AMR Trains: Workout Motivation: Overcoming Excuses + Inertia


As the upcoming months get colder and darker, we're guessing you may need a little workout motivation. In this chatty podcast, Dimity, Sarah Bowen Shea, and Cathy Engstrom, the Train Like a Mother Club manager, run through a list—along with a few laughs—of how to overcome excuses and inertia.

The trio discuss:

  • why the weather outside is never as frightful as it feels inside;
  • how you need to be your own (organized) sports mom;
  • the benefits of aiming for a B-/C+ workout; and
  • how Taylor Swift's Midnights might just keep you sweating for longer than you think.

Read Cathy's workout motivation post.

Join us for Joy to the Run, a free, month-long (sweaty) celebration in December. Registration opens November 14.

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After serving as a guest engineer when co-hosts Sarah and Dimity come to Minnesota to record live episodes, I'm now producing all three of Another Mother Runner's regular weekly podcasts – Another Mother Runner, AMR Trains, and AMR Answers – which explore the intersection of running, training and mothering. Click the "read more" for full details and to listen to episodes.

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