s3/e41 Off-Seasons: How Taking Time Off Will Make You Better with Coach Toni Kengor
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
How can taking time OFF make you a better, faster, more resilient runner? Coach Toni Kengor, co-founder of Relentless Runners, joins the show to talk ALL THINGS OFF-SEASON!
-Why you need them
-WHEN to take them
-What an off-season is (& is not)
-How to handle feelings of anxiety around "running less"
-The basics of training adaptation and supercompensation
-How to be a runner AND a _______
-"But what if I take a week off and then just never run again?"
-And more!
Toni Kengor is a coach and co-founder of Relentless Runners. She believes that we’re all capable of more than we realize in running and in life. Follow her on Instagram @tonikengor and @relentlessrunners
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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. |
| 0:14.1 | And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know. |
| 0:18.2 | If you're a new runner or you've been doing this for a long time, |
| 0:21.0 | there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. My guest this week is |
| 0:26.3 | running coach Tony Kenjer, co-founder of Relentless Runners. And this week we are talking all about |
| 0:31.1 | the off season. What is an off season you might ask? Oh, don't worry. We'll tell you about it. And how taking an off season, taking time oh don't worry we'll tell you about it and how taking an off season |
| 0:39.4 | taking time off can actually make you a better runner going forward how to do that what that means |
| 0:46.0 | how to assess your relationship with running using the off season and how you can maximize |
| 0:51.3 | should you so choose the offseason for your benefit. |
| 0:56.5 | As always, if you are looking for assistance, guidance, help with your training, your racing, |
| 1:02.9 | Running Explained has your back. |
| 1:05.2 | From training plans to one-on-one coaching, masterclasses, and more, you can always find the |
| 1:09.9 | resources that you need for your running |
| 1:11.7 | at runningexplained.co or follow me on Instagram at running explained. Tony, welcome to the show. I'm excited to |
| 1:18.3 | have you here. Hi, thank you so much for having me. It's such an honor, Elizabeth. So please tell us, |
| 1:25.3 | Tony, how did you become a runner? |
| 1:34.2 | Okay, so I played collegiate soccer and it was my senior year. |
| 1:40.2 | I didn't play my senior year, but my senior year of college, I was very lost. |
| 1:44.7 | Like a lot of college athletes are, even if they play all four years and they usually go through this experience of okay well what do I do now um I didn't know what form of exercise |
| 1:51.1 | I enjoyed and so my roommates at the time some of them I played with some were in other sports |
| 1:58.0 | they were like let's run the Pittsburgh half marathon together. |
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