The Strength Running Podcast

By Jason Fitzgerald

What's The Strength Running Podcast about?

The Strength Running Podcast is where Coach Jason Fitzgerald shares running advice for new and veteran runners who are passionate about getting stronger, preventing running injuries, and racing faster. Featuring guests like Olympian Nick Symmonds and New York Times best-selling author Shalane Flanagan, you’ll learn what it takes to run fast, stay healthy, and become a better runner.

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09.23.2021

Lydia Nader is a Registered Dietitian with a graduate degree in nutrition and wellness. She coaches athletes on how to optimize their nutrition. She’s a volunteer coach for Girls on the Run and has completed an ultramarathon, and numerous marathons. ...

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09.23.2021 214. Lydia Nader RD on the Biggest Nutrition Myths and Half-Truths for Runners Lydia Nader is a Registered Dietitian with a graduate degree in nutrition and wellness. She coaches athletes on how to optimize their nutrition. She’s a volunteer coach for Girls on the Run and has completed an ultramarathon, and numerous marathons. ...
09.16.2021 213. Endeavorun Live Q&A with Kate Grace, Matt Fitzgerald, Lydia Nader, and Peter Bromka (Part 1) Today we're doing something a little different with a panel of running experts. We are discussing a variety of topics, everything from training-related questions to the not-so-serious ones. Endeavorun created a unique experience for a group of runner enthusiasts. We ...
09.09.2021 212. 5-Time Olympian Abdi Abdirahman on Longevity, Having Fun, and His Ultra Aspirations Abdi Abdirahman is a 5-time Olympian and the oldest American runner to qualify for the Olympics. He is the oldest male to podium at the NYC Marathon, and USATF’s master’s record holder in the marathon. Abdi is also a 4-time ...
09.02.2021 211. Sport Scientist Phil Hayes, PhD on How the Science of Running is Changing Professor Phil Hayes is a senior lecturer at Northumbria University where he spent 14 years as the leader of the Applied Sport and Exercise Science Program. He researches muscle strength and how it affects running performance, form, and injury risk. ...
08.26.2021 210. Triggers, Pressure, and Stress: Addie Bracy, CMPC on How to Train Your Mind Addie Bracy is an expert in mental training for the athlete. She excels on the road, on the track, and on the trails and mountains. She’s a Certified Mental Performance Consultant, author of Mental Training for Ultrarunning, and has consulted ...
08.19.2021 209. How Olympian Colleen Quigley is Coming Back Strong from Injury Colleen Quigley, one of the most dominant steeplechasers in American history, has represented the US at the World Championships and Olympics, won the 2019 indoor mile national championships, and she’s hungrier than ever to get back to training and top ...
08.12.2021 208. How to Leverage Sleep for Better Performance, with Ryan Wooderson, DPT, OCS Ryan Wooderson owns Long Run Physiotherapy & Performance in Denver, Colorado and has spent nearly a decade helping athletes get healthy and stay healthy. He is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and completed his orthopedic residency at the University of ...
08.05.2021 207. Physio Brodie Sharpe on How to Run a New Personal Best (without injuries) Brodie Sharpe is a runner and a physiotherapist based in Australia who helps injured runners get healthy and stay that way. He is the host of The Run Smarter Podcast and has certifications from The Running Clinic, the Running Repairs ...
07.29.2021 206. Uphill Athlete Coach Scott Johnston on the Tripod of Endurance Our guest today is Scott Johnston, an expert in endurance sports including everything from alpine skiing to mountain running. He has worked with Killian Jornet, arguably one of the best ultra endurance athletes on the planet, and numerous top cross ...
07.22.2021 205. Ultra Legend Krissy Moehl: Getting Hooked on Mountainous Ultras, Evolving Her Training, and Tips For You Krissy Moehl has completed hunderds of ultra races and has over 50 first place finishes in the female category, along with several outright wins. She has won some of the hardest 100 mile courses on the planet, including the Hardrock ...
