Hi, I'm Ryan Flaredy, Nike Senior Director of Performance.

For two years, I've been making this podcast, talking to experts in every aspect of training,

both mental and physical.

This season, with all of our lives turned upside down by the coronavirus, I'm calling up

some of those same experts, and ones you haven't heard from yet, to find out how they're

staying strong while staying home, and how we can do the same.

You're listening to Trained at Home.

In this acute period where we're all feeling the fight or flight response, we're feeling

worried, we're maybe not sleeping well, I think the way to frame this is that not only

is stress a normal response, the name of the game here is not minimizing it, it's optimizing

it.

That psychologist, Angela Duckworth, talking about how stress can sometimes help us adapt

to difficult situations.

I think that's something we all need to hear right now, when people in our lives or

in the media might be telling us we shouldn't stress about it.

Sometimes we need to listen when our minds tell us things aren't okay.

Acknowledging a difficult situation, paradoxically, can sometimes help us to stay strong and to

get through it.

Angela Duckworth has spent her entire career studying how people get through it.

She believes it takes a combination of passion and perseverance that she calls grit, which

is also the name of her New York Times bestseller.

I've interviewed her before back in season two because I think her research and writing

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