Jun 22, 2019
Coach MK and Coach Sarah stream live Q&A sessions each week on the Fitness Protection Program Facebook Page, The Fitness Protection Program YouTube Channel, and Twitch, simultaneously. Join us! They are a lot of fun and super informative, and anyone may ask follow-up questions during the live broadcast.
Books Referenced in today's
Broadcast:
Running Flow by
Csikszentmihailyi
Running & Breathing by Justin
O'Brien
(Re)Build
Questions
1. I do the majority of my running on a treadmill in the summer.
Should I make any adjustments to the training and/or settings on
the treadmill? How I’ll it correlate to what I will be able to do
on the road? Thankful for you both and the time and effort you are
investing in this program!
2. It’s summer in Texas. I spent more of my avocado toast this week
walking than running. I’m usually good with this, because it’s
ridiculous outside. The only time I am not is when I wistfully
think of a half marathon in 26 weeks. I’m nervous about building up
enough sustained shuffling time when it’s time to jump up to
maintain for that event.
Maintain
Questions
1. Hey Batter Batter Batter- Swing Batter! Aka the Hammer: In the
Swing workout our rest is active recovery. Is the rest for the
Hammer active recovery or actual rest? Thanks for all you do Coach
MK and Coach Sarah!
2. When figuring out our 5k/10k paces, etc., what Easy effort pace
should we base it on? Is it an average of your EE pace over the
course of a run? We don’t do a lot of straight EE runs on maintain,
so it’s hard to determine.
3. Can you please give some tips on what it should feel or look
like form-wise when maintaining 5k pace? Do we increase our cadence
or stride? My 5k pace based on EE is somewhere between 6:15 and
6:45. Problem is holding anything faster than a 7 minute mile and
my form goes to shit. I become Phoebe from friends. Am I better off
staying at a 7 minute mile pace? Thanks!
4. I am struggling right now-- Just when I think I have things
under control, my post-tib tendonitis acts up again. I had wanted
to get into the full maintain schedule for July, and was possibly
looking forward to another marathon in late fall- but now I'm not
sure. Sometimes I think I'm just trying too hard, or expecting too
much. I'm hoping that a relaxing week in Florida with my mom will
help me reset. Not sure what my question is, but I'm just wondering
if maybe I even need a break from Maintain while my body figures
out what's going on.
5. Sarah asked me to post a question on breath! How to breathe
during hard effort is at the top of the most valuable things I’ve
learned from MK. It took a long time for it to click. I had
listened to the AMR podcast many months before the hard effort runs
started and understood the concept but not the application. Then I
asked a question one day about feeling almost like I was having a
panic attack when running at 5K pace and MK said, that’s when you
shorten your breath cadence. And since then everything has
changed!
6. I have a Recovery R8 Roller (hurt so good). What is your
opinion, thoughts, suggestions, and/or recommendations for using
it?
7. I’ll be doing my very first marathon this December at CIM. As
you probably know I’ve been training with you since early 2016. I’m
wondering if a 10 week build up to a marathon is going to be enough
build up for me since it will be my first. Thanks!