EPISODE · Jul 1, 2025 · 37 MIN
E44 - Running Postpartum Roadmap: Navigating Your Comeback Journey
from The Women's Running Lab · host Alison Marie, PhD
This episode explores the journey of running postpartum, with Alison sharing her personal struggles with incontinence, pain, and a premature return to running. Emphasizing that recovery is highly individual, she outlines a thoughtful, phased approach focused on rebuilding pelvic floor strength, core connection, and overall stability before gradually returning to running with a structured milestone plan. The episode highlights the importance of patience, tuning into your body’s signals, and avoiding rushed progress to prevent injury. Listeners are also directed to free and paid resources designed specifically for running postpartum, offering step-by-step guidance tailored for postpartum runners aiming for a safe and confident return.Resources Mentioned:Postpartum Resources: There you will find options for postpartum with a living child at home and for postpartum after pregnancy or infant loss. Each will include the following where workouts and main content are essentially the same but each is taught in its own context and with respect to what postpartum life looks and feels like right now.Postpartum Run Ready Road Map: This FREE resource will introduce you to the 5 steps in my START Formula so that you have confidence that you are taking the steps back to that thing that makes you feel like you, in a way that feels good in your body and builds a solid foundation for all your future performance goals.Postpartum Run Ready Fundamentals: With this full course eliminate the guesswork with a full step-by-step plan using my START Formula so that you have confidence that you are taking the steps back to that thing that makes you feel like you, in a way that feels good in your body and builds a solid foundation for all your future performance goals.Postpartum Ready To Run Checklist Video Walkthrough: This video will walk you there the strength based assessments in the Postpartum Ready To Run ChecklistFollow Along Between Episodes on Instagram and if you enjoyed this episode please give a share and tag me in your stories!
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This episode explores the journey of running postpartum, with Alison sharing her personal struggles with incontinence, pain, and a premature return to running. Emphasizing that recovery is highly individual, she outlines a thoughtful, phased approach focused on rebuilding pelvic floor strength, core connection, and overall stability before gradually returning to running with a structured milestone plan. The episode highlights the importance of patience, tuning into your body’s signals, and av...
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