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The Strength Running Podcast

Q&A with Jason: Supercompensation, Scheduling Strength, Time vs. Miles, and more

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Wish you could ask a coach about injury risk, building back fitness after illness, common training errors, and more?

I collected popular running questions from our YouTube community and am answering these questions:

  • What exactly is supercompensation?
  • How can you build back your fitness after getting sick?
  • What are some pitfalls and traps around beginner runner progressions?
  • Should I count myself as a novice or more advanced runner?
  • Is there any benefit for longer duration of the same mileage between two runners?
  • When in a weekly schedule is a good day to do specific strength training?
  • What are examples of effective core work, strength training or mobility training post-run?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Ready, set, go!

0:04.4

This is episode 380, where I answer your training questions about injury risk, how to build back fitness after getting sick, common training errors, and six more topics. Welcome to the Strength Running podcast.

0:27.0

We surround you with the same experts as pro-runners.

0:30.0

So keep listening to hear coaches, physical therapists, strength experts, dietitians, sports psychologists,

0:36.9

and other thought leaders give you the best

0:39.0

guidance possible to take your running to the next level. I'm your host, Coach Jason Fitzgerald.

0:44.6

I ran cross-country, indoor and outdoor track for Connecticut College. I one time ran a 239

0:50.3

marathon PR, and now I'm the head coach of Strength Running and a monthly columnist for

0:55.4

Outside Magazine. You can learn more about me and Strength Running at Strengthrunning.com.

1:01.0

Now, we are knee-deep in the holiday season, and I hope that if you celebrate, you had a

1:06.1

wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends. I know it can be a tough time of the

1:10.5

year to fit in your

1:11.6

training. And one change that I am making to my personal approach is to set up a home gym. I've always

1:17.6

had, you know, kettlebells and dumbbells and bands and a medicine ball and things like that.

1:22.5

But that honestly leaves a lot to be desired. And I admittedly can't work on getting stronger

1:28.9

and working on power as effectively with such light implements. So I've just set up a new squat

1:35.7

rack in my garage. I have a proper barbell plates and a couple accessories. So I can now do a

1:43.1

full, complete waylifting program, just like high

1:46.7

performance lifting in the comfort of my own garage. And I just put up a review video of my setup

1:52.7

with a couple tips and tricks and things that I'm going to be implementing. So don't miss that.

1:58.8

It is on the Strength Running YouTube channel. Next, let's show

2:02.5

some love to our partners who support the show. You can take advantage of their unique

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