#034: Run Faster and Healthier: Stop Fighting Your Body and Learn How to Work With It Naturally with Jae Gruenke
Description
Notes:
2:29 - Jae’s background and how she went from hating running to loving it
5:27 - what the feldenkrais method is
11:29 - how changes in running and movement affect the brain
19:32 - how do we work through the challenges in life that prevent us from moving or running
30:12 - how your upper body can effect your lower body
36:02 - foam rollers… should you use them?
38:44 - what data should you track when you are running to optimize your health
45:44 - what other things you can do between runs
49:49 - can running make you fat and thoughts on fasted runs
59:50 - what shows to wear when you run
Links:
- the balanced runner system
- Feldenkrais Method
- the alexander technique
- ‘Born to Run’ - the book by Christopher McDougall
- animal that becomes a plant based on movement
- standing desk that is a hamster wheel
- the wave tool
- why running on treadmills all the time isn’t the best
- numi chocolate pu erh tea
- bulletproof coffee
- Xero shoes
- FiveFinger vibram shoes
- naboso insoles
- BAER shoes
- softstar shoes
- vivobarefoot
- the mind your running challenge
- the balanced runners system online camp
Quotes:
6:18 - “Your brains exist to organize movement and everything else that a brain does is built on top of that fundamental function.”
7:44 - “Running is a part of our biological inheritance.”
16:37 : - “The real end of it all is when you get sent to school and you have to sit at a desk all day.”
31:25- “Wherever you fight yourself you waste a tremendous amount of energy, you create stress and you setup potential for injuries.”
42:33 “We need to vary the stresses on our body… the very worst thing you can do is run always on a treadmill listening to an audio book or watching something.”
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