same stimulus as a long run in less than an hour
  • Some ideas for changing your focus for this next period of time

Sign up for the introductory 8 week program here, it’s free!

You can sign up here, just make sure that you tick the walking challenge box.

Support the podcast, so we can make more and get access to bonus episodes!

You can support Operation Move and the podcast on Patreon. I am so grateful for your support! In this week’s bonus episode, I’m talking about tempo running – why it doesn’t have to be scary, how it should feel and some ideas for a warm up to make everything a whole lot easier.

Would you like your question answered?

As promised on the podcast, you can book in a skype call here Or you can email me here.

Learn to Run starts on the 7th of September

This program includes:
  • Four different programs depending on whether you are an absolute beginner or already running 5km
  • A 12 week, supported program with access to a coach.
  • Options for individualised programming and one-on-one coaching
You can sign up here. 

Check out Run Club and the Operation Move Sisterhood

Our amazing community includes:
  • Plans from 5km to Marathon from Beginner to Advanced
  • Weekly workouts for when you are in between plans, or just to spice up your week
  • A private facebook community
  • Access to coaches for all your questions
  • And most importantly – the most supportive community you can imagine!
You can sign up here.

Stay up to date on:

  • instagram @opmove
  • facebook @opmove
  • facebook community group @opmove
 
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