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Running Lean — 301 episodes

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331. Why Most Runners Quit Before They See Results

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330. Why Most Runners Never Get Strong (Even If They Lift)

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329. Replay: Top 10 Biggest Myths about Weight Loss

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328. How Runners Sabotage Their Own Progress (And Don’t Even Realize It)

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327. Spring Race Prep: What To Do (and NOT Do) Right Now

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326. Build Your Plate: The Simplest Fat-Loss Framework That Works

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325. Mental Toughness Is a Skill and Here’s How to Train It

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324. The Strength Deficits That Cause Most Running Injuries

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323. How to Lose Weight Without Tanking Your Running

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322. How to Build Unshakable Self-Trust

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321. Run Faster Without Getting Fitter: The Truth About Running Economy

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320. Your Weak Links Are Slowing You Down

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319. The Winter Running Survival Guide

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318. If You’re Always Struggling, You’re Doing It Wrong

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317. You Can’t Rush Progress

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316. The Leaner, Stronger Runner Framework Part 3: Why Motivation Isn’t the Problem

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315. The Leaner, Stronger Runner Framework Part 2: How Runners Should Actually Eat

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314. The Leaner, Stronger Runner Framework Part 1: Why Running More Isn’t the Answer

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313. What This Year Taught You (If You’re Willing to Look)

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312. Why Starting Over Every January Never Works (And What Actually Does)

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311. The Holiday Survival Plan for Runners: Stay Lean, Stay Strong, Stay Sane

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310. The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Losing Weight

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309. Functional Strength for Aging Runners: Stay Powerful for Life

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308. The Hidden Ways Runners Overeat (Without Realizing It)

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307. The Off-Season Advantage: Build Strength and Endurance While Others Rest

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306. Understanding and Identifying Self-Sabotage

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305. What to Do When You Hit the Wall

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304. The In-Between: What Happens After Your Big Race

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303. Are You Too Focused on the Wrong Things?

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302. The Strength You Can’t See

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301. The Fat-Adapted Recovery Formula

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300. 20 Principles to Help You Get Leaner, Get Stronger, Run Better, and Live Longer

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299. Muscle is Your Metabolic Secret Weapon

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298. What Zone 2 Running Really Does (and Doesn’t) Do for Fat Loss

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297. Stop Waiting to Feel Ready

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296. Getting Lean Without Going Crazy

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295. Why You’re Not Getting Stronger (Even Though You’re Lifting)

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294. When You Feel Like Nothing’s Working

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293. Fat Loss Doesn’t Start in the Kitchen

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292. Why Discipline Will Always Beat Motivation

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291. Replay: Common Weight Loss Myths Debunked

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290. 3 Keys to Building Mental Toughness for Endurance Athletes

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289. 10 Food Swaps to Help You Eat Healthier (Without Hating Your Life)

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288. Dumb Stuff Runners Do (And What to Do Instead)

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287. How to Eat for Fat Loss Without Losing Performance

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286. How to Train Smart When It’s Stupid Hot

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285. The Top 5 Leg Strengthening Exercises for Runners

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284. Overcoming Limiting Beliefs: How to Stop Arguing for Your Limitations

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283. Want to Transform Your Body? Shift Your Mindset.

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282. Why Runners Struggle With Strength Training (And How to Fix It)

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281. Replay: Weight Loss Is Not the Goal

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280. How to Fix Your Relationship with Food

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279. Unlock Metabolic Flexibility: Become a Better Fat Burner and Boost Your Endurance

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278. The 5 Biggest Lies We Tell Ourselves About Diet and Exercise

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277. Runners: Stop Trying to Lose Weight! Do This Instead.

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276. Does Coffee Help or Hurt Your Running Performance?