07.15.2021 204. Rambling Runner Matt Chittim on Building Passion for Running and Lessons Learned from 500+ Podcast Episodes Matt Chittim is the host for the Rambling Runner and Road to the Trials podcasts. He is a running coach and, of course, a passionate runner himself. He is enthusiastic about amateur runners and contributes so much to the community ...
07.08.2021 203. How Ultra Endurance Athlete Damian Hall Runs 250+ Miles (and you can, too!) Damian Hall is one of the best ultra endurance athletes in the UK. He has represented Great Britain at the trail world championships, holds 7 records or Fastest Known Times (FKTs) and he has competed in the Sahara Desert and ...
07.01.2021 202. Pro Runner Megan Roche, MD on Training After COVID and Post-Vaccine Megan Roche is the 2016 USATF Trail Runner of the Year at the ultra and sub-ultra distances. She is a five-time national champion, a North American Mountain Running Champion, and a six-time member of Team USA. She graduated from Duke ...
06.24.2021 201. Ultrarunner Clare Gallagher on Racing 100 Miles, Low-Mileage Training, and Her Meteoric Career Clare Gallagher burst onto the ultrarunning scene with her first attempt at a 100-mile race, the Leadville 100, which she won despite being brand new to the distance. She followed up with wins of the grueling Western States 100 Mile ...
06.17.2021 200. Chris Napier PT, PhD on Form, Strength, and the Best Injury Prevention Strategies Chris Napier quite literally wrote the book on the Science of Running. He is a professor of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver as well as a practicing physiotherapist, 2:33 marathoner, and medal winner at the ...
06.10.2021 199. Is a 10-Day Training Cycle Right For You? (with Mario Fraioli) Our guest today is coach Mario Fraioli, a 2:27 marathoner who hosts the Morning Shakeout podcast and publishes the newsletter of the same name. Mario coaches a wide variety of elite and sub-elite runners and has been involved in the ...
06.03.2021 198. How to Start Running: A Beginner’s Guide, with Coach Alli Felsenthal Alli Felsenthal is a certified running coach, personal trainer, Boston Qualifier, 86-minute half marathoner, fitness class instructor, and host of the Run with Alli Live Podcast. She came to running later in life but has progressed quickly after leaving her ...
05.27.2021 197. Race Strategy Fundamentals: How to Pace Every Type of Race This episode is about racing and the pacing approaches available to you to help you run your best. Most of us would love to run faster and a big part of that is how you approach racing. But I’ve gotten ...
05.20.2021 196. Injury Prevention Q&A with Cohost Tina Muir Tina Muir is a former pro runner and the host of the Running Realized Podcast and Running for Real Podcast. She’s an 11-time All-American athlete and elite athlete for Great Britain who has run in two British Olympic Trials. In ...
05.13.2021 195. Peter Bromka on Pacing the Pro’s and Seeing Desiree Linden Break the 50k WR Peter Bromka recently got to pace Chirine Njeim to a 2:36 marathon PR in pursuit of qualifying for the Olympics. On the same course, at the same time, Desiree Linden broke 3 hours in the 50K ultramarathon and set a ...
05.06.2021 194. Coach Kevin Carr on Functional Training, Multiplanar Exercises, and Movement Quality Strength and conditioning coach Kevin Carr has worked with Olympians and many other types of athletes. He has amassed a wealth of experience in functional anatomy, sports performance, and personal training. He is also the coauthor of the new book ...
04.29.2021 193. Running and Identity: How Endeavorun CEO Jake Tuber is Making a Comeback and Navigating Uncertainty Jake Tuber is a part-time graduate school professor, a former college teammate of mine, and the creative force behind the Endeavorun Running Retreat. He is a sprinter turned distance runner with a story about how his first real injury caused ...
04.22.2021 192. Dr. Stacy Sims On Female Physiology and Training Differences Between the Sexes Everything from training to fueling has predominantly been researched on men and written about by men. Women’s hormonal variations tend to skew research data so those results are often thrown out. As a professional triathlete, Dr. Stacy Sims recognized that ...
04.20.2021 191. Icon Dean Karnazes on the Future of Ultras, His Competitive Drive, and His Advice to You Dean Karnazes is an ultra endurance athlete who is highly regarded well beyond the world of running. He was named by TIME magazine as one of the most 100 influential people in the world, he is an ESPN ESPY winner, ...
