NPR’s Life Kit podcast brings you tips and tricks to start running — with help from Martinus Evans, author of Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run.
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
Maybe being more physically active is one of your New Year’s resolutions, and a popular choice is to start running more. You don’t really need equipment or a gym membership. You just get out, and you go. But running can be intimidating. Maybe you’ve been told you’re not a runner, or you think you don’t have the right body for it.
MARTINUS EVANS: And what I’m here to tell people is that you can run in the body that you have now, and you can do it with just something as simple as running for 15 seconds and walking for a minute. It’s really about just getting your heart rate up.
KELLY: Martinus Evans is a runner and author of the book “Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide For Anyone Who Wants To Run.” NPR Life Kit host Marielle Segarra spoke with Evans to get his best advice for anyone who wants to get into running.
MARIELLE SEGARRA, BYLINE: What are some of the things that people might do to help their mindset as they start on this journey?
EVANS: You know, one of the things that a lot of people struggle with is their inner critic. A lot of people who come to me – it’s Martinus, I’m not a runner, and the voice that’s in my head is telling me I’m not a runner, and I’m just afraid to move forward. So one of the things that I found beneficial is to name that inner critic because most of the time, that inner critic and that inner voice is in your voice. So it’s like you telling you that you don’t deserve to do X, Y and Z. So my inner critic’s name is Otis (ph). And like, my critic’s like, you’re fat. You don’t need to do this. You need to lose weight first. And I’m like, go sit down. I don’t need that.
SEGARRA: And then what about affirmations? You have so many helpful ones in the book.
EVANS: You know, my favorite one is no…
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