s2/e22 "Bad Running Advice" with Coach Elisabeth
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Not all advice, however well-intentioned, is good advice. And some advice is downright bad! Coach Elisabeth addressed some "bad running advice", from the misguided to the misunderstood & misconstrued, to the downright dangerous.
- How NOT to train effectively
- When NOT to push through the pain
- What DOESN'T determine your readiness to run a marathon
- Why it's BAD when your body stops sweating
- Taking hydration/fueling DOESN'T slow you down
- There's NO one size fits all plan for your goals
Coach Elisabeth is the founder and Head Coach of Running Explained; her goal is to help educate runners of all abilities and experience levels whatever their goals are to become better, smarter, faster runners! Visit runningexplained.co for Fall Training Groups, training plans, and 1:1 run coaching options!
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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. |
| 0:29.8 | Hey everyone. Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I am Elizabeth. I'm excited to have you here. |
| 0:36.5 | Today's episode is going to be a little bit different |
| 0:38.7 | from something that I've done before because I feel like a lot of the times around here |
| 0:43.3 | we're talking about really serious topics. Right. We're talking about really like important, |
| 0:48.9 | serious, sometimes medical tinged issues about the sport that we love and the mental aspects of it and health |
| 0:56.4 | issues and medical, all these things that can add up to because I'm a little bit more serious. |
| 1:01.5 | But today I want to talk to you about share with you some of the worst running advice |
| 1:08.0 | that I have seen as a professional, as a running professional. I'm not making |
| 1:13.8 | any of this up. I swear to God, this is all genuine advice that I have either seen someone |
| 1:22.5 | provide or someone has tried to usually mansplain to me about. |
| 1:29.3 | Some of it will be obvious why it's wrong. |
| 1:31.9 | Some of it will go through and explain why it's wrong. |
| 1:34.5 | One of the interesting things about terrible advice is that it's not necessarily always |
| 1:39.7 | 100% incorrect. |
| 1:43.4 | It's usually just misunderstood and then misapplied and then kind of twisted |
| 1:49.3 | out of shape. Right. So one of the things, you know, if I were to tell you a patent falsehood, |
| 1:54.4 | right, if I were to say, the best way to train for a running race is to go biking. Like, that's |
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