s1/e28 STRESS (& Running)
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this solo episode, it's all about STRESS! Poor, misunderstood stress. Did you know that stress is actually a good thing, in the proper doses? Did you know how important the recovery from a stressor is? Do you know WHY chronically elevated cortisol is so dangerous?
- What IS stress?
- Chronic vs acute stress
- Stress & the stress response
- Allostatic load, and allostasis vs homeostasis
- Your lazy brain
- CORTISOL (when it's good, when it's bad, and the relationship between running, cortisol, and weight management)
- Considering and quantifying training load/training stress
- Cumulative fatigue, overreaching, and overtraining
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:08.2 | When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my |
| 0:14.6 | own to figure all of the answers. So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make |
| 0:19.9 | you a better, smarter, |
| 0:22.0 | faster runner. There's no question too simple and no topic too complex. So let's get started. |
| 0:28.5 | My guest this week is me. It's a solo episode. I'm my own guest. It's just me today on the microphone |
| 0:35.6 | talking about stress. The topic today is stress, |
| 0:40.7 | which is a massive, massive topic, a huge, wide-ranging concept. Today we're talking about stress. |
| 0:50.7 | Like, what is stress? Not the way that we talk about it colloquially, but like what actually |
| 0:54.9 | is stress, a scientific definition of stress, chronic versus acute stress, talking about really |
| 1:00.6 | fun stuff like allostatic load and cortisol and things that cause overtraining. What your training |
| 1:08.9 | load and training stress actually means and then ways that you |
| 1:12.1 | can apply these concepts to your own training life. But before we get started, I just want to say |
| 1:20.8 | a super quick thank you to everybody who has listened to any episode of this podcast. This is episode number 32, which is wild to think |
| 1:30.9 | about. I did not intend to start a podcast when I started running explained. Believe it or not, |
| 1:36.6 | the grand plan was a YouTube channel, which, holy crap, those things are, that was a quickly abandoned |
| 1:44.1 | idea. |
| 1:45.0 | Those are so labor intensive to every vlogger out there. |
| 1:48.4 | I don't know how you find the hours in the day. |
| 1:51.4 | But thank you to all my listeners, to every single person who has shared an episode, |
| 1:57.4 | who has given me feedback about something that they learned. I am so immensely grateful for |
| 2:03.3 | you. The podcast is totally free. I do not have any ads or sponsors yet, hopefully one day, |
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