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Will (00:00.418)
What's up friend. Welcome back to another episode of the unstoppable you podcast where we speed run tips, tricks, and techniques to improve your life. It's your host coach will. And when I say speed run today, I mean, that's kind of what we're talking about, except it's not speed running is the tip. It's actually slow running is the tip today. Today we're talking about running. Okay. And if you are on the other side of this device and you're like, bro, I hate running with a passion. Like why would I run?
for fun when it's like most sports or most people's consequences. That makes a lot of sense. A lot of people on the other side of this device right now don't know about kind of my past in sports. I played pretty much every sport under the sun growing up, but I actually ended up going to a division one college to run track and cross country. And so running is like near and dear to my heart. With that said, the last four,
years. I'm not talking about weeks. I'm not talking about days. I'm not talking about months. I'm talking about years. The last four years, I've been extremely, how do I want to say this? I'm not lazy because I don't think anyone is lazy, but I have had a really bad habit of laziness with my fitness over the past four years. And honestly, I feel like a lot of it comes down to the fact that I feel like I need to be perfect when I go out for a run.
Right. And you might feel the same way too, whether it's about running, whether it's about working out, whether it's about doing like a, a YouTube, you know, at home workout. think so often what holds us back from exercising is perfectionism. feel like we so often it's like, if I'm going to go for a run, I need to go for a run for eight miles. need to run seven minute miles. need to run 10 minutes, whatever it is that's overwhelming or should say, um, you know, whatever it is that is your goal. A lot of the times it's like a,
Yo, perfect-
Will (01:58.156)
whatever it is that is your goal. A lot of the times it's like a perfect goal, like an ideal situation. And those ideal situations hold us back from actually starting. Perfectionism is the biggest thief to actually starting, Perfectionism leads to procrastination. And so I'm just going to put you on something that I have found extremely helpful as a, you know, X division one cross country runner and track runner.
And that is run walking. It sounds crazy for me to say this. Like if you would have told me, you know, four years ago that I would eventually be talking and doing run walks, I would have said, no, that's BS. There's no way I'm a runner. Like that's just what I, that's what I do. But run walking has been such a game changer for me over the past like three or four weeks. Again, I have been super inconsistent with running.
And reason I'm talking about this in the first place, y'all like, I don't need to mansplain or yap on about all the different benefits of moving your body. You guys know that you feel better when you move your body. You know that when you go for a walk, you go for a run, you do some, at home workout, you go to the gym, you know, whatever it is, you feel better. Okay. I don't need to bring the science into this. I could in a different episode if y'all want me to, but like,
Every time you do that stuff, dopamine, serotonin, all of the things really improve. It improves your focus, confidence, motivation, all of it. And so what my main goal of this podcast is, is to help you to move, is to help you to get outside, whether it is, you know, cold, whether it's rainy, whatever, it's to help you get outside and lower the bar of success. So reduce the amount of perfectionism that we feel
and just be okay with instead of going for a run. How about I run a little bit and then walk a little bit and then run a little bit and then walk a little bit. Not because I need to have this perfect workout, but just because I want to move my body movement doesn't have to be perfect in order for it to be powerful. What happens is
Will (04:22.254)
So run walking is exactly like what, so run walking is exactly what it sounds like. You walk and then you run and then you walk again and then you run again and you just do it, whatever run. So run walking is exactly what it sounds like. Run walking is exactly what it sounds like. You walk and then you run, then you walk again and then you run again. There is little pressure. There's no pace goals. There's no distance goals.
There's no judgment on yourself. And because there is none of that stuff, you can maybe enjoy it a little bit more. And you definitely have more of a likelihood of actually getting out and doing the dang thing in the first place. It really helps me in the last couple of weeks with consistency. think consistency when you're doing anything beats intensity a hundred percent of the time. Like it's better to run, walk three times or four times per week.
than to do like one really hard, long run and one long, hard workout. And then not want to work out again for the next week. It's like, I'll take the person that's doing three times, four times, really easy workouts, still getting their body moving heart rate up over the one that's you know, going, you know, crazy hard for, you know, once a week or once every two weeks. So here's what I want you to try. If you're listening to this on a Friday, first off, happy Friday, it's going to be the best weekend ever. my gosh, y'all.
go for like one run walk for 30 minutes. And if you don't even want to go for 30 minutes, just like go outside and just run when you feel like it and walk when you feel like it. All right. Now in order to like do this and make it feel good, like you probably should go at least like 10 minutes, but then, you know, I'd say that's like after 10 minutes, let's say do whatever feels good. If you're listening to this on a Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday, y'all it's going to be the greatest week ever. Okay.
I'm not just faking positivity here. I really believe like we can make it the best week. And one way that we get to do that is to do a little run, walk in here and there. All right. So run for three minutes, walk for five minutes, run for three minutes, walk for five minutes, something that you can kind of build up to. This is kind of the goal that I have. and again, I can run for 30 minutes straight, but it's really just, sometimes I don't feel like it. And sometimes I just don't.
Will (06:47.502)
like it holds me back when I think about, you know, having to run for 30 minutes straight, I don't end up doing it in the first place. And so I just get out the side and I run for seven minutes and I walk for three minutes and I do that three times. So whatever kind of makeup in terms of times, you know, maybe it's two minutes, on and five minutes off. Maybe it's one minute on and 10 minutes off. It's better than nothing. So do whatever you need to do to get out the door and
Do your best to really enjoy it. Listen to a nice podcast. Maybe you're listening to this podcast on a run walk. That would be kind of like inception. The goal is not to be perfect. Y'all. The goal is to just show up and run walking can really help you get there. If you liked this episode and you feel like you're actually going to apply this stuff. mean, knowledge is one thing. Application is another thing. So be the type of person that actually applies what the heck they're learning. If you apply it you like it, shoot me a message on at
unstoppable you coaching on IG. I love to hear how it goes. I hope you guys have the best day ever. Thanks again for tuning in and enjoy your run walk-in. mean, do the dang thing.