For me in races, when I am in the pain cave and just want to stop running and start walking, what helped me was just focusing on the sound of my steps and mentally counting the rhythm in my head and accepting the pain
Focusing on running “smooth” has been crucial for me these last few months. I’ve found that naturally the running cues of good arm carriage, foot strike pattern, knee drive etc have come when concentrating less on forcing the pace and more on trying to feel as smooth as possible. Top video Brock! 👏🏻
Something that has been a mantra of mine, even in workouts is to trust what your body can do from the start to end on a mileage day, or even a workout I know because in my mind like (ok let’s start turning the gears at this rep). It’s made a huge difference for me becoming a distance runner in college.
Thank you for sharing about the psychological part because I have been running over a year and it happens to me when I'm scared of running longer distances than I used to! Keep making videos! You are the best!
You gave the advice in a previous video to just do a self assessment during a run and just ask, “how bad do I actually hurt right now?” Every time I’ve done that while running a time trial, I always calm down and say, “oh okay, this doesn’t really hurt that bad. I can continue at this pace.”
That's honestly one of the best pieces of running advice I've ever heard. I sometimes forget to apply it, and then I remember it and can save a workout that's going south so quickly. I think I heard it from Brian Barazza. He's got some real running wisdom that he's picked up over the years
Same here. I’ll close my eyes for a sec, and go mentally through my feet, legs, lungs, etc and realize that none of them really hurt. Gives me some extra juice to keep pushing
I also run collegiate XC/TF. The thing I find interesting about your videos is the fact that I see so many similarities in the way we think and train but also differences in the way we think and train. Some things that work for you never quite worked for me. The opposite is also true; some things that have not worked for you work great for me. It is thought provoking. That’s the real take away for me. Comparison of our training theory’s pushes me to try and figure out how to do better for myself and my team. Thought you’d find that to be food for thought.
@@thomascroshaw3711 love to hear that! That’s how it always goes. Some things work for you and others don’t. My old coach used to always make us take Meyer’s Briggs tests before the season so he could coach us based on our predispositions. Just goes to prove that everyone is different and responds to training and philosophies in different ways.
My personal favorite way to stay relaxed in a race situation is think about and trust my training leading to that point, and understand that I didn’t work that hard to give in during the race
Your videos always leave me with such a positive mindset, and is currently making me so stoked to run again in January 🔥 After being injured for over half the year, I’ve enjoyed every run I’ve gotten to go on. I always either find myself going out with a positive mindset, set on my goals, or just being grateful for actually being out there when it gets hard. If I’m not motivated I always just try to stay mindless and focus, not thinking about how hard the effort is, but doing it regardless. Thanks as always Brock. 👏Can’t wait to get the hoodie sometime in the new year when the holiday shipping times comes round to it! 😁
I want to win a Half Marathon best time ever was 1h 02min and I'm pushing harder and harder to get there I'm already pushing to 4:50 per km easily and it's only getting better since I run on trails. Tonight I'll do a run on the pavement and see how much I could push
such an awesome video. wondering if you or anyone can help me with this! I’m about a year into running now and just hit a milestone of running 6 miles. one thing i’m confused on though is how I can run with a low HR. if I run for fun, I can go at a 9:30/10 min per mile pace but my HR hits the 170s. if i do zone 2 training, i’m stuck running 13 min miles. Do i just have to do this to get faster with a low HR, are there other ways I can improve? any help would be so appreciated i’m so lost figuring this out!
So it varies from person to person. In my personal experience, when I started running about 12 years ago, I didn’t look at heart rate and didn’t even have a way to look at heart rate. I would just go out and run without thinking about it. A couple years into my running journey, I started doing 2-3 workouts per week and my fitness increased exponentially and I was able to make huge strides. By running a few higher intensity days each week, my heart rate on my easy days dropped a good bit and I was able to build fitness that way. So I’d recommend you start incorporating some more interval workouts into your training to bump up your fitness and bring your pace down on those easy days into a good zone. Also when you’re running hard on workout days, your body will be forced to run the right effort the next day when you’re doing an easy/recovery run. Some examples of workouts you could try are 3x1 mile repeats with 90 second rest between each and a 1 mile warmup and 1 mile cooldown. Another one you could do are “Yasso 800s” which is where you do 800 meters on at a fast pace and 800 meters off a slower pace. You can do this for 3 miles straight. You could also try to do tempo runs where you’re doing a 1 mile warmup, 2-3 miles at tempo pace, and a 1 mile cooldown. All these workouts will give you bumps in fitness. I’d suggest you don’t worry too much about being in the right zone as you worry about listening to your body. If your body is telling you to run slower, run slower. If it’s telling you to run faster, run faster. Hope this helps!
