Five years after Lesley and Simon appeared on this podcast to talk about how to set and achieve athletic goals, Lesley just won a BAFTA for screenwriting. So let’s listen again to this 2018 conversation for clues about how to live a brave life.
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Will a plant-based diet help you become a better athlete? Is it as simple as just eating plants, or is there more to doing it right?
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What’s the most efficient way to exercise for fitness and health? And what’s the most effective? Turns out there’s a single answer to both questions: 4-second all-out intervals.
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In this episode, I share a personal coaching session that I conducted with Ian Lawton, host of the Workshed Podcast.
Ian has lost around 150 pounds and turned himself into marathoner (3 marathons in December, 2019). And he’s training for his first ultra marathon in April 2020.
The problem is, he’s been sneaking in the vegan junk food, and his weight has plateaued and started creeping back up.
As a former fat guy, he’s terrified of slipping back to where he was.
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Kelly McGonigal is one of my favorite science/personal-development/psychology teachers and writers. And in a testament to her versatility and breadth of interests, her print books are in three different sections of my library: habits and behavioral science (The Willpower Instinct); stress (The Upside of Stress); and exercise/movement (The Joy of Movement, her latest work.) Her audio course, The Science of Self-Compassion, is both a scientific tour de force and a big-hearted hug from a caring friend.
She manages a rare writerly and scholarly trick: to adhere to the evidence while letting her own humanity flow through every page.
Which is just to say, I had to deal with major Fanboy vibes when I connected with her via Skype.
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Danny and Katherine Dreyer are the co-authors of three of the most valuable books ever on human bipedal locomotion: Chi Running, Chi Walking, and Chi Marathon.
The promise of their methodology is that you can walk or run a lot farther and faster, without pain or injury.
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This week’s episode is an accident.
I interviewed Elizabeth Bell in order to record a testimonial for WellStart Health, and ended up having a conversation so compelling and instructive and inspiring that I decided – with Elizabeth’s blessing – to share the whole thing.
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Josh LaJaunie returns to the podcast for a fifth (?) time, for a conversation about our relationship with nature.
We talk about the beauty and grandeur of nature, and the ways human beings benefit and grow from being exposed to that loveliness.
And also about nature’s dangerous and scary and yucky and itchy and hot and humid and freezing and soaking and uncomfortable aspects – and how we need those experiences in equal measure with the pleasurable ones.
Our sport, ultrarunning, is an invitation to both faces of nature. To the beauty and grandeur, and to the hassle and discomfort. To the nurturing and the threatening.
We also explore the lessons nature holds for us; in trees and eddies, in cycles of live and death, growth and service.
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My buddy Josh LaJaunie returns the to podcast for his fourth? fifth? appearance. We’ve been busy building WellStart Health, dealing with logistics and curriculum and business development and whatnot, so we were both hungry for a slow, meandering, purposeless, deep conversation. The kind friends have, with no agenda, except with thousands of people listening in.
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