s3/e11 Understanding Discipline & Motivation with Coach Elisabeth
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
What IS discipline and how do we cultivate it? Do you struggle to stay "motivated" and be consistent? Do you believe that discipline is about sacrifice, denial, and rigidly inflexible scheduling? Coach Elisabeth explores the concepts of discipline, motivation, and willpower in this solo episode!
Discipline & willpower are often associated with self-denial, with struggle, with sacrifice, but that's the wrong way to approach behavior change. Self-discipline is the ability to manage your thoughts, emotions, or behavior in the face of temptation in order to achieve a specific goal, and what your GOAL is and WHY you’re doing it feed into your ability to be consistent in working towards that goal. Learn about extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation, process vs outcome goals, and how our available resources impact our ability to be consistent in the long term!
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Elisabeth Scott is the founder and head coach of Running Explained. She is on a mission to help runners of all abilities and experience levels become better, smarter, and faster runners. Find her at www.runningexplained.co, on Instagram at @runningexplained, and every Thursday on new episodes of the top-rated The Running Explained Podcast, available on all major platforms.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:07.3 | When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. |
| 0:14.2 | And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know. |
| 0:18.7 | If you're a new runner or you or even doing this for a long time, |
| 0:21.1 | there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. Hello everyone. |
| 0:26.8 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I am Elizabeth and this week we are going to be talking about |
| 0:32.4 | discipline, cultivating discipline and what that actually means. But before we get started, I want to go through a few fun housekeeping items about what's going on in the running explained world. |
| 0:44.3 | First off, the Boston Marathon is coming up in just a few weeks. |
| 0:49.3 | And if you're going to be in Boston for the marathon, either spectating or volunteering or running. We are doing |
| 0:55.4 | a Sunday morning shakeout run co-hosted by myself, Coach Andrew for the Running Explain |
| 1:01.4 | coaching team will be there along with Sarah Mandershide of Elevate Your Running and Danielle Hart, |
| 1:06.5 | I've run with Coach D. We're going to be doing a lovely little shakeout run. All our welcome 20 to 30 |
| 1:12.9 | minutes around the Boston Common. We're going to meet at the tennis courts on the Boston Common, |
| 1:18.1 | do a little dynamic warm up, do a little pep talk, talk about the conditions, talk about the |
| 1:22.9 | course, talk about tips and tricks, and then be off. If you then need to go pick up your bid at the convention |
| 1:28.2 | center, you can hop on the T station, which is like right there and take it straight on down to |
| 1:32.8 | the convention center. So it is an easy one to 10 a.m. on Sunday, April 16th, tennis courts on the |
| 1:38.6 | Boston Common. I hope to see you there. Another fun little thing that I just did, which is, is I think, something |
| 1:45.5 | I've been meaning to do for a while. There is now a training plan finder quiz available on the |
| 1:52.4 | website. If you have had questions about which training plan might be the right fit for you, |
| 2:02.7 | the quiz is here to help you. It'll help you understand what the best level plan is, if a race specific plan or a base building or a |
| 2:09.2 | speed base plan is the right fit based on your current volume, how long you've been running and what |
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