@@TheBrockKelly WOW! brock, you are simply the best!!! wasn’t sure if I’d get a response, thank you so much for not only taking the time but also giving such an in-depth answer. this is so helpful, i’ve been struggling to find the right advice and this is exactly what I needed to hear. I love the idea of just listening to your body and just doing what’s best in the moment. it’s also nice to hear you didn’t always worry about heart rate. I’m definitely going to implement these workouts! thanks for giving some examples too that I can use!!! So excited to see what you do next, good luck this season!
Hey Brock, this just popped up on my recommended. Currently working towards running an 18 min 3 mile for my military physical fitness test. Not much of a runner. Cardio is pretty awful at the moment. Struggle to run 3 consecutive miles even. Any tips? Don't know how you mfers bang out 10 miles at 5:30 pace - insane! Motivating though.
Alright, so there's a lot I could say here, but running is really about building a consistent training plan and progressive overload. What you're trying to do is slowly build up mileage each week by about 10% which will increase your fitness. As your fitness increases, you can benchmark it every 1-2 weeks by running a 3 mile time trial. There's also other workouts you can do like mile intervals or something along those lines that will start to adapt your body to the pace. So this would be something like 3-4x1 mile at goal 3 mile pace with 2 minute standing rest in between.
@ What do you eat before a morning run? Would you highly recommend that supplement powder you take? Running on a treadmill alright? Tips for breathing? In nose out mouth ideal? Tips for getting rid of stitches in your side? Swear by stretching / warming up / cool down? Do you run 7 days a week? Thanks in advance. You’re a beast
@@MikeOxaflahpin good place to start for fuel would be a banana or some peanut butter toast. I also drink coffee before most runs for the caffeine boost. G1M sport is a good way to fill up glycogen stores and get some electrolytes, but it can also be done by eating a banana and sprinkling some pink salt on your dinner the night before. For breathing, I’m a big mouth breather. I can hardly breathe at all through my nose because I have a deviated septum, so mouth is really the only option. Try to control your breathing and more specifically control your exhales. This will drop your heart rate down. Side stitches are usually a sign of poor hydration or poor fueling. Avoid heavier foods before you run and try to make sure you’re consuming enough water before. If you’re doing a hard session, do a longer warmup with some form drills and tempo work beforehand to get the body ready. If you’re running easy, just rawdog it. I run 6 days a week and find I can build fitness well. I think there was a study that showed the difference in outcome of runners that run 6 days vs those that run 7 is practically undetectable if you’re training at the right intensity. But as those days decrease per week past 6, your potential exponentially decreases as well
@@danielmedrano1762 25g of coffee and 360g of water: 60 gram bloom for the first pour and then 3 100g pours. Let the coffee go all the way through with each pour.
Love the focus on mentality here, I think the mental side plays a huge role in hitting those pace goals. We’ve been building an app that helps athletes prepare mentally through guided visualizations and breathing exercises. Would be cool to connect and maybe explore a collab-mind if I send you an email?
The “I’ve been in this pain cave before” feeling is what it’s all about!
Agreed! That feeling is the reason you're there and sometimes it's easy to forget that in the heat of the moment.
my favorite way to stay relaxed during the workout is "run the mile you are in"
That phrase has saved me in so many workouts
what exactly do you mean
Thanks for consistently dropping bangers. They always make me fired up to take accountability and dig deep when it hurts.
I absolutely love your content man, definitely the most enjoyable running content out there. Keep up the great work.
