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8 Mental Tips for Longer Runs Break up Your Run. Dividing your run into smaller segments will make the distance feel much more manageable. At the Remember: It’s Not Always Easy.
As you’re doing a long run, remind yourself that it’s not easy to.Amanda Rice knows how hard it is to run at the end of a long day. On top of her duties as a U.S. naval officer, Rice is a dentist and makes annual trips abroad to.Get ready to say sayonara to tedious long-training runs and give your training a mental edge with these expert tips.
Train Your Brain: How to Use Cognitive Reappraisal While Running. 1. Be Aware Of What You’re Thinking “ Ask yourself if your thoughts during a run.11 Mental Tips to Improve Your Running. 11 Mental Tips to Improve Your Running. By JoAnn Dahlkoetter, Ph.D.
Seeing is believing. To be the best runner you can be, it’s crucial to.10 mental strategies to make you a stronger runner The voices in our head shout a little louder as the long runs get longer. Experiment with breathing tips, running techniques and mindful.
Dr. Grayson Kimball is the President of GTK Sports, a sport psychology consulting organization, and author of the book Grateful Running: Mental Training for Long Distance Runner.Dr. Kimball is a certified sport psychology consultant with the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, a member of the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry, a full-time faculty member in the.Personal trainer and fitness fanatic Steve Mellor from Freedom to Train shares his top running tips.
1. Change your technique. When you run it’s important to make sure you work the full stride length, cut out the long and slow runs where your stride length is short and the running is boring.Here are some simple mental tips that have helped my idle ass take its game to the next level, that will work for virtually any kind of physical activity you’re trying to improve on.Stamina is the strength and energy that allow you to sustain physical or mental effort for long periods of time. form,ultra marathon running,running Tips,fast running,proper running.
5 Mental Tricks for Tackling Your Long Run. So, during my long runs, I imagine myself during a racestrong, powerful, and determinedwhich gets me through my long run!Pros: Running with a training partner can turn a long run into a social hour (or two or three), says Colleen Tindall, a USATF-certified running coach in Moorestown, New Jersey.“It’s more fun.
Whether you just started running or have run for years, running a fast 5k—3.1 miles—is no easy feat. You might say it’s *only* 3.1 miles. But running a fast 5k demands speed, endurance, and the ability to embrace the burn only a 5k can deliver. A 5k requires as much mental toughness as longer.
While running itself is a gloriously simple workout, there is more to it than just putting one foot in front of the other—especially when you start lacing up for longer or more frequent runs.When the time came for a longer run at the weekend, I started out at 9kph, which I’d managed half an hour of before, but soon thought “this is too difficult, I’m never going to manage very long at this pace” and I scaled back to 8.5kph, which I managed fine.Wait until the last five or 10 minutes of a longer run and then speed up to an effort level of six or seven on a scale of one to 10. —Matt Fitzgerald, coach and training expert for Pear Sports and author of The New Rules of Marathon and Half-Marathon Nutrition: A.
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| from Hal Koerner’s Field Guide to Ultrarunning: Training for an Ultramarathon, from 50K to 100 Miles and Beyond |
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| from Mental Training for Peak Performance: Top Athletes Reveal the Mind Exercises They Use to Excel |
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| from Runner’s World Complete Book of Running: Everything You Need to Run for Weight Loss, Fitness, and Competition |
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| from Hansons Marathon Method: Run Your Fastest Marathon the Hansons Way |
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Dear Katie,
I looked in the amazon there are too many books by various author with the same title ” overcoming OCD”. Is there a particular book / author you were mentioning?
Plze recommend.
Thanks
Jay.
Oh my God.I’ve been having OCD problems for 2 years and didn’t know what to do about it. I cried. I thank you soooo much for making this video! I can’t thank you enough…because this video really made a difference. My life is not as miserable. Keep this up!
I have an OCD. I have thoughts that I will kill someone. But I realize that it is a stupid thing. Next day I have thoughts about commiting a suicide. But I just dont want to commit a suicide, I realize its not good. Help. I cant get these things out of my head:(
Everyday everything has to be perfect everything has to be the same I just can’t help it.
It’s almost as if everytime you do something you would concider to be a negative action that you can’t forgive yourself so it concerns you with worry that you’ll recreate that moment over and over again, where as if you try not to care you could over come the thought barrier
This is interesting and very useful. I have anxiety issues and I find it difficult to control my thoughts. I am addicted to too many things. I have had it for long but it never affected my life. But now I am in a situation where I am taking help.
