How to Learn to Like Running, With Strength Running's Jason Fitzgerald
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🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week we're kicking our butts into gear and learning how to actually enjoy the act of running with help from Strength Running founder, Jason Fitzgerald. Jason is a USA Track & Field certified coach and host of The Strength Running Podcast. Listen to hear Jason's advice on how to actually start a running habit as a beginner, the best strategies for injury prevention, and why perfection is not what we should be aiming for.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Jordan Calhoun, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker, and joining me |
| 0:21.9 | is LifeHacker's parenting editor, Megan Walbert. Hey, Megan. Hi, Jordan. Megan, today we happen to be |
| 0:27.8 | addressing something you're personally focusing on, right? We sure are. I have been trying to make |
| 0:32.5 | myself get into running for LifeHackers Fitness Challenge series this month,. Unfortunately, our guest today is the perfect expert for that. |
| 0:40.0 | It's Strength Running founder Jason Fitzgerald. |
| 0:42.8 | Of course, running is a little hard. |
| 0:44.8 | It can be a little bit boring when you first start. |
| 0:47.2 | But if you give yourself a month, try to be consistent with your running for a month. |
| 0:52.4 | You will start feeling good on your runs. |
| 0:54.9 | You're going to start getting better and improving. |
| 0:57.6 | And if you're like me, you're going to get hooked on the sport. |
| 1:00.9 | Jason is the founder of the website and blog Strength Running, |
| 1:03.8 | as well as the host of the Strength Running podcast. |
| 1:06.3 | Jason is also a USA Track and Field Certified Coach |
| 1:09.4 | and the author of 101 Simple Ways to Be a Better Runner and field certified coach and the author of 101 simple ways to be a better runner and running for health and happiness. |
| 1:15.6 | So, Megan, how is your running challenge going? |
| 1:18.2 | Oof, Jordan. |
| 1:21.1 | So, well, as you know, I have not run until two weeks ago for a very long time. |
| 1:28.0 | I mean, we're talking decades, like college age, Megan, attempting to run. |
| 1:32.4 | And that was not pretty either. |
| 1:33.9 | But I really wanted to take on this challenge because I've always really wanted to like running. |
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