For me in races, when I am in the pain cave and just want to stop running and start walking, what helped me was just focusing on the sound of my steps and mentally counting the rhythm in my head and accepting the pain
Focusing on running “smooth” has been crucial for me these last few months. I’ve found that naturally the running cues of good arm carriage, foot strike pattern, knee drive etc have come when concentrating less on forcing the pace and more on trying to feel as smooth as possible. Top video Brock! 👏🏻
Oh yeah! This is definitely a real thing. If you can feel smooth, you'll be smooth. That's the trick
Something that has been a mantra of mine, even in workouts is to trust what your body can do from the start to end on a mileage day, or even a workout I know because in my mind like (ok let’s start turning the gears at this rep). It’s made a huge difference for me becoming a distance runner in college.
Thank you for sharing about the psychological part because I have been running over a year and it happens to me when I'm scared of running longer distances than I used to! Keep making videos! You are the best!
Homie could've run a 71 low half on his own if he went another 2.2 miles at the same pace lol. What a beast!
Just found your video. Training for a 100 mile race now and the advice was fire.
Good luck running 🏃♀️ 100 miles. It will take about 20 some hours
Waiting 3 months for a new video
3 videos in one week????
Blessings in a great Christmas break!
Saw on strava the legend posted a vid! Great video Brock!
You gave the advice in a previous video to just do a self assessment during a run and just ask, “how bad do I actually hurt right now?”
Every time I’ve done that while running a time trial, I always calm down and say, “oh okay, this doesn’t really hurt that bad. I can continue at this pace.”
That's honestly one of the best pieces of running advice I've ever heard. I sometimes forget to apply it, and then I remember it and can save a workout that's going south so quickly. I think I heard it from Brian Barazza. He's got some real running wisdom that he's picked up over the years
Same here. I’ll close my eyes for a sec, and go mentally through my feet, legs, lungs, etc and realize that none of them really hurt. Gives me some extra juice to keep pushing
I also run collegiate XC/TF. The thing I find interesting about your videos is the fact that I see so many similarities in the way we think and train but also differences in the way we think and train. Some things that work for you never quite worked for me. The opposite is also true; some things that have not worked for you work great for me. It is thought provoking. That’s the real take away for me. Comparison of our training theory’s pushes me to try and figure out how to do better for myself and my team. Thought you’d find that to be food for thought.
@@thomascroshaw3711 love to hear that! That’s how it always goes. Some things work for you and others don’t. My old coach used to always make us take Meyer’s Briggs tests before the season so he could coach us based on our predispositions. Just goes to prove that everyone is different and responds to training and philosophies in different ways.
My personal favorite way to stay relaxed in a race situation is think about and trust my training leading to that point, and understand that I didn’t work that hard to give in during the race
Your videos always leave me with such a positive mindset, and is currently making me so stoked to run again in January 🔥 After being injured for over half the year, I’ve enjoyed every run I’ve gotten to go on. I always either find myself going out with a positive mindset, set on my goals, or just being grateful for actually being out there when it gets hard. If I’m not motivated I always just try to stay mindless and focus, not thinking about how hard the effort is, but doing it regardless.
Thanks as always Brock. 👏Can’t wait to get the hoodie sometime in the new year when the holiday shipping times comes round to it! 😁
I want to win a Half Marathon best time ever was 1h 02min and I'm pushing harder and harder to get there I'm already pushing to 4:50 per km easily and it's only getting better since I run on trails.
Tonight I'll do a run on the pavement and see how much I could push
He ran a pace of 10.92 miles per hour
@PraveenSrJ01 yeah I know it's insane. I'll work hard and one day I'll get there
@@bowman-v1q best of luck 🤞 on your journey
@@PraveenSrJ01 Thanks mate 🙏🏼
awesome video sir
It is a really good 👍🏾 video
such an awesome video. wondering if you or anyone can help me with this! I’m about a year into running now and just hit a milestone of running 6 miles. one thing i’m confused on though is how I can run with a low HR. if I run for fun, I can go at a 9:30/10 min per mile pace but my HR hits the 170s. if i do zone 2 training, i’m stuck running 13 min miles. Do i just have to do this to get faster with a low HR, are there other ways I can improve? any help would be so appreciated i’m so lost figuring this out!
It takes me a full 11 minutes to run 🏃 a mile and my heart ❤️ rate goes up 🆙 exponentially
So it varies from person to person. In my personal experience, when I started running about 12 years ago, I didn’t look at heart rate and didn’t even have a way to look at heart rate. I would just go out and run without thinking about it. A couple years into my running journey, I started doing 2-3 workouts per week and my fitness increased exponentially and I was able to make huge strides. By running a few higher intensity days each week, my heart rate on my easy days dropped a good bit and I was able to build fitness that way.