I am sharing few things which I found useful and might be of use for others with any kind of anxiety issues..
1) It is important to know the basics but do not worry too much about the big label for your mental health conditions. It can only add to your worries. Leave it to the experts. I have seen many many people (Including me in earlier days) doing whole lot of research to only end up thinking they have 10 different disorders. Stay away from too many unnecessary information especially from others as each one’s condition is different.
2) Seek help from a professional. You might think you know everything and try to solve it yourself. But it makes a huge difference when you listen and follow the expert advice.
3)
The goal is not to get rid of the OCD, but rather to control your responses to it.
I like to think of it as if you’re exploring city and the thoughts are the buildings. When you find yourself in a building that you don’t like there’s no need to tear down the building, simply walk away from it.
Hi Katie, I am really suffering from serious OCD. My ritual consists of tensing my whole face and neck muscles and vital parts (heart,eyes) of my body whenever I feel fearful as I feel it grants me protection from my worst fears from happening. I have been through session of CBT without avail. I have been conditioned to realize that tensing up always works all the time and things won’t screw up if I do this ritual. I know its irrational but I cannot stop it. However I am just so unfortunate. One day when I tried to stop this ritual by relaxing. I managed to relax and everything went fine however 30 minutes later I saw a bedbug on my bed (one of my primary fears in life) and I freaked out and went into a panic attack. I called the pest control and they cleared those pests out and it was not a serious infestation. But the main point is: My worst fears usually don’t come true when I tense up my muscles but OMG it actually did when I relaxed. However, months later I managed to get over it and tried relaxing again and not tensing up my facial, neck muscles. Just 20 minutes after that bad things or coincidences started to happen again. I drew my curtain and its snapped and fell. 10 minutes after when I left my house to throw the garbage, there was a hole in the bag and rotten meat started falling out all over the floor. It was so scary I started crying and freaking out as it my hypothesis is really true that I have to tense my muscles my entire life or bad stuff like this will happen all the time. I really do not know what to do and I am contemplating stopping school and later work and just sleeping in my bed as I cant relax anymore. The weird thing is that I am still able to sleep with no problem but when I get back up in the morning at 8am before work all these fflashbacks of the previous coincidences keep flushing in my mind that I cannot relax anymore as this coincidences might happen again.
i am 20 years old and from small i have this pblm from early age idont know what to do i also have dreams bad dreams but i try to control by haring songs and watching romantic movies witch has less action but i watch action movies and ilove em and when ever i see blood i get scared that i may like it at the age of 11 i hurt a kid by cutting his hand with a blade and i still remember the flesh opening up wheni cut him deep from that day onwards i isolated my self from all family ties icontrol my fear by laughing idontget angry much often but if i do get angry i cant control the urge to kill or seeing blood i always hurt myself to become normal and control myself by cutting myself or locking myself up and punching the cubord plz help idont go out i dont hve freinds and i need help
HI I don,t know if I have ocd but I have a compulsive issue when I want to remember a name in the past there faces pop up and then it begins im in my head for hrs tring to remember can you define what this is and why I cant just stop thinking about it
Hi Katie, I have a big problem, I am only 13 year’s old, and I have mega OCD. If I go down the stair’s my mind forces me to go up and down the stairs again, for 5 times. My family is annoyed, and so am I! I really don’t want my friend’s to find out, but even at school I’m having a hard time with blocking my OCD. You are correct; I have tried to block it away, but my OCD just becomes worse. It’s becoming better though, but should I go to a doctor, or a therapist? It’s being really bad.
I am so glad to find this video. I have been trying to fight my thoughts and they ARE getting more severe. This affects my depression and I don’t want that to happen. I want to be well.
Hi Katie
I am new to OCD.
and My Problem is i cant control my Thoughts
and its too difficult for me too face it all the time
When i consulted Psychiatrist, I said everything about what i have been going thorugh,and he said i am having “God Fear n Few”, Does these all comes under OCD?
I am facing many problems due to this,I dnt knw when will i get rid of this
an how to face,
Would you Help me by few suggestions?
Katie, i understand what your saying about just let the thoughts be, and don’t fight them. but what do i do then? what is a step by step thought process that i could follow? For instance, i dont fight the thought to check something again, so i let the thought sit in my mind, and then do i let it leave by just doing something else that takes my mind off of it? How do i stop myself from jumping on the train?
