Training Tuesday #49: Mental Flexibility

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Running, Sports:running, Sports

4.9 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We preach "the process" on this podcast (plan, periodize, execute, etc), but life isn't all about linear progressions. Races pop up, opportunities present themselves, and plans sometimes need to get changed. Kirk and Brakken are each going through that right now, so today they dive into the importance of not being held captive by your training plans. Mental flexibility is an important skill that the best athletes in the world share; here's how to enact it yourself!

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0:00.0	You're listening to the running public.
0:13.2	From marathoners to mud runners, we all have the same goal.
0:16.5	Get to the finish line faster.
0:18.3	That's right.
0:19.0	This podcast is for you guys, the running public.
0:28.5	This is the running public's Training Tuesday. Training Tuesday is where we talk about training
0:34.6	only. One topic, we dive deep, we explore it completely it's training it's
0:39.5	tuesday training tuesday tuesday tuesday bracken you're all fired up over there all fired up
0:47.0	why well we got we got fun announcements kirk fun direction in life right now and so i'm fired up on life
0:53.4	i'm a high on life. I'm high on life.
0:54.9	Ooh, that's the best kind of high.
0:56.8	I heard you went skiing again,
0:58.2	and I know that the listeners are very anxious to find out if you were like a baby deer again or not.
1:04.2	People lit into me on your skiing post.
1:07.4	I know they did.
1:10.1	So I went out again.
1:11.4	This is my second time.
1:12.8	We got snow.
1:13.8	We got eight inches of snow this past week.
1:16.2	It's about time.
1:17.2	Yep.
1:17.9	And I didn't go early.
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