Could Lifting Be What You Need to Run Faster?-Meghan Kennihan

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4.6 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we’ll be debunking a few fitness myths and learning some important tips with certified personal trainer and running coach, Meghan Kennihan. Meghan has loved sports for as long as she can remember, including: being on every sports team in her school and running several marathons and triathlons, but hitting several bumps along the way.

These are some of the topics we covered:

Meghan’s transition from running to power lifting
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0:00.0	Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best minds in the sport so you can train smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now.
0:12.0	And now your host, Tina Muir.
0:15.0	Hello, this is Tina Muir.
0:17.0	Thank you again for joining me today for the newest episode of the Runners Connect Run to the Top
0:22.1	podcast. So today I want to of the Renners Connect Run to the Top Podcast.
0:23.0	So today I wanted to talk about something a little different.
0:27.0	You know, often now we hear about how good strength training is for us.
0:31.0	Or maybe I just notice it a bit more now because I do it and you know the
0:35.8	things that you seem to pay attention to they seem to be everywhere but really it's just
0:40.1	that your eyes are open to it well maybe that maybe that's it, but it seems like there's more of it around.
0:45.4	Either way, you may have been thinking about giving strength training a try and I'm not talking about
0:50.8	Don Bells and you know doing clams and things I'm talking about you know
0:54.1	real in the gym weightlifting but this interview may push you over the edge to give it a
0:59.1	go and I really would encourage it I mean I've talked a lot about how it's helped me and I really think it could help you too.
1:05.2	My guest today is so full of energy and she'll shock you with all the accomplishment she's achieved.
1:10.8	It's amazing, but the thing I loved about her is how fearlessly she keeps
1:14.9	approaching her life, how she keeps challenging herself and I think that's really going to inspire you. So who is my
1:20.5	guest today? Her name is Megan Kenhan. She is an N-A-S-M-S-A-T-R-C-A cycling American sports education spinning Les Mills Body Pump, Boseu, certified coach.
1:36.0	Wow, that's a lot of different interests right there, but it's, I mean, impressive.
1:41.5	She owns six Illinois State powerlifting records, but is also a runner and has
1:46.0	PRs of 255, 121, 38 minutes in the 10K and 18 minutes in the 5K. She's also won every ultra race you've ever raced except one.
1:56.9	And she's won multiple half ironman's, has qualified for the 70.3 championships multiple times.
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