Running Life: A Fitness Protection Production
130 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 34 ratingsCoach MK (Fleming) is the founder of Fitness Protection, LLC. She is a run coach not life coach, but we're never really talking about the running! She isn't afraid to call out, and push back against, Diet Culture and its impact on her runners. She is committed to ensuring that no runner discounts their own badassery while combatting fatphobia and sizeism in the fitness industry.
This podcast is geared towards every runner who won’t lose their home or health insurance if they show up to the corral with a hangover (though we do not advise it!). Whether you are a marathoner or a hobbyjogger, you will find something to enjoy when the coaches start talking as we run through this marathon of life, together.
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Episodes
#AskAway with Coach MK and Coach Sarah! | Running by Heart Rate Questions Answered
September 23, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour - 79 MBRunner, Interrupted is ready to launch! Click here to be added to the beta testing list! Congratulations to Maintain participant Tamara Paton, who shall heretofore be referred to as "IronTam" for finishing the Barrelman Half Ironman today! ReBuild 1. So how many more weeks is Uranus in retrograde? Asking for a friend. ;) More life happening in September than expected and I haven’t run more than twice this month, and haven’t been keeping up with walking much in the last wee...
Brainfire of the Vanities: Code Word "Health"
September 20, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 83.2 MB“Culture isn’t a costume” has been a guiding theme for parents in assisting their kids in Halloween/school plays/etc. We know we don’t need to make our skin darker to exude the essence of Moana or Harriet Tubman or Oprah or Sonia Sotomayor or Flojo so we are SHOCKED when people do. For the privileged, race, in so many ways, is easier to navigate than fatness conversationally, because the boundaries are more culturally accepted to be obvious to all; if you don't see how blackface is offensive...
#AskAway with Coach MK and Coach Sarah! | Heart Rate Running Questions Answered
September 17, 2019 03:08 - 49 minutes - 49.9 MB#AskAway with Coach MK and Coach Sarah is here! This week we wrestle with technology (Coach MK is still in the AirBnb with a great hot tub and terrible internet) while answering questions about The Struggle Bus, Predatory Bullsh*t disguised as "self-help", and Fall Marathon Strategies! Coach MK and Coach Sarah livestream question and answer sessions each week on the Fitness Protection Program Facebook Page, The Fitness Protection Program YouTube Channel, and Twitch, simultaneously. Joi...
Bonus Episode: Amy Schools Us on Fatphobia
September 16, 2019 11:00 - 22 minutes - 28 MBHi, this is Coach Sarah. As you’ve probably seen if you follow me and Coach MK on Facebook, we are paying close attention to the way people are reacting to the movie Brittany Runs A Marathon. I myself saw the trailer and immediately knew that I personally did not want to see the movie, because I got a strong whiff of marathon training equals weight loss equals yay, and I wanted nothing to do with it. But the positive attention it’s gotten - among other things, a 90% fresh rating on Rotten To...
The Overlooked Wins: A Walk Through Training Peaks
September 12, 2019 20:10 - 1 hour - 76 MBIntroductory Note Hi, Coach Sarah here. A few notes about today’s podcast. If you have always wanted to see what Coach MK tends to look at in Training Peaks for clients she has coached one-on-one, we highly recommend you watch this episode as a webinar, and it is available in that format on our YouTube channel (you can find a link to it on our blog at www.coachedandloved.com/blog, and in the show notes to this episode). You’ll likely find the visuals helpful, especially if you specifically...
#AskAway with Coach MK and Coach Sarah! | Running Questions Answered
September 10, 2019 16:24 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBThis week the coaches tackle questions about Crohn's, Fatigue and associated Neuropathy, Critical Power and hilly race prep and end on the connection between nutrition and heavy legs. Coach MK and Coach Sarah livestream question and answer 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; anyone may ask follow-up questions during the live bro...
