AMR Trains #5: Strength Training + Running: Solving the Equation

Another Mother Runner

Feisty Media

Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Dimity chats with Dr. Ellie Sommers, a USATF Level 1 Certified Run coach, a USA Weightlifting Level 1 Certified Weightlifting Coach, and owner of SISU Sports Performance and Physical Therapy in Seattle about:

· If runners truly need to strength train for performance (it’s not the answer you expect!);

· Why it’s especially important for women to lift weights;

· How varied strength training fits with the race training cycle;

· What her favorite moves for female runners are;

· And why you should challenge yourself in the gym. “Pick something heavier than you usually do,” she says, “You might surprise yourself.

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0:21.9	AMR go win, AMR Gains, hosted by me, Dimmity McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner.
0:44.0	We tackle a host of training related topics on this podcast, and today we're focusing on an area
0:49.3	that many of us endurance athletes don't like but need to address.
0:53.6	And that is strength training.
0:56.0	To help us unpack the Howson Wies of Strength Training,
0:59.0	we're headed out to Seattle, where we hear it's a little gloomy, to hang with Dr. Ellie Summers, owner of C-Sisu Sports
1:06.0	Performance and Physical Therapy. In addition to being a Physical Therapist,
1:10.2	Ellie is a US ATF level one certified run coach and a USA weightlifting level one
1:16.2	certified weightlifting coach. But I like her DIY bio the most which is this. I am an
1:21.9	athlete a physical therapist, a performance coach, and a fierce
1:25.9	advocate for better care, particularly for women. So welcome, Ellie, we are so glad to have you here.
1:32.4	Yeah, thank you. I are so glad to have you here.
1:32.9	Yeah, thank you.
1:33.6	I'm really excited to chat with you.
1:36.1	Awesome.
1:37.0	So first, give us a little background on yourself.
1:39.4	You were a soccer play growing up, is that right?
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