Return to Running + Strength Training Post-Injury
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This episode is required listening for all runners and fitness enthusiasts coming back from an injury: A running coach and a personal trainer share loads of advice and insight into making a safe return to running and weight training. The experts detail:
-the definition of “gradual” when making a comeback;
-how hopping on a plan can eliminate overthinking + banish anxiety;
-how to revamp “rest days” into “reset days”;
-the importance of balance, stability, and core work for long-term success; and,
-ways to prevent an injury from returning.
A belated honeymoon and homemade cupcakes are discussed in the intro, before Coach Jen Harrison hops on at 13:35. Here’s the book Coach Jen recommends.
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| 1:04.1 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea. I'm joined today in studio |
| 1:08.3 | by Brittany Williams. Flow Brittany. Hello, hello. How are you? Good, good. It's lovely to have you |
| 1:13.2 | here. It's lovely to be here. Thank you. Thank you. So I missed you when you were in Italy on your |
| 1:19.4 | to date. I know. It's so funny because so many people have been like, congratulations, |
| 1:24.8 | and I was like, it was delayed. It was delayed. But yeah, I just got, well, not just got back, |
| 1:30.2 | a few weeks ago, got back from Italy, spent 10 days there with my husband Anna. We got married |
| 1:36.4 | July of last year. So delayed honeymoon. But it was perfect. I wouldn't rewrite it for the world. |
| 1:44.1 | Oh, goodness. I thought of you when NPR did a story about how overcrowded Italy is. It is. |
| 1:49.9 | It is. It is. But here's the bench tourism. That's what they called it. Because like it's been |
| 1:54.7 | closed down. Yeah, like a FUDA COVID. Oh, yeah. I can see that vibe. It was my first time to |
| 2:01.2 | Italy. So I have nothing to compare that to. But it was crowded. But I didn't feel like, |
| 2:06.4 | so we went, we were in Pasatano, which is on the Amalfi coast for seven days, and we went to Rome |
| 2:12.3 | for three days. But one of those days that we were in Pasatano, we went to Capri, which is just a quick |
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