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275. How to Handle Injury or Illness the Right Way

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274. Taking Full Ownership of Your Results

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273. Why Runners Should Be Lifting Heavy Weights

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272. Breaking Through Weight Loss Plateaus

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271. Top 10 Biggest Myths about Weight Loss

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270. The Number One Key to All Success

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269. Replay: 5 Dieting Disasters Runners Need to Avoid

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268. When Your Weight Loss Journey Gets Frustrating

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267. 5 Training Principles All Runners Need to Know

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266. Is It Better to Run Faster or Longer?

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265. 3 Keys to Improve Your Running and Extend Your Life

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264. Knowledge is Overrated

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263. Why You Need to Ditch the Diet Mentality

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262. Forget the New Year’s Resolutions and Do This Instead

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261. Replay: How Your Thinking (More Than Anything Else) Determines Your Results

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260. 10 Hard Truths About Fitness No One Is Talking About

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259. Choose Your Hard

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258. The Truth About Comfort Food

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257. Replay: Handling the Holidays Like a Badass

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256. Why Runners Need Help Losing Weight

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255. The Shortcut to Health & Fitness Success

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254. How Do I Know If I’m Self-Sabotaging?

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253. Lessons Learned at Marine Corps Marathon

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252. Practicing the Art of Discipline

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251. How to Run Smarter with Brodie Sharpe

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250. 3 Things You Need to Do to Get Yourself Unstuck

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249. Avoid These Mistakes and Crush Your Next Race

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248. How Do I Know if I’m Overeating?

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247. The Mindset Shift Required in Order to Succeed

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246. The Macronutrient That Matters Most for Runners

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245. Replay: How to Tell When You’re at Your Natural Weight

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244. Motivation Strategies to Keep You Moving Forward

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243. Why Counting Calories Doesn’t Work

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242. Top 10 Weight Loss Tips for Runners

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241. The Best Cross-Training Exercises for Runners

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240. How to Handle Setbacks, Failures, and Disappointments

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239. Replay: The Myths and Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

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238. Should You Restrict Certain Foods?

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237. What to Do When You Feel Stuck

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236. Replay: Learning to Love the Process

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235. The Important First Step in Creating Change

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234. What It Takes to Build Lean Muscle

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233. The Power of Planning Ahead

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232. Achieving Impossible Goals

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231. Replay: Sticking to Your Plan – Even on Vacation

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230. What to Do in the Off-Season

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229. How to Have More Confidence Now

104

228. Lessons Learned Flying Pig Weekend

105

227. The Power of Practicing Mindfulness

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226. What’s the Best Pacing Strategy?

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225. Pushing Past Your Comfort Zone

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224. How I Experienced Freedom from Alcohol

109

223. The Problem with Eating Whatever You Want

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222. How to Stop the Mindless Eating

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221. What Are You Willing to Sacrifice to Lose Weight?

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220. Should You Lose Weight While Training for a Race?

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219. Being Boring Can Actually Be Good for You

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218. You Have to Change How You Think

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217. 5 Ways to Improve Your Endurance

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216. An Alternative Way To Fuel Long-Distance Running

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215. Lessons Learned from Vacation Eating

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214. Replay: Why Running Doesn’t Work for Weight Loss

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213. Supplements Every Runner Should be Taking

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212. 3 Things You Should Stop Doing if You Want To Lose Weight

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211. Should You Be Tracking Your Food?

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210. Common Weight Loss Myths Debunked

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209. Replay: Stop Arguing for Your Limitations

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208. Remembering Your Future

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207. How To Get Back on Track

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206. Random Thoughts about Weight Loss for Runners

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205. The Problem is You

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204. Replay: 5 Tips to Avoid Gaining Weight This Holiday Season

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203. Making Sense of All the Conflicting Information

130

202. Unraveling Unhealthy Thought Patterns

131

201. Reversing Disease Through Nutrition and Exercise with Dr. Marvin Merrit

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200. Mindset Principles Runners Need to Know

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199. Strength, Power, and Hypertrophy for Runners

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198. Increasing Your Emotional Tolerance

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197. Why You Keep Going Back for More

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196. What Not to Do When Life Gets Chaotic

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195. Taking Control of Your Food Choices

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194. VO2 Max, Lactate Threshold, and Running Economy

139

193. 5 Dieting Disasters Runners Need to Avoid

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192. How Do I Break My Addiction to Sugar?

