Born To Run Free (For a Lifetime) with Christopher McDougall + Eric Orton

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Reaching your athletic peak is a laudable goal. But ambition extracts a physical and mental cost. How do you break free from cycles of burnout and injury and fall in love with running again? Today we cover this topic and more with legends Christopher McDougall + Eric Orton. In this conversation we dive deep into the world and stories of Christopher's book Born to Run, as well as talk with Christopher's running coach, Eric Orton, about the practical – naturalistic – running drills, principles, practices and philosophy to become bulletproof to injury – and set you up for a lifelong love affair with running. Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: Birch Living: birchiving.com/richroll ROKA: roka.com Salomon: salomon.com/richroll InsideTracker: insidetracker.com/RichRoll Athletic Greens: athleticgreens.com/richroll Voicing Change II: bit.ly/voicingchangeII Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:42.7	Okay, let's do the show.
0:48.2	I think too many of us start to stray into the world of exercise as punishments, as a test
0:55.5	of our inner worth, exercise as a sense of joyfulness, of creativity, of artistry.
1:01.6	And artistry can take any kind of form, but if you believe that your ability is to create
1:06.1	not just a destroy, not to beat somebody else, beat yourself up, beat down your body,
1:10.1	but to really create and relish, then you start to get on the caballo path.
1:15.3	And you know, I tell a lot of beginning runners, don't view starting running as a workout,
1:22.1	or as a form of fitness, or a way to lose weight.
1:25.8	Create the joy first, and everything else will follow, and that goes into learning to
1:30.3	be efficient, not thinking it has to be hard.
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1:47.1	Back in 2011, just before the start of this podcast, a hugely influential book was released
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