S8 EP8: Anyone Can Run with Guest Kelly Roberts

The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast

Constantly Varied Gear

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 716 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Kelly is a runner who shares her love of running with other women. She is head coach and creator of the Badass Lady Gang. BALG is about enjoying life with a side of running. Over the years she’s coached thousands of women from brand new runners to Boston Marathon runners and appeared on the cover of Women’s Running Magazine. Kelly’s philosophy measures success by confidence gained, not pounds lost.

Listen to the episode to hear what Kelly is thinking about who is or isn’t a runner and whether running organized races matters, how she helped women redefine their relationship with running, and the importance of paying attention to how you’re actually feeling as a health marker.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode

- How Kelly found her passion for running and what made her want to share it

- Who can call themselves a runner

- Whether a runner needs to run organized races

- How Kelly helps women redefine what running means to them

- The “poison punch of the fitness and diet industry

- Telling people to stop weighing themselves for health and fitness

- The importance of how you’re feeling as a health marker

- What Kelly’s athletes most commonly need to unlearn

- Defining the person you want to be

Related Links:

The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
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Our Fitness FB Group.
Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
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Kelly on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellykkroberts/?hl=en
Badass Lady Gang: https://www.badassladygang.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0	I always tell everybody to like a good barometer to start to get and like move in that direction
0:04.7	because it's very hard in the beginning.
0:06.7	It's like ask yourself, do I want to?
0:09.0	If the answer is a resounding no, don't do it.
0:12.2	Even if, even if like you've missed all the days and you're in that position where you're
0:17.2	like, I don't think I'm going to be ready on race day.
0:19.8	If you don't want to do it, why are you forcing yourself to do something? Go do something else. Maybe the goal isn't it.
0:29.9	The big question is this. In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals?
0:42.3	We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives through fitness and health.
0:49.3	Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well
0:56.4	a part of your life. Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. Welcome to the Thick
1:04.1	Thighs Save Lives Podcast. Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thysay Lives podcast.
1:11.6	Today, I am joined with head coach and creator of the badass lady gang.
1:16.8	BALG is about enjoying life with a side of running.
1:20.8	Kelly's philosophy measures success by confidence gained, not pounds lost.
1:25.4	So she fits right in with the TTSL podcast.
1:29.6	If you aren't having fun, it's time to pivot.
1:32.3	Kelly is an RRCA certified coach and has completed Dr.
1:37.2	Stacey Sims, women are not small men certification course, helping coaches better serve
1:43.7	female athletes. Over the years,
1:45.8	Kelly has coached thousands of women from brand new runners to those chasing Boston Marathon
1:51.5	qualifying times. Kelly has appeared on the cover of Women's Running Magazine, joined by Nike at the
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