Episode 484: Influencers v. Athletes | Tommy Lewis
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Tommy Lewis hosts the podcast, That's Runnable, and is a content creator with a passion to introduce people to running. He joined the show to discuss the role influencers and athletes play in growing the sport of running, where conflicts arise, and what he believes the path forward is for these two influential groups.
Tommy: thatsrunnable.com | IG: @tommyrunpt
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| 0:00.0 | And I don't think I really recognised the sort of power that it had for me until I was maybe in my early 20s, |
| 0:06.0 | where I'm really struggling with my own kind of headspace and got to a pretty dark place in my life. |
| 0:13.0 | And running was really like an anchor for me. It was the time of the day where I had peace. |
| 0:19.0 | It was at the first time that I realized that I, that this kind of exercise stuff |
| 0:23.8 | had more power to it than just feeling good and looking good. Yeah, for sure. When I was at |
| 0:28.0 | school, I thought running was really lame. I never really, it was not attractive to me whatsoever. |
| 0:33.5 | I didn't understand it. I didn't get the idea of why would you run if you're not chasing a ball? |
| 0:38.2 | I just didn't understand it. |
| 0:39.4 | And to be completely honest, I didn't think runners were very cool either. |
| 0:44.1 | Actually, in January, I had a bit of a moment. |
| 0:47.2 | This happens to me where I just lose interest and I think, do I even like running? |
| 0:51.0 | It was this all for nothing. |
| 0:55.1 | Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter. |
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