I always have someone waiting for me at end, like my Wife or Daughter. The thought of letting them down (although they would never think that) keeps me going…… make them proud
hi katie i had this problem like couple yrs ago but i was able to get rid of it but now it seems that the thoughts are coming in more frequent and yes i have tried to block them and push them im scared of them they are images of me hurting my family animals i love animals i never wana hurt them but its just images please help im scared.
I keep having these thoughts in my head that I won’t be able too pee.. and when I go to the toilet I can’t, It’s way out of order now, It’s horrible. Please help.
Hi Katie, thanks for this video. It really makes sense to me that thoughts are just meaningless mental images that we don’t need to pay attention to.This has been really useful.
Mostly, I can now prevent myself from reacting to disturbing thoughts by using breathing exercises, and let the anxiety dissolve. Although, I still have a few thoughts that I find so imposing that I can’t stop myself from repeating a positive mantra which I know is completely irrational. If try to ignore these particular thoughts I have a lingering, uncomfortable, kind of ‘itchy’ feeling which only goes away once I perform the ritual to ‘nutralise’ it.
Do you have any tips for this? Or do I just have to ride-out the anxiety? I think that could get a bit stressful and I’d kind of like to stay in a positive emotional state if I can.
Thanks again for all the videos!!
James
I read something like relabel: acknowledge the fact that this is not me, its my ocd. Reattribute: this because of a biochemical imbalance in my brain and lastly refocus: your attention to something else. What can u say about this?
Thank you for reminding me of this therapy.. The train metaphors were the first therapy I had back in the days I first realized & diagnosed. It really work back then but as far as time goes I forget about it sometimes and all I want to do is back to the habit of pursuing the thoughts.
Wow Katie, I am astonished to find out about you. I speak for myself and I do suffer quite a lot from my repetitive thoughts and patterns of thought, and it is so nice to see someone like you that works on helping people to stop suffering as we do. Thank you very much for being such a kind person. You already know this but it does mean the world to us to get better on our pain, and you contributing to such thing is quite honorable. I feel so much gratitude right now. Thanks again
OCD sucks for me. if i imagine myself running, a thought will pop into my head of a wall appearing out of no where and blocking me. and if i try and imagine the wall not being there, it always comes back and takes over my brain and its impossible to imagine running again because the thought will always come back and enslave my brain.
Dear Katie, first of all thankyou so much for those wonderful videos. Secondly where can I get those ” overcoming OCD” videos? Also please give us some more resources if you can.
Looking forward for more videos on ERP, infact if you can make us a step by step ERP with more examples it would be great. I totally understand the ERP principle, when I watched your videos and I thought it should not be that though. But actually when I applied it in my practical situation I couldn’t do it more than some time as the urge was extremely forceful. Please if you can guide us step by step on how to beat this monster I would really appreciate that. There are not many people ( without OCD) who understand the pain of OCD sufferers and their mental agony. Thankyou so much for understanding our problem and it’s intensity. Thankyou for your time and effort in providing us the best resource. Looking forward for more videos and the site to find ” overcoming OCD” video.
So distracting yourself from the thoughts is’nt helpful as it makes them worse? Same as ignoring them?
Also with stopping the thoughts i have a habit from my panic attacks is saying stop to myself in my head this is a bad idea with OCD?
Hi Katie Mam, I’m srikant, 25, from India. I’ve been taking Sertraline for 7 months. I think I’ve a 50% control over my thoughts right now, but occasionally few intrusive thoughts reoccur in my mind & it takes hours to overcome it, although I overcome after few hours. But it generates severe headache, tremors, loss of consciousness or focus over my work. It hampers my study up to a great extent. So, plz give me some ideas so that I can have at least more percentage of control over my mind as I know OCD can’t be cured & it’s a life-long disorder. I don’t have general ocd symptoms like: handwash, cleaning, counting etc… But one thing is uttering mantras for several times, I feel awkward if I don’t do this.
I’ve also consulted with Doctors & they suggested me to go for CBT, although I’ve not gone to them. Thanks.
This is interesting and very useful. I have anxiety issues and I find it difficult to control my thoughts. I am addicted to too many things. I have had it for long but it never affected my life. But now I am in a situation where I am taking help.
I am sharing few things which I found useful and might be of use for others with any kind of anxiety issues..
