In this episode of the Women’s Running Lab podcast, host Alison introduces a “runner’s hierarchy of needs,” modeled after Maslow’s pyramid, to explain how athletes can progress toward their full potential. She emphasizes that true success begins with a self-care version of base training for runners—focusing on consistency, recovery, sleep, fueling, and nutrition—before layering in smart volume management, keeping easy runs truly easy, and gradually adding purposeful pacing and strength traini...
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In this episode of the Women’s Running Lab podcast, host Alison introduces a “runner’s hierarchy of needs,” modeled after Maslow’s pyramid, to explain how athletes can progress toward their full potential. She emphasizes that true success begins with a self-care version of base training for runners—focusing on consistency, recovery, sleep, fueling, and nutrition—before layering in smart volume management, keeping easy runs truly easy, and gradually adding purposeful pacing and strength traini...
E34 - Optimize Your Runs and Prevent Injury with Strength and Consistency
The Women's Running Lab
25 minutes
6 months ago
E34 - Optimize Your Runs and Prevent Injury with Strength and Consistency
In this episode, Alison introduces the concept of understanding running from both a physiological and practical perspective, using her own recent personal experiences as a foundation. She shares a story about a painful injury she sustained while commemorating her late daughter’s birthday, which kept her from running and pushed her back into therapy. This experience led her to reflect on how runners often respond to stress or setbacks by overdoing it—leaning into productivity rather than rest....
The Women's Running Lab
In this episode of the Women’s Running Lab podcast, host Alison introduces a “runner’s hierarchy of needs,” modeled after Maslow’s pyramid, to explain how athletes can progress toward their full potential. She emphasizes that true success begins with a self-care version of base training for runners—focusing on consistency, recovery, sleep, fueling, and nutrition—before layering in smart volume management, keeping easy runs truly easy, and gradually adding purposeful pacing and strength traini...
