s2/e30 Running for Health, & "Health vs. Performance" with Elizabeth Knight, PhD, DNP, FNP-C (@flowerpower.health)
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
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🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
RUNNING IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH, but how & why? Health versus performance; is it an either/or? Dr. Elizabeth Knight joins the show to talk all things health & running, including the cardiovascular benefits of regular exercise, health vs. performance, health AND performance and more!
- Running to be healthy: how much running do we need to do?
- The cardiovascular benefits of regular running
- What is chronic inflammation and why is it bad?
- Health vs. performance: MORE exercise isn't always better
- Creating peak performance through good health
- Yes, testing the limits of your ability can be healthy!
- And more!
Elizabeth lives and runs in Portland, Oregon. When she’s not on the trails in Forest Park, she works as a nurse practitioner and owns an integrative health coaching practice, Flower Power Health, where she works with runners. She’s passionate about science, inclusivity, and helping people approach their bodies with kindness and curiosity. A few of her favorite things are dogs, rock and roll, and pizza. You can find her online at www.flowerpower.health and on Instagram @flowerpower.health.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:06.9 | When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my own to figure all of the answers. |
| 0:15.2 | So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a better, smarter, faster runner. There's no question |
| 0:23.0 | too simple and no topic too complex. So let's get started. My guest this week is Dr. Elizabeth |
| 0:28.3 | Knight, nurse practitioner and integrative health coach, who is also a runner herself. In this episode, |
| 0:34.4 | we're talking about running for health, like running in the context of creating a healthier human. |
| 0:40.4 | And then also exploring a bit about health versus performance. |
| 0:44.7 | Is running to our absolute limit healthy? |
| 0:48.8 | What does health actually mean in this context? |
| 0:51.4 | Are there situations in which chasing performance might be damaging to our |
| 0:55.0 | health? And how health and performance can coexist, and that's good news for all of us. |
| 1:02.7 | Elizabeth, Dr. Knight, welcome to the show. I'm very excited to have you. Thank you, Elizabeth with an |
| 1:07.9 | S. Elizabeth with an S and Elizabeth with a Z. So the very first question |
| 1:12.6 | I ask all of my guests is, how did you become a runner? Yeah, for me, I first took up running as an |
| 1:20.8 | adult. I wasn't a runner in school. I didn't run track. I didn't run cross country. I actually |
| 1:24.6 | took up running when I was in nursing school. So I'm a nurse practitioner as my profession. And when I was first getting into that, nursing school is hard. |
| 1:33.8 | And I think people don't realize sort of what's involved in that, but it's a really science |
| 1:38.5 | heavy education followed by really intense clinical experiences and often really long clinical days and learning |
| 1:45.9 | this stuff that's both very intellectual, like you do biochemistry, just like you would for |
| 1:50.7 | med school, and then you go spend time in the hospital with patients. And a lot of times the |
| 1:56.3 | students are the ones who are really spending intensive time with people in the hospital. |
| 2:01.7 | And as you're learning how to do that, it's a lot. And sort of getting used to being in that |
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