1) It is important to know the basics but do not worry too much about the big label for your mental health conditions. It can only add to your worries. Leave it to the experts. I have seen many many people (Including me in earlier days) doing whole lot of research to only end up thinking they have 10 different disorders. Stay away from too many unnecessary information especially from others as each one’s condition is different. Only go into the length of information not into the depth.
2) Seek help from a professional. You might think you know everything and try to solve it yourself. But it makes a huge difference when you listen and follow the expert advice. Best thing to stop any kind of anxiety or addiction is to surrender yourself to someone you can trust on and have the faith in the process you are asked to follow no matter what it is. Do not use your brain when things are not right. I am still shocked to accept that the things I did over many years, which I thought was absolutely right to my own self, is actually wrong. So be open and be positive to what you hear and follow.
3) What she mentioned is so true about the thoughts. We can never stop the thoughts but we just have to accept it as a part of us which is going to come and go. It is so true even in case of people who suffer from tinnitus/ ringing in their head. More you try to think and try to stop it only grows. Best is to ignore. It is also true that it takes lot of practice as we have let those thoughts rule us. We need to ignore those thoughts and just execute differently. Over time, those thoughts would fade away.
4) I am suffering from extreme anxiety and depression at this time.I should not be giving advice to anyone. But I see a silver lining. I always look into the future and the positive side of things. That always help. Believe you can beat this.
5) Do not expect anyone to understand your problem or show sympathy for you suffering from this. You will be disappointed if you expect from others. Expect the least from others, you will get more. People are helpful and you will get the help when you least expect it.
6) Tell your family and friends about it when you are ready. Even if they do not understand well, you will need their help and they only wish you well. Sooner you tell the better. It will ease you off a lot more. Atleast you do not have anything to hide on top.
This is just my opinion. Each one is different. Get an expert to help you. All the best:)
Thanks for this video. I have a question, dealing with some fairly intense anxiety issues for some time now, I’m confused when it comes to the best way of handling intrusive thoughts and physical symptoms. I obviously understand your advice is to ignore, however if that’s not a super easy option, particularly at first, what’s the best way to help these thoughts pass by? Is it best to voice your concerns/thoughts aloud to an individual you’re with (assuming you’re not alone) or rather keep these thoughts internalized and simply try to broom them under a rug until you forget about them? I typically have tried the second option (attempting to ignore) typically with no prevail. However, on the same token, if I voice my anxiety aloud “I’m feeling a little anxious, can we please step outside,” it’s as if I’m giving into the anxiety and in some way, because i’m voicing it aloud, i’m reconfirming the anxiety is indeed there, thus an issue, thus a snowball effect of mental and physical emotions/symptoms flood my whole being. Any words of wisdom on aiding the process of ignoring?
Some one once said “Your brain will try to quit, before your body” That helps me on a run.
Last night I ran 10K without turning back and then walked 10K back home. Yay me!
This was really helpful. I’ve been experiencing pure OCD about two months now. I thought i just had really bad anxiety. I’ve had depression on and off since I was 21-22(26 now) and my anxiety was at its highest last year with facial numbness/tingling and racing thoughts. So I googled intrusive irrational thoughts yesterday and found out that pure ocd is exactly what I’m going through. I’m happy I have an answer and don’t feel like I’m some sort of sick/evil person. Any books you recommend? I stopped seeing my therapist months ago for my depression because I felt better. Your videos are very helpful! Thank you so much! Don’t stop making them!!!
You great!! I have been suffering with obsessive thoughts for as long as I can remember, I’ve got a bunch if “problems” that i revisit and worry about and when I’m worrying about one thought the one previous to that is almost laughable but in the moment seams like an actual problem. I just came to the conclusion that they are not actually problems and it’s only a problem when you think about it, now when a thought cones in to my mind I just like you said ignore
“when it gets mentally tough: so like after the first 60 seconds? ahahh
I followed someone for the first time on Youtube. I am going to follow with your all videos. I need help as I am suffering from OCD.
Please Tell me if I am doing the right thing to counter my OCD
1.When I have an OCD attack, i.e. when an intrusive thought pops into my mind, I instantly become mindful of it and try to rationalize it as much as possible. I challenge the irrational thought by writing it down in a diary and then writing down a rational response by challenging that thought in a column next to it This greatly weakens the intrusive thought.