So I’d recommend you start incorporating some more interval workouts into your training to bump up your fitness and bring your pace down on those easy days into a good zone. Also when you’re running hard on workout days, your body will be forced to run the right effort the next day when you’re doing an easy/recovery run.
Some examples of workouts you could try are 3x1 mile repeats with 90 second rest between each and a 1 mile warmup and 1 mile cooldown.
Another one you could do are “Yasso 800s” which is where you do 800 meters on at a fast pace and 800 meters off a slower pace. You can do this for 3 miles straight.
You could also try to do tempo runs where you’re doing a 1 mile warmup, 2-3 miles at tempo pace, and a 1 mile cooldown.
All these workouts will give you bumps in fitness. I’d suggest you don’t worry too much about being in the right zone as you worry about listening to your body. If your body is telling you to run slower, run slower. If it’s telling you to run faster, run faster.
Hope this helps!
@@TheBrockKelly WOW! brock, you are simply the best!!! wasn’t sure if I’d get a response, thank you so much for not only taking the time but also giving such an in-depth answer. this is so helpful, i’ve been struggling to find the right advice and this is exactly what I needed to hear. I love the idea of just listening to your body and just doing what’s best in the moment. it’s also nice to hear you didn’t always worry about heart rate. I’m definitely going to implement these workouts! thanks for giving some examples too that I can use!!! So excited to see what you do next, good luck this season!
My heart ♥️ rate goes to about 185 when running outside.
Hey Brock, this just popped up on my recommended. Currently working towards running an 18 min 3 mile for my military physical fitness test. Not much of a runner. Cardio is pretty awful at the moment. Struggle to run 3 consecutive miles even. Any tips? Don't know how you mfers bang out 10 miles at 5:30 pace - insane! Motivating though.
Alright, so there's a lot I could say here, but running is really about building a consistent training plan and progressive overload. What you're trying to do is slowly build up mileage each week by about 10% which will increase your fitness. As your fitness increases, you can benchmark it every 1-2 weeks by running a 3 mile time trial. There's also other workouts you can do like mile intervals or something along those lines that will start to adapt your body to the pace. So this would be something like 3-4x1 mile at goal 3 mile pace with 2 minute standing rest in between.
@ What do you eat before a morning run? Would you highly recommend that supplement powder you take? Running on a treadmill alright? Tips for breathing? In nose out mouth ideal? Tips for getting rid of stitches in your side? Swear by stretching / warming up / cool down? Do you run 7 days a week?
Thanks in advance. You’re a beast
@@MikeOxaflahpin good place to start for fuel would be a banana or some peanut butter toast. I also drink coffee before most runs for the caffeine boost. G1M sport is a good way to fill up glycogen stores and get some electrolytes, but it can also be done by eating a banana and sprinkling some pink salt on your dinner the night before. For breathing, I’m a big mouth breather. I can hardly breathe at all through my nose because I have a deviated septum, so mouth is really the only option. Try to control your breathing and more specifically control your exhales. This will drop your heart rate down. Side stitches are usually a sign of poor hydration or poor fueling. Avoid heavier foods before you run and try to make sure you’re consuming enough water before. If you’re doing a hard session, do a longer warmup with some form drills and tempo work beforehand to get the body ready. If you’re running easy, just rawdog it. I run 6 days a week and find I can build fitness well. I think there was a study that showed the difference in outcome of runners that run 6 days vs those that run 7 is practically undetectable if you’re training at the right intensity. But as those days decrease per week past 6, your potential exponentially decreases as well
@@TheBrockKelly Appreciate you. Just subbed 👍
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What camera do you use to capture most of your content?
@@cartersalinas19 usually the Sony A7III
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Day 34789 of asking for that Chemex recipe
@@danielmedrano1762 25g of coffee and 360g of water: 60 gram bloom for the first pour and then 3 100g pours. Let the coffee go all the way through with each pour.
Yeah 👍🏾
Love the focus on mentality here, I think the mental side plays a huge role in hitting those pace goals. We’ve been building an app that helps athletes prepare mentally through guided visualizations and breathing exercises. Would be cool to connect and maybe explore a collab-mind if I send you an email?