EP 567: 5 Secrets Pros Do That Can Help You Regardless of Your Ability

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Head Coach and Executive Director of the Hoka Northern Arizona Elite Team, aka Hoka NAZ Elite, Ben Rosario helps us understand how the pros train. You might be surprised that there are many things they do that you can too! Regardless of your ability level, age, or experience, we can learn some key principles that will help us run faster and/or further.

Sleep
Nutrition
Strength Training (you don't have to have a gym membership)
Stretching
Taking it easy on easy days
BONUS – Pacing

You can learn more in the book he co-authored with Matt Fitzgerald, In their new book, Run Like a Pro (Even If You're Slow): Elite Tools and Tips for Runners at Every Level, they help us understand that we can reach our potential if we include some of these training techniques and strategies.

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0:00.0	I think for trail runners as well, we feel like we're not accomplishing anything physiologically
0:07.5	if we don't push ourselves just a little bit.
0:10.3	We always just want to be hurting so bad and what the pros are really good at is being
0:14.3	comfortably uncomfortable.
0:16.3	I think amateurs want to be completely uncomfortable.
0:19.3	But you can do more work if you're comfortably uncomfortable.
0:23.7	You are improving when you're running easy.
0:34.3	Welcome to the trail ahead of trail runner nation where we go on virtual trail runs with interesting
0:39.0	guests and boy we have one today he's going to teach us some great tactics on how to reach
0:43.6	our potential and hopefully make you a better human being.
0:47.5	Today we're talking to coach Ben Rosario who teaches pro athletes how to run faster and
0:52.7	he's going to teach us something too.
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