04.15.2021 190. New Coaching Call! How to Train For Your First Hilly Trail Race This episode features a coaching call about how to best prepare for a hilly trail race when you’ve never run one before. Even if you’re not gearing up for trails or hills, this is a valuable discussion on sound training ...
04.13.2021 189. Former LA Lakers Strength Coach Tim DiFrancesco on Why Runners Must Get Strong Tim DiFrancesco is the former Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team. After spending more than six seasons in the NBA, he left to grow TD Athletes Edge, his performance-oriented strength facility in Salem, ...
04.08.2021 188: Harness the Power of a Growth Mindset with Professor Alison Pope-Rhodius Alison Pope-Rhodius is a professor of Applied Sport and Performance Psychology and a Program Director at Holy Names University in California. She is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant and the co-editor of Excelling in Sport Psychology: Planning, Preparing, and Executing ...
04.06.2021 187. Get to Know the Coach: An Interview with Strength Running Founder Jason Fitzgerald Jason Fitzgerald started Strength Running in 2010 with a small blog after he ran his first marathon in 2:44 and suffered through a severe IT Band injury. 11 years later, Strength Running is now a multimedia company with a YouTube ...
04.01.2021 186. The Physiology of Altitude: What Training at 10,000 Feet Does to Your Body Today, we're talking to Jonathan Levitt who took his high altitude training seriously. Not only is he paying attention to how he performs at 9,600 feet, he's also using blood tests to track important biomarkers that indicate how his body ...
03.30.2021 185. Ultrarunner Candice Burt on Running 800 Miles, Hallucinating, and Discovering Yourself Candice Burt holds the FKT - or Fastest Known Time - on the 171-mile Tahoe Rim Trail, the 95-mile Wonderland Trail, and the 20-mile Enchantment Lakes Traverse. She won the Delirious W.E.S.T. 200-mile (which is actually 219 miles) and placed ...
03.25.2021 184. How to Engineer a Marathon Breakthrough: A Behind-the-Scenes Coaching Call Brian is a consistent runner with two decades of experience and over 25 marathons under his belt. While his fastest marathon was 2:59 back in 2013, he hasn't been able to set a new PR since. As a member of ...
03.18.2021 183. Dr. Duncan Simpson on Brain Training and Why Focus is the Top Mental Skill Dr. Duncan Simpson has a PhD in Sport Psychology and is the Director of Personal Development at IMG Academy, a multi-sport training institution in Florida. He has worked with children, high school students, and professional and Olympic athletes in a ...
03.11.2021 182. Tension, Impact Force, and Energy Return: A Running Technique Masterclass Shane Benzie is a running coach, movement specialist, researcher and the founder of the Running Reborn coaching platform. He has worked with beginners to world record holding runners all over the world to help them harness their elasticity and improvement ...
03.04.2021 181. Trail Runner Magazine’s Zoe Rom on Environmental Justice and Why it Matters Zoë Rom is the Associate Editor of Trail Runner Magazine, host of the DNF podcast and an outspoken advocate for environmental justice. She has a Master’s Degree in Environmental Journalism from the University of Colorado and has a deep passion ...
02.25.2021 180. Pro Dana Giordano on Betting on Yourself, Taking Risks, and Making Running More Fun Dana Giordano is a middle-distance pro runner for Adidas and the Boston Athletics Association (B.A.A.). Prior to becoming a pro, she worked at Reebok for several years as a Product Manager, while keeping up with running as a lifestyle sport. ...
02.18.2021 179. Dr. Caitlin Alexander on Long-Term Injuries, Self-Treatment, and Disrupted Motor Patterns Dr. Caitlin Alexander is a physical therapist at Build Sports Performance Lab & Physical Therapy in Boulder, Colorado with a certification in Applied Functional Science. She's a certified triathlon coach, running coach, and has experience working with elite-level athletes. She's ...
02.11.2021 178. Are Minimalist Shoes For You? Xero Shoes CEO Steven Sashen on the Promises of Minimalism Steven Sashen is a Master’s All-American sprinter and one of the fastest sprinters over 50 in the United States. He’s a former All-American gymnast, a professional stand-up comic, a cognitive psychology researcher, and he previously tought Tai Chi and Zen ...
