Have you ever felt like giving up even though you absolutely love the sport and what you do?

Strength is resiliency, stability and power. It's all the things that you need to get through your stride. And if we think  about the biochemical forces in our body, with running, they are huge. We can build some strength through running, the cardiovascular gains tend to happen faster than our muscular fitness gains.

Strength training can help capitalize those cardiovascular gains faster, like help that lagging end of the system build up so that you can get more out of all the gains you are making with your running program and progressing your mileage there and push it along with the strength training.

"More running doesn't always mean better running."

Improve your speed by hitting the weights. Strength training is an essential supplement to a runner's roadwork because it strengthens muscles and joints, which can improve race times and decrease injury risk. If you want to perform at your full potential, you need to take a comprehensive approach to running.

Tune in to learn why strength training is important to runners and what Alison and I think about it.

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Alison Marie Holmes, PHD. She is a woman strength and running coach. A creator of the Women's Run Academy. After struggling with her own return to running postpartum, Allison made her mission to empower and educate herself and others to train with purpose, respect and understanding of their bodies through the continuum of pregnancy, post partum and beyond.

She doesn't just focus on postpartum she really is centered and focused on helping runners be able to run very well and she does that through strength training. She is also a certified personal trainer  and running coach and also a pregnancy postpartum corrective exercise specialist.

In addition, to her fitness, expertise and experience. Alison, holds a doctorate in Chemical Engineering, from Georgia Tech. She has taught everything from sixth grade science to collegiate level engineering courses. And her efficient scientific approach and passion for education helped her to break complex ideas down into the simplest form of what actually works and in a way that you are actually going to do it.

Alison has been featured in a variety of media outlets including FitFluential, Not Your Typical Mom Podcast, The Life Boss Podcast, Runner Mom's Podcast and Shape Magazine.

Alison started running with her mom when she was 9 or 10 years old with her mom's group of friends. She would go with them as her "mom" time. Was able to do running races with her and continued until high school.

You can find more about Alison at www.alisonmariephd.com

It’s really common for any athlete to want to work on technique and do MORE to improve.

Did you know there are a few non-contact injuries that are more prevalent in female athletes? Some of these include ACL tears in the knee and concussions. There are a few reasons why this happens, but one of the main reasons is because the reality is that most female athletes don’t get access to strength training early enough in their life and sport.

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Have you ever felt like the “endurance coaching world” is extremely crowded?

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A very common misconception around sports is that athletes are at their peak health of their life when they’re also achieving peak performance.

Have you ever struggled with sports nutrition during training or events? Or have you been struggling with fatigue daily or have noticed that your energy just isn’t the same during workouts as it has been in the past?

- What specific patterns to become aware of around fueling and nutrition, which will help you create a strategy to overcome them 

- How to combine both health AND performance, especially if you have heard, or ever thought that peak performance comes at a sacrifice to your health 

- And if you can't find time to work on your nutrition or health, maybe we just need to look at this with a different perspective If you'd like to grab the free guide I mentioned on how to build a foundation for a healthy body and peak performance, head to drkirstin.com/finishstrong In the guide, we cover the pillars to creating that foundation including: gut health, inflammation, micronutrient deficiencies and more. 

The first step to improving is awareness and you can start that today. 

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Have you ever wanted to achieve a goal but felt challenged to either get started or stay consistent to reach that goal?

How do you become an Athlete that performs at your peak capabilities AND also has thriving health? The answer may be simpler than you think! In this episode, I have Nicci Robertson from Reinvent Health with us and we break down where people, and athletes, have experienced a lot of confusion around nutrition - particularly with protein! Most people and athletes make the mistake of not eating enough protein or thinking that meat is bad for their health, but Nicci helps us break down where this belief came from and how we can use protein to help us perform better, lose weight, improve our metabolism, overall health and more - and we’ll tell you how to do that!

This episode is all about learning how to fuel properly as an endurance athlete by combining what is needed for sports performance AND how that all interacts with what is going on inside your body. It’s easy to make mistakes here because there are SO many options and opinions in the space, but when we look at what research is saying AND consider what happens with your gut and cells it makes it a lot less confusing.