Guest Post: HOW TO OVERCOME EXCUSES AND SAFELY GET BACK TO RUNNING POST PREGNANCY
What do you think are the main things that stand in the way of getting back into running for new mums?
This guest post with Sheree Brown from the awesome Port Melbourne Physiotherapy and Pilates explores exactly that! Sheree and I explore accountability, motivation, overcoming excuses and how to safely get back into your exercise after giving birth.
Head over to the Port Melbourne Physiotherapy and Pilates website to check out this guest post.
How to stop runners 'bonking', or hitting the wall
Have you ever 'hit the wall' in a race? Not a great feeling is it?
I recently chatted to ExecutiveStyle about late race fatigue and some things to consider when looking to beat the dreaded 'bonk'! Thanks very much to Laura Hill for the interview and write up.
From Injury to 5km PB!
Returning from injury is not easy. It can be frustrating, annoying and tests our patience to the limit. It was great to chat to Jane recently about how she has gone from serious injury to 5km personal best times by training consistently. I loved this quote in particular...
"The first few weeks were hard, but you just have to get out there and do it!
Jane has come back from a stress fracture in her foot, to running with confidence again and smashing personal best times at her local parkrun in Melbourne! Jane talks me through what she thinks of her Go Run training plan and how she keeps consistently training despite lots of travel with her work, by telling herself to " just get out there and do it." She also shares some of the awesome events that she is considering for 2016. Enjoy!
Are you ready to run? If the answer is "YES!" then sign up here for your own running coach and personalised monthly training plan to get you running stronger, longer and faster. I will get in touch straight away and we can begin working on getting your running to where you really want it to be!
"There's no way I can run 5k!"
I have heard this quote from lots of runners when they first start running...
"There's no way I can run 5k!"
In this interview I chat to Maddie who also uttered those words at one point. Maddie talks to me about how she went from "the girl who can't run" at school, and not running even 3 years ago, to a marathon personal best time at Melbourne Marathon in October 2015. I find Maddie's story inspirational and I loved hearing about how she overcame some of the stresses associated with running and in particular the question of "what are people going to think of me?" in her most recent marathon. Enjoy!
Are you ready to run? If the answer is "YES!" then sign up here for your own running coach and personalised monthly training plan to get you running stronger, longer and faster. I will get in touch straight away and we can begin working on getting your running to where you really want it to be!
"I just want to get fit and stop getting injured"
I hear this phrase from runners all the time...
"I just want to get fit and stop getting injured."
Particularly at this time of year, we have a tendency to go too hard into a new fitness routine, too soon. There is no quicker way to undo all of your hard work, than getting injured, and trust me, getting injured sucks! The mere thought of it was enough to persuade me to do a short 5 minute video talking to Physiotherapist Sally Maple about running injuries and how to prevent them. I ask her about areas to watch out for and stretches and exercises to help keep you injury free.
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“I think I am going to do an extra session that isn’t on the plan.”
Four days later I was still suffering and struggling through planned training sessions that I should have been nailing. Schoolboy error.
When I mentioned this faux-pas to more experienced athletes, I got knowing looks, wry smiles and was delivered the line, “don’t think, just do.”
Not thinking used to be a bit of an issue for me. I tend to mull things over. A lot. It is probably the main reason why I opted to become part of a coaching set up in the first place. I was paralysed by a myriad of training regimes, plans, articles, blogs, magazines all suggesting polar opposites. I eventually (after a lot of thinking) decided once I had committed to the Melbourne Ironman in early 2015, that it would be best to trust someone to help me work through all of the options. I teamed up with a coach.