2.I find that being mindful of my thoughts and feelings helps a lot. That way I’m able to discern the root of an obsessive thought. i.e. how & why that intrusive thought came to be at that particular moment in my mind. I find that being aware of my thoughts, especially the intrusive ones, helps me to a great degree.This helps me retrace my steps to the root of an obsessive thought.
3.I do a 15 minute ‘mindfulness of breath’ meditation 15 minutes every morning and feel extremely relaxed. It is really helping.
I’ve been doing these things for around 3 months now and the results have been great. Although there are times when things have been going great for so long and then one day out of the blue I will get stuck on a Obsessive thought and worry about it all day long.
It takes me around a day or more to get back to my normal routine of the three steps I mentioned above. Its just that the intrusive thought feels so powerful in that moment that I feel helpless. but then eventually I become aware of it and tackle it fully.
This happens atleast once a month. Can you give me some suggestions as to how I should tackle these momentary relapses? It would be really helpful:)
Since seeing this video the other day I have kept what you have been saying in this video and other videos of yours and though it is hard what you do with the thoughts afterwards keep things lingering on. I guess we just have to accept what comes into our heads no matter how annoying it is
Very interesting, I have been analyzing my thoughts and anything and everything to the point where I am now suicidal. I have done the whole listening to my pure o and letting it control me by giving into it, because I haven’t let the thoughts just sit there and I have paid SO much attention to it and convinced myself how evil I am it has just escalated more and more to the point of where I am now which is very difficult just to function for 1 minute. It’s very hard to just ignore thoughts that make me feel totally scared and in hell but I have tried recently and will continue now that I have seen this video. I am on medication and it does help the thoughts and words be more quieter but it does NOT get rid of things.
what about the physical reactions? i cant let go of the perception reality of the thoughts because of them.
Thanks Katie,you have changed my life……thank u soo very much.
Hello, Katie! I want to ask you this thing. I do ocd rituals in my head like counting something and repeating some words over and over again. It’s a thought too so should I ignore it and let it be there, resist the urge to do that or should I do something else? I’m a little bit confused about that.
Thank You! This is a very helpful video. Excited to see the rest!
That’s bullshit lady! You can control the obsessions (unwanted thoughts) with proper medication. For those you choose to take it.
Very helpful. I keep getting the thoughts and solving them. N it never ends but this is the answer
Thanks for sharing this information… Am definitely gonna try it in my next run.. hope the mantra will work! Row row…row your toes
Started running in February and today I did a half marathon. Thanks for the tips and motivation running channel!!
I have motion sickness and when I am in the car I have OCD thoughts that tells me to throw up in the car…..do I just do nothing when that happens….I often get sick in the car.
It’s so frustrating that my head is congested with so many annoying thoughts that I can’t ignore, and also that no one I know has any idea I’m having them. Thanks for the videos and hopefully one day I can look back and think of how silly this was.
I use. “Legs of steel, lungs of easy breathing.” It does help a lot.
“Uh oh, running out of breath but I (Oh I), I got stamina” ‘The Greatest’ Sia. This is my favourite song to run to!
Instead of using tips to distract myself away from the pain i have learned to embrace the pain as it is a big part of the running process. A proper endurance runner is a very much a masochist whether he/she’s willing to admit it or not!
Music helps me on my runs. This track had me laughing out loud and spurred me on in my 1st 10k.
https://youtu.be/u69bAy8B5Bs
Hi Katie.. First thanks for posting the videos, I have been suffering from OCD from last 2-3 years but in last one year i have been facing severe OCD problem at my workplace. I keep checking my work again and again and can’t satisfy myself that i am doing correct work. Example I keep on checking the numbers and words again and again, if i read a number 10 i just keep on checking it again and again that i am reading it right (In short i am really afraid that i will lose my job if i will do something wrong that’s why i keep on checking it again and again). In this way i am taking really long time to complete my work. Please suggest something, i have even tried medicines for this for around 10 months but to no effect.Should i try CBT also please suggest.And as you suggested that whenever a thought comes don’t focus on it keep it in the mind and do something else, just want to ask will this work for me as my thought are related to my work and i can’t proceed further if i will do something else. Please help, Waiting for your early reply and thanks in advance
I use the phrase from the great cycling legend Jens Voigt ‘Shut up legs’. It’s worked so far!
I generally say “you just want to stop. You don’t need to. You can go further” or “I didn’t run this far to only run this far”