 Papa's in charge today Papa's in charge today. Oh boy Weight training weight training coming right up weight training Just one of those Survival of the fittest type of days. Oh man. We're gonna make it, but it's a little crazy All right going out in the hoka Clifton fives taking them out for another spin because yes I will be comparing the hoka Clifton fives to the new balanced beacons later in the week Maybe Thursday likely Friday stay tuned because I know a lot of you are asking in the comments to compare the Clifton Five to the beacon it's coming. Stay tuned. All right time for a little strength training. You know what I mean You know what I mean? How'd we do? How'd we do? We done it. Oh man strength training at its finest right Michael. Oh man Okay, let's go inside Here we go time to stretch roll it out Feeling good three miles. Oh better stop the watch. We need the mama. We need the mama He did great. He did great. He didn't eat all day, but he did great. I mean basically Napped just a teeny tiny bit teeny tiny bit. Hi mama's restored Mama's restored All right second video just dropped the turbos go check it out upper right hand corner if you are interested in the Nike Pegasus 35 turbos, you definitely want to go watch that video. All right Remember yesterday the Nike Vemaro 14's were swiped off the out of the bushes. Somebody took my Nike Vemaro 14's They're gone. Well a month ago. Somebody took my arm warmers I was doing a half marathon time trial and the arm warmers were on the side I was running. I got a little too hot and then I threw them to the side of the road I came back like 30 minutes later and they were gone. So anyway, I have a replacement pair And you know what color they are, you know what color they are. Thank you. Thank you cyber Monday deals. All right Here we go Zenza Zenza and yes, they are down below Z E N S a H Z E N S a H. Let's check these out. Hello Hello, not too shabby. Look how bright green, you know, I like green. I like green a lot. Oh, baby All right, let's put them on. I am off to the gym for the first time in Two and a half months. I attempted to run a hundred mile race in 2018 Didn't turn out so well, but I attempted if you want to go check it out. It got pretty pretty intense Let's just put it that way But I thought ahead of time that I really needed to add some upper body and lower body strength Therefore, I went to the gym about once a week to you know, pump iron to lift some weights to get stronger So today's video is not about like techniques for how to improve your strength However, I want to get the discussion going about strength training for runners and we're gonna do Probably 20 videos. No, probably 10 videos at some point about strength training for runners Different techniques different philosophies behind the topic and it's a big topic. So today is not that day to Drill down into the topic too deep therefore, I'm on my way to the gym to get back into the rhythm of lifting and I like to go once a week Sometimes I'll increase it to maybe twice every 10 days. Anyway, let's go to the gym and Get just get back get back to the routine Oh It's it's good to be back. It's good to be back in the weight room a little strength never hurts a runner All right, we're gonna talk more about this back at the house There we go. There we go That was just a little vignette into some of the strengthening exercises that I like to do as a runner But before we get to more discussion on strength and lifting and the gym and all that stuff I want to read the comment of the week from Will listen to this guy just listen to this turn on your ears. Here we go Comment of the week and just so you know for all the new subscribers, which again welcome I give a shout out to what I perceive as the best comment in the last seven days And of course, there's literally not just hundreds of comments now every week There's thousands and so I'm I'm gonna miss some but anyway, here we go from will let's roll Grateful and this was in connection to a question of the day about what are you grateful for that is connected to running? Grateful for my mental and physical health because because of running after running cross-country in high school 10 years ago I never ran consistently until April 2018. So just this year Initially started running again to lose weight 70 pounds lost and I am in the best shape of my life chasing down old PRs and setting new ones Above all running has become a huge passion that makes me incredibly happy I ran my first 50k last weekend, which is something I would have never thought I'd do It's just hard to believe how dark of a place I was in less than a year ago Until I came out the other side of it Damn grateful will there you go. Thank you will you get the comment of the week And thank you for being open and raw and real with all of us. I can't even know what to say I mean and for I'm just grateful that you are out of that dark place and that running helped you get there That's all I can say. It's all I can say. All right keyword strength. You better believe it It's strength today because I'm beginning the discussion with all of you about Are you interested in learning more about strength on you too? I wish at the University of Colorado that I would have Lifted a little more seriously as a division one cross-country and track runner. I lifted hard We lifted Tuesdays and Fridays at CU. It was good. We had a lifting coach who really knew his stuff I love a lot of the things that I do now are from him But I do wish I would have taken it a little more seriously. What do I mean by that? I'm kind of a little guy. I pack a punch, but I'm five five a hundred and twenty pounds a lot of the guys that I was racing in college. They were five eight to six one Let's say as it was the range and probably were in the range of about a hundred and forty five 285 approximately approximately they were just strong dudes and as I get older I am beginning to lean into the camp that I want to be a little stronger in order to maybe push off age a little bit but in order to be able to Maintain my form late in races especially for the the marathon distance 50k distance because when you get tired your form starts to get loosey-goosey You start to lose your ability to push forward and so again I just wish I would have been a little stronger in college, but I'm making up for it now Right, you know never give up never give up and a quick side story about strength It connects to my brother Joseph who you saw me run with a couple days ago in high school He was a very very good runner and he's still a great runner But there was one thing that I used to basically yell at him in races in high school in the you know The 5k the 2 mile the 1 mile and I guarantee he knows what I'm thinking of Pump your arms pump your arms like that is my go-to Encouragement in a race so if I remember watching you guys race That's what I'm gonna tell you because when your legs get tired when your knee drive is starting to hurt Even like I did this a couple 10 days ago in the 5k like I mentally said okay I've got one mile to go pump my arms because when your legs won't go when they're tired Your arm pump your arm movement will bring you to the finish line I tell you I'm telling you if you consciously make that decision to pump those arms. It makes a huge difference Therefore, that's why in a gym. I love the pumping the arms lift anyway. That's a quick side story I love it. I love it. I'll end the question of the day Do you work on your strength outside of running? if so why And if you don't work on your strength outside of running if so why why not and listen I did not work on my strength outside of running for a good three or four years after college Like I took I took a lot of time off And partially because it was kind of expensive to get a gym membership. So that's a legitimate reason I'm just curious to I'm gauging where you guys are at in the whole Spectrum of lifting and working out and getting stronger. So I'm not there's no right answer here Okay, just share where you're at with strength and lifting and all that good stuff I would appreciate it down in the comments Ladies and gentlemen, I am gonna call it. I'm gonna call it. We did it great day Well crazy great day, but crazy day crazy day. I mean, you know push-ups in the kitchen children on your back You know that kind of day See beauty work hard and love each other. We will see you tomorrow