Strength Training at Home with Four Women Runners

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This is the ideal episode for any active woman looking to kickstart a strength-training routine. Along with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Britany Williams (a fitness professional!), four women runners share how they strength train in home set-ups, telling: -their progressions from light weights to heavy ones; -how they determine their strength-training routines; -how one couldn’t wait to swap marathon training for lifting; -what motivates them (including sword-play prep!); and, -about finding equipment bargains (including dumpster diving!). Before the first guest join at 9:07, trainer Britany gives a quick strength-training primer. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.We appreciate your—and their—support! Run ’round Portland! Use code AMR20 for $20 off registration at portlandmarathon.com Get 20% off, plus free shipping, on allIQBAR products by texting AMR to 64-000 Use code INF-AMR to get a gift card good for your next purchase at Selkirk.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Head out here to the Rose City to take part in the Portland Marathon on October 5th.
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0:23.6	Use code INF-Amr to get a gift card for a future purchase at Selkirk.com.
0:40.4	Welcome to another mother runner.
0:41.8	This is Sarah Bowen-Shay.
0:43.5	I'm joined today by Brittany Williams.
0:44.2	Hello, Brittany.
0:45.1	Hello, Sarah.
0:45.8	How are you doing today?
0:47.2	I am good.
0:48.9	I'm fresh off a lake swim.
0:50.0	Oh, look at you.
0:50.7	Yes.
0:56.9	So, but we're not talking about swimming, and we're really not even talking about running today. I know. Look at us. Something new.
1:05.0	So, so we are going to be talking about strength training and I'm jumping right into it because, you know, you are the expert here.
1:12.0	So want to lay some ground rules with that. But let me back up a sec because, you know, we encourage and emphasize strength training so much around another mother runner that I decided we needed to do
1:16.5	an episode about it. And so rather than bringing on, you know, expert to talk about it, I was like,
1:22.6	okay, how about I get Brittany to be the co-host and then get real women to talk about what they do because
1:29.2	I love our episodes that have real women on it. So why? I think it's wonderful. Oh, good. Thank you.
1:34.3	Thank you. So then in recruiting real women, I was like, oh my gosh, so many great stories, so many great people.
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