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191. Fit but Unhealthy?

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190. Carbs Are Not the Enemy

143

189. Shifting Your Locus of Control

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188. The Cycle of Unstoppable Motivation

145

187. Why Moderating Sugar is so Difficult

146

186. Demystifying Metabolism

147

185. Why It’s So Hard to Stick to Your Food Plan

148

184. The Incredible Power of Focus

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183. Are You Addicted to Dopamine?

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182. A Better Approach to the Off-Season

151

181. Ultramarathon Redemption with Pete Caigan

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180. What I Learned Running Solo for 12 Hours

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179. Weight Loss Principles Every Runner Needs to Know Part 3: Mindset

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178. Weight Loss Principles Every Runner Needs to Know Part 2: Exercise

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177. Weight Loss Principles Every Runner Needs to Know Part 1: Nutrition

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176. Handling Setbacks Like a Badass

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175. The Comfort Crisis

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174. The Desire Scale

159

173. Replay: Why Diets Don’t Work

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172. Can Losing Weight Be Fun?

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171. Getting Unstuck

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170. Getting Started With Habit Change

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169. What Should I Eat?

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168. Dealing With Criticism

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167. Reframing Failure

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166. Overcoming Your Fear of Success

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165. The Ultimate Guide to Hydration for Runners

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164. How to Achieve Weight Loss Success

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163. 3 Proven Ways to Get Your Body Burning Fat

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162. Understanding The Different Types of Hunger

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161. The Other Side of Endurance

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160. Should Runners Lift Heavy Weights?

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159. Always Becoming More with Natasha Sorensen

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158. Building Your Aerobic Engine

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157. Lessons Learned This Year and What’s Next

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156. There Is No Finish Line

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155. 3 Things All Successful People Do

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154. The Truth About Food Restrictions

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153. 5 Tips to Avoid Gaining Weight This Holiday Season

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152. Struggling, Suffering, and Giving In

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151. The Importance of Play

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150. Do You Have an Addictive Personality?

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149. Keto vs. Fat-Adapted – Which is Better?

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148. Determining Your Carbohydrate Tolerance

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147. Bucking Conventional Wisdom

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146. Slow Down and Stay in the Flow

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145. All or Nothing is Not Always Best

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144. Handling Stress Like a Badass

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143. Upgrading Your Model Of the World

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142. Overcoming Emotional Eating

191

141. How to Fix Your Metabolism

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140. You Have to Do More to Become More

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139. Eating Healthy Is So Boring!

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138. Is Alcohol Really Working for You?

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137. The Most Common Weight Loss Mistakes Runners Make

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136. How to Avoid Weight Loss Discomfort

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135. The Benefits of Becoming Metabolically Flexible

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134. The Art of Living in Integrity

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133. Being an Example to Those Around You

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132. Ancestral Eating to Improve Health & Fitness

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131. Busting the Biggest Nutrition Myths

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130. Taking Your Health Into Your Own Hands

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129. Back to Basics: The Importance of Strength Training for Runners

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128. Discipline Does Not Mean Punishment

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127. Back to Basics: Why Runners Get Fat

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126. Are You Eating Like an Athlete?

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125. Do You Feel Like You’re Spiraling Out of Control?

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124. Back to Basics: The Thought Model

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123. Back to Basics: Eating Real Food

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122. What Coaching Should Look Like

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121. Is It Time to Change Your Diet?

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120. How to Fail Properly

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119. Why Willpower Doesn’t Work

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118. The Biggest Mistakes of Habit Change

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117. The Power of Total Immersion

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116. The One Big Mindset Shift You Have to Make

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115. Overcoming Weight Loss Fears and Insecurities

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114. Winning The Inner Game

219

113. Getting Out of the Gap and Into the Gain

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112. Taking Back Control of Your Life with Melanie Millaway

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111. Thinking Beyond Your Current Self

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110. Battling The Resistance

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109. Who Are You Becoming?

