s4/e25 “Why Am I Gaining Weight During Marathon Training?” and Other Questions About Weight & Body Composition with Holley Samuel, RD
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
"Why am I GAINING weight in marathon training?? I'm running so much!" This week Holley Samuel, RD, returns to the pod for a conversation about weight loss, weight gain, 'weight anxiety', performance, health, and so much more!
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- Reasons for Weight Gain During Marathon Training
- Shifting the Focus from Appearance to Performance and Health
- Embracing Body Changes Throughout Different Stages of Life
- Challenging the Moralistic View of Weight
- Inclusivity and Health in Larger Bodies
- Breaking Stereotypes in the Running Community
- appearance vs. Performance in Elite Athletes
- Seeking Multiple Opinions and Focusing on Overall Health
GUEST BIO Holley Samuel is a dietitian, personal trainer, master of education & eating disorders, and podcaster at her virtual practice Holley Fueled Nutrition. Holley works with runners and helps them learn to fuel their bodies without restriction, make peace with food, and prevent injuries to become stronger and faster runners for life. https://holleyfuelednutrition.com
HOST BIO Coach Elisabeth is the Founder and Head Coach at Running Explained, 6x marathoner, multi-certified coach, Boston Qualifier, and enthusiastic believer in your ability to turn the impossible into the possible. Whether you're a brand new runner or have been pounding the pavement for decades, she believes there is always more to learn about running and always more that running can teach us about life. Crush your goals with a Running Explained training plan, masterclass, group coaching, or 1:1 coaching, or learn from her meticulously researched Instagram posts on a wide variety of running-related topics
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explained podcast. I'm your host, Coach Elizabeth. When I started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. So now I'm here to answer all your questions about running and running adjacent topics to help you become a better, smarter, more knowledgeable runner. Whether you're brand new or you've been doing this for a while, there's always more |
| 0:22.6 | we can learn about running. |
| 0:24.7 | My guest this week is Holly Samuel of Holly Field Nutrition, a guest on this show previously |
| 0:29.9 | and a friend of the pod for sure. |
| 0:33.1 | And this week we are talking about weight in performance and training and weight anxiety and weight loss |
| 0:41.0 | and weight gain and a lot of the things that we don't tend to talk about in the sport as much |
| 0:45.6 | like you're not supposed to talk about the fact that you don't want to gain weight or that you've |
| 0:49.6 | upset that you've gained weight or you want to lose weight or you somebody told you should you lose |
| 0:53.9 | wave you don't want to lose weight those types types of things. And the lead off question is the |
| 0:57.5 | inspiration for this episode was the very frequent question that I know I get, I know she gets, |
| 1:04.6 | why am I gaining weight during marathon training? So that's what we start with. Enjoy. Holly, Samuel, welcome back to the show. How are you? |
| 1:13.9 | Hi, I'm great. Thank you so much for having me on again. I always love coming on your show. |
| 1:19.0 | Well, it's always a joy to talk to you both on and offline. And since your last appearance on the |
| 1:24.2 | podcast, we talked about low carb diets for endurance runners. You've had a big |
| 1:28.4 | life update. So tell us what's going on with you. Yeah, first, thanks for inviting me on that one. |
| 1:33.9 | I reference people back to that episode all the time. So it's nice to have that in the toolbox. |
| 1:39.0 | But yeah, too, big life update. Yeah, I produced a whole new human. I had had my first baby. His name is Owen. And he's |
| 1:46.9 | about five and a half months old. So we are deep into postpartum and first time parenthood over here. |
| 1:52.7 | How's it going? It's going good. Yeah, it's going good. It's definitely a life shift. It's something |
| 1:59.3 | that was planned that we prepared for. So I feel like it's |
| 2:02.4 | been the smoothest it could possibly be, which I'm very fortunate and lucky to say. But yeah, it's awesome. |
| 2:08.6 | It's really fun. Well, today in our conversation we're talking about, and when I pitched this topic to |
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