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Running For Happiness and Health with Jason Fitzgerald

Trail Runner Nation

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

USA Track & Field certified coach, elite athlete, and author of "Running For Happiness and Health: A Beginners Guide to Faster Pain-Free Running",  Jason Fitzgerald joins The Nation to discuss some of the basics of running.  Whether you are a beginner or seasoned veteran, Jason's book will give you practical advice and drills that can help you become a more fit, faster runner while reducing the chance for injury.  We discuss:

  • How to prevent injuries
  • Strength and core workouts
  • Goal oriented motivation for fun
  • Discipline vs. motivation
  • Is the 10% rule for everyone?
  • Consistence is the "secret sauce"
  • From from the beginning
  • Short Hill repeats are the secret for injury prevention
  • What are Strides? and how can they help you?

Visit his Website Strength Running or visit his blog

Contact Jason HERE

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Don, if you ever wondered, you've been running all these years.

0:06.8

You feel like you're in pretty good shape.

0:08.7

Why do you pay the same amount for life insurance and someone else does?

0:13.1

Well, I see.

0:14.1

I see.

0:15.1

The guy that's sitting on a couch eating Cheetos.

0:16.2

Why should you have to pay the same amount as someone that is sedentary?

0:20.1

It doesn't seem fair to me.

0:21.6

You know, there's a company out there, Health IQ.

0:24.4

I don't know if you've noticed.

0:26.1

I've come across it on Facebook.

0:27.6

They have Facebook page ads.

0:29.6

And I started looking into it and there's a guy that started running when he was 37

0:34.9

and he had that same thought he's going, you know, I'm putting in this work.

0:38.0

There should be a financial benefit because I'm trying to keep my body healthy.

0:42.8

And so he started looking around saying, can I get better health insurance or

0:48.0

life insurance because I'm in shape and there was nothing out there.

0:52.7

And so he started a company that basically brings the insurance companies in line with

0:59.4

healthy runners to give them lower rates.

1:02.0

And it's called Health IQ.

1:03.6

That's brilliant.

1:04.6

It is.

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