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One weird trick to hit new running PBs and prevent injuries. Just kidding, it’s strength training

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Strength training for runners (how to hit new PBs and avoid inury). One weird trick to hit new running PBs and prevent injuries. Just kidding it's strength training

If you google ‘strength training for runners’ you’ll come up with a billion results. The problem isn’t that we don’t know that it’s beneficial, the problem is actually getting it done. I’ve written about developing mental toughness, how to motivate yourself to do hard things and why you need joy, not motivation – but in this episode of the podcast, Jo and I are talking specifically about strength training.

It’s easy to downplay the challenges with strength training and put it in the ‘just do it’ basket. But there can be loads of obstacles – gyms can be intimidating, especially if you aren’t used to the environment. You can get caught up in too many options and get overwhelmed. (For some strength apps to get you started you can check out these which are a great option for strength training for runners.) Or you can just de-prioritise it because it’s not something you enjoy and yep you guessed it when something is last on your list and last in your heart, it is the first thing that gets skipped.

In this episode we talk about:

  • What is strength training anyway? Is it strength training or is it cardio with weights?
  • When you can’t get going on your own – how to use group training or individual programming to help you get started or keep going
  • The big question from the community in run club – ‘what motivates you to strength train when running just fills your cup so much more?’
  • Inspirations from How I Built This – don’t fall in love with the solution, fall in love with the problem.
  • If you want motivation, you are going to need an identified problem that you are trying to solve
  • Understanding your environmental needs initially
  • Strategies around habit bundling
  • Periodising your strength training and cross training depending on your running goals
  • Second question from the community in run club – can you do too much strength training?
  • How to assess how you are recovering
  • Choosing a programming style that works for you
  • Should you change your nutrition change based on whether you are doing more strength training than running?
  • How the things you are resistant to are probably clues about things you need to work on
  • Strength training for confidence building – being able to handle a heavy weight, allows you to handle other heavy weights in your life
  • Understanding what your physical and environmental barriers are to training

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Going from running 0 to 50km while working full-time

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Going from running 0 to 50km on a full-time schedule

Struggling with running while working full-time? Then this one is for you. Whether you are working full time or managing a full time schedule of work and kids and business, putting the effort in to a running plan, especially something ambitious can be tough.

Full-time work or business or parenting is usually full-time enough, without adding too much more onto your plate. But one thing we all know is that when you breathe into running, you can breathe more oxygen into everything else as well. It can seem like it will take up too much space, but somehow it just makes more. But that doesn’t mean that it’s not without its challenges especially with work deadlines or kids getting sick or just the general chaos of life.

So, running while working full-time might not be easy but it is rewarding and can tend to make your more productive and less stressed – but you do need to be a whole lot more flexible and be able to roll with the punches a bit.

In this episode of the podcast, I’m chatting with Ness. She’s not been doing a whole heap of running since having a second baby and starting her business, but now she’s getting back into a training cycle.

We recorded this in November, 2022 and we talk a bit about how she’s structuring her training, how she’s coping with the demands of parenting and business and life as well as running schedules. And importantly how she approaches things when things don’t go according to plan.

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Just keep moving forward – when running and long covid collide

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In this episode with Jen, we are talking about the aftermath of a 3 year pandemic, burn out and some of the realities of covid symptoms that persist past the acute period. It all has an impact, but in this we are focusing on how it has impacted running plans, running training and managing that change both physically and mentally.

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That which we do not speak of or the big scary running injury with no timeline

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In this episode with Jo, I’m talking about that big thing which deep down we probably all fear as runners: a big scary injury with no running, no clear path forward and no timeline of how long it will last for. We look at what that takes to get through to the other side, and how we answer the question of how much do you love running? Because you are going to have to love it a whole lot to get through endless rehab, endless setbacks and the mental challenges associated with that.

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Beginning again? Don’t be afraid of re-imagining what it could look like

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Do you ever feel like your life has changed, but your goals are stuck and you are just failing them?

This is a bit of a meandering catch up episode, but this is the core of what I’m talking about. In the last two years, a lot of us have had the benefit of at one time or another, taking a step back and taking stock of what really matters. You’ve seen it in the great resignation. And I think running or fitness or training is much the same – it’s time to take a step back and ask are my goals actually in line with what I want my lifestyle to be? Do I still want to run or do this thing, or am I just keeping going because I’m locked into a sense of identity? It’s worth taking a scary leap, even if it is different from what you imagined.

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