ReBuild: A Return to Running Program for Experienced Runners
September 07, 2019 02:05 - 1 hour - 93 MBEverything is easy when you are fit. You get to ask yourself which workouts you WANT to do, you can run with anyone you want to, join any run club whose schedules works with yours, you can work with any coach you want; you don't know how good you have it until your training is derailed by life or injury for a long period and you are then faced with rebuilding your fitness...alone. The times you need support and a coach the most are the times you are least able to find either, a gap we hope t...
#AskAway with Coach MK | Answers to Heart Rate Training Questions
September 02, 2019 16:47 - 40 minutes - 45.2 MBWith Coach Sarah FIRMLY enjoying the final hours of her vacation, Coach MK flies solo in a short-but-worth it episode that ends with a sweet question from a passerby on Twitch. Topics this week include: the purpose of the long run, Concerta and heart rate, smart watches and confusing directions, and how to ask a girl out (I KNOW, RIGHT?). It's never about the running, and the magic is always in the meandering. (Re)Build 1. I have been in re-build since the program started. I con...
The Privilege of Running By Feel; aka, "Why the EAT Exists"
August 29, 2019 21:12 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBGet ready for a DEEP discussion of the EAT (the Enhanced Anaerobic Threshold workout). We’re not really talking about the running this time, and we are DEFINITELY not talking about the math, either. We hope this podcast will clarify what the Enhanced Anaerobic Threshold workout REALLY Says About You and Your Race. We have included a downloadable PDF as bonus content here in the shownotes, explaining the EAT. Click here to download it: http://bit.ly/2ZrbNPE Click here to sign up f...
#AskAway with Coach MK! | Heart Rate Running Questions, Answered.
August 26, 2019 00:27 - 44 minutes - 39.8 MBWith Coach Sarah still on vacation, Coach MK flies solo in a powerful episode that will start your week off RIGHT (despite Uranus in retrograde)! This week's questions include the physiological benefits of strides or accelerators, needing to push heart rate higher, sickled feet and what to do, moving the long run around, the deeper meaning of the EAT, and Coach MK hits her inbox to respond to a question about potential. This short-but-sweet episode is one you will NOT want to miss! ReB...
Brainfire of the Vanities: The Biggest Loser and its Lasting Fatphobic Impact
August 23, 2019 03:28 - 1 hour - 74 MBThe biggest loser is coming back. AND COACH MK IS FLAMING MAD. She has said on multiple occasions that The Biggest Loser had a huge, measurable impact on our society before it was finally cancelled in 2016. It was not a thing to train for a marathon in order to lose weight before that flaming pile of garbage blew smoke into 8 million homes each week for a totally unhealthy dose of fatphobia, fat-shaming and abuse thinly disguised as 'tough love'. Onscreen, the show was terrible. We kne...
#AskAway with Coach MK! | Running Questions, Answered.
August 19, 2019 04:03 - 53 minutes - 53.3 MBREBUILD 1. How much of Avocado toast be a warm up/ cool down? What do you envision a warm-up and cooldown looking like? 2. I would love to get to where I can do a “real” push-up, up on toes, flat on the ground. Right now I’m best at a more vertical position, hands at counter or chair/sofa height. Is the best way to work on it just to do it a lot, like a minute a day at wherever I’m at a few days a week? Or resurrect SSSC1 for a few weeks? I would also love to do an unassisted pull-up a...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Cheating (at Running) | Part 2: The Rules We Follow
August 15, 2019 18:37 - 55 minutes - 56.3 MBSarah tells us about implementing a sticker chart for her toddler, and wonders if this system is creating the correct incentives or teaching a different lesson entirely. Coach MK describes the systems she has created to work with her ADHD and how those systems often run counter to popular systems of organization. “You must make THIS work,” would be a bad rule for her and make her feel like a failure; “you must recognize failure, identify the failure point, and create a system that WORKS...sw...
#AskAway with Coach MK and Coach Sarah | Running Questions, Answered
August 12, 2019 20:15 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBWe start with light chatter about Sarah's trip to Maine and Coach MK's intense love of Coach Sarah's #wideeyedworkface, before encouraging folks to hear the new podcast: A Full Tube of Toothpaste. THANK YOU KAREN SCHLUETER! OMG! SOMEONE LISTENS TO MEEE! After Coach MK did her usual radio-style introduction, we PLANNED to talk about the #RaceDayTakeAway challenge...but our connection cut out during the stream and though we recovered, most of the audio was not. Short version: All of the an...
