BR 53: How to Start Running for Extreme Beginners with No Fitness and No Experience

Anybody can become a runner, but there is a right way, a process that always works. Sadly, many runners fail to discover that correct process, the method that makes sense for runners at that super early stage of their running journey.

In fact, most people go about it in the exact wrong way because, while people think running is intuitive, it is not. Starting to run is not intuitive.

Just because you knew how to play tag as a kid or run the bases in little league does not mean you can figure out how to get started running later in life, how to string together a few miles of running. The way you think you should start is typically not the right way and will almost always lead to more frustration than success.

Running until you can’t run any more, walking until you recover enough to run again, and repeating that process is not the way to do it.

Not to worry. I am here to help. There is nothing I like better than swooping in to rescue you before you get to the point of giving up, deciding you just don’t have the body for rit.

Believe me!! That is not the problem!

It’s key to note the huge chasm between someone who isn’t yet running even 30 steps and someone who is running a mile or even running a quarter mile.

That’s where most beginner programs fail you. They assume too much fitness. They are not realistic, not designed for the total non-runner, the extremely beginner runner, people who’ve never run before or who’ve tried to run and failed or who are older or overweight or both - or people who have just never exercised.

All these people can succeed, and this podcast is exactly for those people.

I’m here to get you on the right path for what I call ‘beginning’ beginner runners or ‘extreme’ beginners.

You must start at the right point, with the right amount of running alternated with the right amount of walking and you must progress at an appropriately gradual rate.

I can stop you from making the two biggest beginner runner mistakes that most often lead beginner runners to put their running shoes on the shelf, permanently.

You need to know exactly how to start running, what to do the first week and every week after. You need to start at Beginner Runner Square One. That’s what you get from me.