Hey everybody and welcome to today's episode the Run to the Top Extra Kick Daily Podcast. I am your host, one of the coaches here

at Runners Connect, Hey Lima. And I hope you guys are all staying safe and well.

I hope that you find ways to say sane and keep up

a routine during these difficult and challenging times. In this series of

episodes I'm giving you some advice. In this

in this series of episodes, I mean giving you some advice relating to training during these challenging times during this pandemic.

I hope I've answered some of your questions that you have, but if you have any other questions that I haven't covered yet about how the coronavirus is affecting your training and racing, training in immunity, things like this.

Please email them to Haley, H-A-Y, L-E-Y, at runners connect.

net, and I will do my best to help you out with those, my best to answer your queries.

This podcast is about maintaining the immune system whilst you're training. A lot of people worry that hard training is going to suppress your immune system,

so they're worried about keeping training throughout this time.

But please be reassured that the fact that it's

training low as the immune system low as your immunity has actually been

disproved more recently and exercise on the whole and doing something

like running that gives you a mental or physical boost is actually going to be positive

for the immune system.

A caveat there, that's as long as you're not over-training and under-fueling, these things are definitely not good for the immune system.

But there are things we can do to make sure that our immune system is maintained in the face of our training.

And it's things we can do with our diet.

It is things we can do with our diet. It is things we can do with our sleep and it is things we can do around the type of training we're doing and how we're recovering from it.

Now the immune response requires a lot of energy so the quality and

quantity of your diet is going to be super important. If you have a deficiency in a macronutrient, so that is carbohydrate, protein or fats,

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