Ep 811 - Pull-Ups vs. Marathons: Which is More Impressive? plus building a f*k average mentality
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Emma Storey-Gordon
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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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00:00 Pull-Ups vs. Marathons: A Strength Perspective
05:14 Vibration Plates: Science vs. Marketing
08:51 Normalizing Unhealthy Eating Habits
13:31 Self-Regulation and Neurodiversity
21:00 Immunity Boosting Supplements: What Works?
22:57 The Impact of Illness on Fitness
24:24 Supplements for Energy and Perimenopause
25:52 Finding Motivation When You’re Not in the Mood
27:10 Fat Loss While Marathon Training
29:54 Regaining Muscle After Weight Loss
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| 0:00.8 | Hello and welcome to this episode of ESG Fitness Podcast. I'm doing a Q&A episode today with incredible questions from my clients. |
| 0:11.5 | But first I want to start with something that I've been... Oh, in pitch or? |
| 0:18.4 | Okay. Sorry. Confused. Okay, okay. Sorry, confused. |
| 0:22.0 | Okay, right. |
| 0:22.7 | Yeah, I want to start with something that I discussed on a walk with a couple of mates this |
| 0:29.1 | week, which is probably going to be most of the things I'm talking about in the foreseeable |
| 0:33.6 | future. |
| 0:35.0 | But anyway, it was, can more people do a pull-up or a marathon? And then this went on to, |
| 0:41.6 | like, based on that, what's more impressive, which I think is a slightly different thing, because I, so, |
| 0:47.3 | spoiler alert, more women can do a marathon than can do a pull-up. And you'd think, well, like, |
| 0:53.3 | you know, based on that, maybe it's more impressive to be able to do a pull-up. And you'd think, well, like, you know, based on that, maybe it's more |
| 0:54.5 | impressive to be able to do a pull-up. And maybe, but I don't know, there's something like very |
| 1:00.2 | mentally tough about being able to see a marathon or having done a marathon. Anyway, I thought |
| 1:07.3 | was interesting, but the kind of the discussion behind it is that running marathon is largely down to endurance and like kind of mental grit and not giving up and a bit of mindset behind it. |
| 1:18.7 | So I honestly think that with enough time, progression, consistency, a very, very high percentage of women could run a marathon, even if they're not naturally very |
| 1:29.2 | sporty or naturally very, like, physically gifted or view themselves in that way. |
| 1:34.8 | I would probably put my hat on, like, the average woman can train to run a marathon, 100%. |
| 1:40.7 | The limiting factors are usually things like time, injury management and like life logistics |
| 1:46.9 | to be able to train enough, not anything physically like stopping them. You know, like, I even think |
| 1:53.0 | that most, do I think this? I certainly think that if someone put like a gun to my head, I could run around |
| 1:58.3 | than today having done no training and I'm not |
| 2:01.4 | aerobically fit I think a lot of women could if they needed to I think the same is not true for a |
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