187. Get to Know the Coach: An Interview with Strength Running Founder Jason Fitzgerald
The Strength Running Podcast
Jason Fitzgerald
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Jason Fitzgerald started Strength Running in 2010 with a small blog after he ran his first marathon in 2:44 and suffered through a severe IT Band injury.
11 years later, Strength Running is now a multimedia company with a YouTube channel, Instagram, award-winning blog, and Twitter. He also provides a number of training programs, including the popular Injury Prevention for Runners and High Performance Lifting.
In addition to all this, Jason is the head coach of Team Strength Running - an engaged community of runners who cheer each other on while getting the resources they need to propel their running forward. And of course, there is the Strength Running Podcast, which is where we're catching up with Jason today.
In this interview, Jason shares more details about:
- Why he stuck with running in his early years
- The positive impact that different coaches have had on him
- The ups and downs of Jason's own running career
- Running post college and how his focus shifted
- How Strength Running went from a passion project to a full time job
- Wisdom for those wanting to become entrepreneurs
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ready, set, go! |
| 0:05.0 | This is episode 187, and the tables have been turned. |
| 0:08.8 | My content specialist, Anya Mullin, is interviewing me about my personal training, the history |
| 0:14.7 | of strength running, and what's coming next. |
| 0:26.8 | Welcome to the Strength Running Podcast. |
| 0:28.9 | I'm your host, Coach Jason Fitzgerald, and the episode you're about to listen to is quite |
| 0:33.2 | different from other episodes. |
| 0:35.2 | My content specialist, Anya Mullin, who helps me with the podcast and other projects |
| 0:39.7 | here at Strength Running, had the idea to interview me about my past, my present, the origins |
| 0:45.5 | of strength running, and exciting new projects on the horizon. |
| 0:49.4 | We have a lot of new listeners as the show grows, and this episode is a nice introduction |
| 0:53.8 | to who I am, what I believe in, and how I can help you become a better runner. |
| 0:58.5 | But before we start, I want to make sure we're all traveling to the same meet today. |
| 1:02.2 | On this show, you can expect conversations between me and the thought leaders in the running |
| 1:06.9 | industry. |
| 1:07.9 | Coaches, performance psychologists, elite athletes, register dieticians, authors, and physical |
| 1:14.1 | therapists. |
| 1:15.5 | Our goal is to give you the knowledge, the mindsets, and tools to elevate your running performances. |
| 1:22.4 | Because when you better understand the process of improvement, when you recognize knowledge |
| 1:26.9 | as a competitive advantage, you'll be a wiser and more productive athlete. |
| 1:31.8 | By the way, if you haven't yet, go to YouTube and join our community there. |
| 1:35.9 | The Strength Running YouTube channel has more than 42,000 subscribers and hundreds of |
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