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108. Being an Example of What’s Possible with Eva Bailey

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107. Prioritizing Rest & Recovery

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106. A Powerful Way to Start Your Day

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Bonus Episode: January 8 Pounds Down Challenge

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105. Lessons Learned in 2021 and Looking Forward to 2022

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104. Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work

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103. Handling the Holidays Like a Badass

231

102. Choosing Your Struggle

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101. What to Do When Life Throws You Curveballs

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100. The Best of the Running Lean Podcast

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99. Overcoming Your Limiting Beliefs

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98. Marathon Recap: What Worked and What Didn’t

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97. Eliminating Expectations

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96. The Ultimate Guide to Sugar Substitutes

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95. Getting Your Family’s Support with Your Weight Loss Plan

239

94. Which Diet Is Best?

240

93. How to Tell When You’re at Your Natural Weight

241

92. Preventing and Treating Running Injuries with Brodie Sharpe

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91. Breaking the Habit of Being You

243

90. Hacking Your Environment to Create Better Results

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89. Fat-Adapted Ultrarunning Success with Kelly French

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88. Embracing the Growth Mindset

246

87. Weight Loss Is Not the Goal

247

86. 7 Surprising Ways to Increase Your Metabolism

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85. Understanding How Habits Really Work

249

84. Fueling Strategies for Low-Carb Running

250

83. The All-or-Nothing Mentality

251

82. Practicing the Art of Discipline

252

81. Good Stress, Bad Stress

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80. Understanding and Eliminating Self-Sabotage

254

79. Demystifying Desire

255

78. The Problem with Streaks

256

77. Happiness is Overrated

257

76. Sticking to Your Plan – Even on Vacation

258

75. How Being Healthy Becomes a Lifestyle with Latisha Simmons

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74. The Ultimate Guide to Protein for Runners

260

73. Becoming a Lean, Fat-Burning Machine and Making It Last For Life – Part 2

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72. Becoming a Lean, Fat-Burning Machine and Making It Last For Life – Part 1

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71. Zero-Carb Marathon Training

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70. Becoming an Emotional Adult

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69. 5 Ways You Sabotage Your Own Success

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68. Our Complicated Relationship With Food

266

67. The Myths and Benefits of Strength Training for Runners

267

66. Eliminating Scale Drama

268

65. The Three Requirements for Making Lasting Change

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64. Warning Signs and Dangers of Overtraining

270

63. Lessons Learned Running 48 Miles in 48 Hours

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62. The Secret Sauce of Self-Motivation

272

61. Making Healthy Habits Stick

273

60. Beverages: The Good and the Bad for Long-Distance Running

274

59. Myths and Misconceptions of Low-Carb Running

275

58. How Stress Is Making Us Fat

276

57. How to Make Healthy Eating a Way of Life

277

56. Good Carbs, Bad Carbs

278

55. 5 Foods That Boost Your Metabolism

279

54. The Benefits of Becoming a Fat-Adapted Runner

280

53. How to Overcome Self-Sabotage

281

52. Looking Back and Moving Forward

282

51. How I Ran a 50k on Zero Calories

283

50. How to Create Unstoppable Motivation

284

49. Be an Example of What’s Possible

285

48. Think, Feel, and Act With Purpose

286

47. How to Handle the Holidays

287

46. Love Yourself Unconditionally

288

45. The 5 Habits Runners Must Have to Lose Weight

289

44. Run Because You Love It

290

43. Embrace Discomfort

291

42. Thrive in Your Body

292

41. Live Vibrantly

293

40. Eat Real Food

294

39. Learning to Love the Process

295

38. Stop Arguing for Your Limitations

296

37. How to Solve the Hunger Problem

297

36. The Myths and Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

298

35. Embracing The Suck

299

34. The Ultimate Guide to Oil

300

33. The Power of Making a Real Commitment

301

32. Why I Changed My Mind About Eating Meat