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Kennedy Saves the World

Saving You From Exercise Boredom

Kennedy Saves the World

FOX News Podcasts

Entertainment News, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.5813 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kennedy challenges people to shift how they think about exercising and instead consider their workouts as training. Kennedy explains how she discovered the power of changing your perception of exercise when she first began training for triathlons, the mistakes she made when she first began participating in races and the emotional experience of victory she felt was after completing a half Iron Man. Follow Kennedy on Twitter: @KennedyNation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.9

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0:27.9

Peel, saves the world.

0:49.2

Don't ever take a break from your own fitness.

0:51.5

So I'm going to save you from exercise boredom because I want you to

0:55.8

shift how you think about exercising, how you think about working out. And I would like to recommend

1:02.5

that you turn it into training. I grew up watching Iron Man races with my dad. You do that as a kid.

1:13.2

You know, you watch on NBC. There was a guy named Mark Allen. They called him the grip. And he was just an incredible, well-rounded athlete.

1:19.3

And I really grew up believing that triathletes were superhumans because they could do three

1:25.8

separate sports so well competing against each other. And the Iron Man, of course, is the longest sanctioned race in triathlon. And now it's a series. The Iron Mancona is probably the most famous one. And that's what I used to watch with my dad. My dad was a marathon runner. He was a really fast marathon runner. I calculated after he died that he was

1:48.1

running like a seven-minute mile in marathons, which is just phenomenal and something that I will

1:54.5

never be able to accomplish because I'm not a fast runner. But I always enjoyed and idealized

2:00.2

the sport of triathlon. So cut to years later, when I was in my

2:05.0

20s, I was running a lot and I injured my knee as a lot of people do when they do just one thing.

2:11.2

And, you know, maybe you've done that. Maybe you have one sport that you've always played or you've

2:15.6

got one thing that you do at the gym and then you know

2:18.5

repetitive stress tendonitis what strain a ligament whatever the case may be you're kind of sideline from

2:26.1

that so that's what happened to me so I was uh I grew up cycling and running but I never swam

2:31.7

so when I hurt my knee I couldn't run and I couldn't bike. So I started

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