A Full Tube of Toothpaste | Coach's Perspective on a Runner’s Potential
August 08, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBClick here to receive our weekly content roundup, and download a PDF of Coach MK's Night Before Checklist to ensure your running habit sticks! http://bit.ly/2M3b1AX We go from the panopticon (yes, Coach Sarah is going to Harvard at us for a minute, hang on) to parental advisories and Purple Rain to MK’s amazing skin care routine and the positive vibes it creates in her life. But what Sarah really wants to know (apart from which fingers MK uses to apply her Vitamin C serum) is how MK is...
#AskAway with Coach MK and Coach Sarah | Running Questions, Answered
August 05, 2019 18:00 - 51 minutes - 50.5 MBCoach MK and Coach Sarah livestream a weekly QA session for their runners on The Fitness Protection Facebook page and Twitch. Follow the page and join the fun! This week we have excellent questions about tapers, migraines, testing, and the upcoming strength beta! Subscribe to our NEW weekly newsletter and you can download a pdf of Coach MK's Nightly Checklist: The Little Habits that Make a Running Habit Happen! http://bit.ly/2M3b1AX Maintain 1. Can you pretty please discuss and...
Brainfire of the Vanities: A Woman’s Work | Running, Diets, and Beyoncé
August 03, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBYesterday, hell broke loose when Beyoncé released an advertisement showing us more of the work she did to get ready for her EPIC Coachella performance, forever preserved in a Netflix special called Homecoming. Beyoncé's preparation began shortly after giving birth to twins, so the story of returning to post-partum performance-level readiness in 8 months is part of what made her performance so epic. The response to the ad on Coach MK's social media feeds (and even the local news!) was...
#AskAway with Coach MK and Coach Sarah | Running Questions, Answered
July 29, 2019 01:06 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBCoach MK and Coach Sarah livestream a weekly QA session for their runners on The Fitness Protection Facebook page and Twitch. Follow the page and join the fun! MAINTAIN So I am not sure if this is more a podcast question or an ATC question or just random thoughts. But I am thinking a lot lately about being socialized not to take up mental, emotional, and physical space. I only did one year of organized sports as a kid and it was soccer. I was in 1st or 2nd grade and small, playing wi...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Cheating (at Running)
July 26, 2019 04:35 - 1 hour - 77.5 MBLast week we touched on the notion of ambition: how a little can encourage good work but too much can lead to bad choices. This week, we take a critical look at lying and cheating by examining the forces (systems, pressures, incentives) that would lead a person to cheat in sport at both the professional and hobbyjogger (aka Boston Qualifying/not-paid-to-be-here) level, and wonder if that's much different from a time little Coach Sarah lied to her parents about swim practice. To be clear, w...
#AskAway with Coach MK and Coach Sarah | Running Questions Answered
July 22, 2019 03:06 - 51 minutes - 55 MBThe Coaches catch up quickly before telling the world how INCREDIBLE Julie Patno Winkler's Vermont 100 performance was over the weekend. Quick reminder about the upcoming Strength Beta opening on Sept 1 (email [email protected] if you want to join) then we dive into questions around the 20 minute mark. Note: at the time of the recording, Coach MK had not yet seen Julie's Training Peaks data. Once she did, she absolutely lost her mind. If you would like to see what she saw, click her...
Happy Birthday Dear Susan | Running Towards 50
July 19, 2019 03:30 - 1 hour - 95.9 MBLast year, Susan DiLeo hit Coach MK with an idea: she wanted to run 50 miles before midnight on her 50th birthday. The catch? She wanted to run them on a 1-mile paved loop around the parking lot at the New Jersey State Fairgrounds. Read the shownotes to Coach MK's fiery intro here! In this episode, Susan will tell you how she sold Coach MK and no less than 15 other women on this idea, plus you’ll hear from two other badasses who fell under Susan’s spell: Melissa Yacuzzo and Tamara Paton...