02.04.2021 177. How to ‘Make the Leap’ and Create Your Next Performance Breakthrough Our guest today is Bryan Green, the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Go Be More apparel, host of the Go Be More Podcast, organizer of the Ignite Sendai Conference in Japan that connects entrepreneurs, and author of the new ...
01.28.2021 176. Unlocking Dominance: Exploring Ethiopia’s Running Culture with Professor Michael Crawley Michael Crawley is an anthropology professor at Durham University in England. A 2:20 marathoner, he spent 15 months training with the best runners in Ethiopia to figure out the secrets to their success. His book, Out of Thin Air, is ...
01.21.2021 175. Injury Expert Jay Dicharry on the 4 Physical Skills Needed for Pain-Free Running Jay Dicharry is a physical therapist who rose to prominence as an expert in biomechanical analysis as Director of the SPEED Clinic at the University of Virginia. He has written two books that are highly recommended for our community: Anatomy ...
01.14.2021 174. Sprint and Speed Development for Endurance Runners with Coach Ryan Banta Ryan Banta is a coach with more than 19 years of experience and the author of the Sprinter’s Compendium. At the high school level, Ryan has produced 135 All-State medalists, including 10 state champions and 15 runners-up. His teams have ...
01.07.2021 173. Tom “Tinman” Schwartz on Smart Training and the Secret Sauce of Tinman Elite Tom Schwartz, also known as Tinman, has over 30 years of coaching experience. He has worked with youth runners, masters, and professionals. Tom has developed dozens of D1 collegiate athletes, national champions, and national record holders and works with athletes ...
12.30.2020 172. Off-Season Training: What to do In-Between Seasons This episode is all about the off-season. The "in between" time between seasons of running. You'll learn how to best structure this time based on your goals, weaknesses, and ability. This episode was the suggestion from a listener. He asked ...
12.23.2020 171. Behind-the-Scenes of a Major Marathon: Eli Asch on Directing Big Races Eli Asch is currently the Race Director for the Twin Cities Marathon. Prior to this role, he directed the California International Marathon (CIM), which hosted two USATF marathon national championships. Under his direction, CIM was the fastest-growing major marathon in ...
12.17.2020 170. Noah Droddy on Rapid Improvement and Engineering Your Next Performance Breakthrough Noah Droddy is a professional runner, 2-time Olympic Trials Qualifier, 2-time collegiate All-American, and a 2:11 marathoner. He is sponsored by Saucony and trains under Richard Hansen in Boulder, Colorado for the Roots Running Project. His sights are currently set ...
12.10.2020 169: Busting 10 Running Myths (BQ's, Weight Loss, Stretching, and More!) Have you wondered if a BQ time is out of reach for you? Or if you’re “good enough” to hire a coach? Or maybe you’re still sorting out where running fits in with muscle building versus weight loss? We have ...
12.03.2020 168. Olympian Molly Huddle: How to Stay Driven, Be a Role Model, and Run Mentally Tough Molly is one of the best runners in the world. She holds the American Record in the 10k, 20k, and the half marathon. She represented the United States at the 2012 Olympics, qualifying for the 5,000m final and finishing 11th. ...
11.25.2020 167. The Ultimate Taper Episode with Author Alex Hutchinson Alex Hutchinson holds a PhD in Physics from Cambridge, a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia, and is a former national-class runner in Canada. He has written for Runner’s World, Outside Online, The Globe and Mail, Popular Mechanics, and many other ...
11.19.2020 166. Dr. Amber Shipherd on Building Confidence, Self-Efficacy, and Positive Self-Talk Self-efficacy is one of the most important concepts in the world of performance psychology. Most of us understand this idea as "confidence" but it's actually more specific than that. It means: "Self-efficacy refers to an individual's belief in his or ...
11.12.2020 165. Ask the Dietitian: Should Runners Follow an Anti-inflammatory, Alkaline, or Microbiome Diet? Most diets claim to deliver one big goal. For some, that's making the body more alkaline (the opposite of acidic). Others promise to help you lose weight, reduce inflammation, improve gut health, increase mental clarity, burn fat, and generally just ...

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