#AskAway With Coach MK! 7/14/19 | Running 🏃🏽♀️ Life
July 16, 2019 03:30 - 49 minutes - 46.5 MBCoach MK and Coach Sarah livestream question and answer sessions for their runners 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. (Re)Build Hey Coach MK & The Amazing Coach Sarah (sorry I accidentally submitted a doc without completing the question): Any tips on form for “runner’...
Brainfire of the Vanities: from #CoolGirl to #CoachSarah | Running Through It, Together
July 11, 2019 20:44 - 1 hour - 46.9 MBCoach MK and Coach Sarah talk in tangents (#sorrynotsorry!) about The Little Mermaid, pseudointellectualism, Taylor Swift, body positivity, and Coach Sarah’s #coolgirl days in college to highlight one key takeaway: The space between where you are and where you want to be is exciting. That is, unless you are a twentysomething whose name rhymes with "Pristen" https://bit.ly/2RZVUsb Go check out Mr. Coach Sarah's blog! Topics Covered Twitter often gets slammed for being a place ...
#AskAway with Coach MK and Coach Sarah! 7/07/19 | Running Questions Answered
July 10, 2019 02:12 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBCoach MK and Coach Sarah livestream question and answer 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. Messenger Hi coach- it’s in a video I’m sure but I can’t find the answer to this question. What’s the definition of the lanes in rebuild? I’ve been winging it And want...
#AskAway with Coach Sarah; 6/30/19 | Running Questions Answered
July 01, 2019 21:53 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBVisit Our Website! 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. (ReBuild) Questions 1. I'm starting Maintain this month: Yay! I'm excited to start after a month of Rebuild. My question is: what is the difference between AR and Flo...
Brainfire of the Vanities
June 28, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 98.9 MBA funny story about a bootleg cassette tape from 1994 Russia provides the backdrop to discuss two hot button concepts which have been reduced to trigger words: ‘wellness’ and ‘body image’. The two are intertwined in ways that matter a LOT. Coach MK’s brain has been en fuego since she emerged from a year of chronic pain spent almost entirely in bed and started the long journey back to reclaiming her body as well as her identity. What does a healthy body look like, what does it feel l...
Summer Running: A Love Letter
June 23, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBCoach Sarah guides us through a super-fun chat about the actual challenges of summer running, while reminding us that the complications of summer extend WAY beyond heat. It's never about the running, but when a run doesn't go well, we cannot move beyond the running. We also tie in heaps of wisdom from our runners in Maintain and (Re)Build, who have incredible perspectives on running this time of year! https://www.fitnessprotection.com Show Notes: We don’t like to say “embrace the s...
Mammograms, Pelvic Exams, and Other Scary Topics
June 22, 2019 17:26 - 33 minutes - 46.6 MBCoach MK and Coach Sarah of The Fitness Protection Program sit down to discuss Coach MK's cancer scare and explain why it isn't quite over yet. We all shudder to think how quickly this escalated. MK's symptoms started a long time ago, and health care providers were quick to dismiss her concerns as vanity ("aging is omg so HARD amirite?"). Ovarian cancer is NOT in fact a silent killer, it looks a lot like menopause and we cannot afford to dismiss anything related to hormones. Ladybusines...
#AskAway with Coach MK and Coach Sarah; 6/16/19 | Running Questions Answered
June 22, 2019 16:51 - 1 hour - 99.2 MBVisit Our Website! 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 runnin...
#AskAway with Coach MK and Coach Sarah; 6/9/19 | Running Questions Answered
June 21, 2019 23:48 - 1 hour - 155 MBCoach MK and Coach Sarah stream live Q&A sessions each week on the Fitness Protection Program Facebook Page, The FPP 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. This week, we remind everyone that fall racing prep starts NOW: the 10-week marathon document would initiate on Aug 12 for an Oct 17th race; and the two month lead-in period to build the base required to coast on...