Resilience is a skill and a muscle. You may be born with natural talent, but if you want to be great, you've got to practice it and make it stronger. Today, former NCAA D1 runner, Sports Psychologist, and resilience expert Dr. Stephen Gonzalez and I talk about cultivating resilience and optimism to help you overcome adversity in all aspects of your life.

Alexi Pappas: Olympian, author, filmmaker, student of the sport, and all around awesome person talks about how she runs healthy. We go deep on nutrition, her mindset, and what it feels like to have your first major setback. Enjoy!

Meb Keflezighi is the only American to win a Boston Marathon, NYC Marathon, and an Olympic Medal. He's also possibly the nicest guy ever. Today on the show we talk about his time at an italian military boarding school, his 20+ year relationship with his coach Bob Larsen, and dig up some details you might not know about his legendary Boston marathon victory. Let’s get into it!

Before he was a 12:58 5k-er, and star of the cult classic running documentary, The Hunt, Woody Kincaid of The Bowerman Track Club battled a string of stress fractures. On today's show, we dive into the attitude change and diet change that allowed him to get over the stress fractures and realize his great potential. James Randon of The Saucony Freedom Track Club joined as Co-Host!

There was a time when running was the world’s simplest sport. No rules. No fancy equipment, just you, a pair of shoes and the road. Then, gradually every aspect of running seemed to grow a computer. Now you can have a GPS on your wrist, a pulse oximeter on your other wrist and an AI powered run coach in the sole of your shoes pumping technique advice into your bluetooth headphones. But what role should this technology play in our sport? How does transforming running to a technologically...

Nick Willis won his first olympic medal at 25, his second at 33, and now at 37 years old he’s still a favorite every time he toes the line in the Mile or 1500m. In fact, he’s in the middle of the healthiest streak in his running career after most of his competitors have hung up their spikes. Nick has battled every injury you can think of, but 19 years in a row, he’s broken 4 minutes in the mile. He’ll chock a lot of it up to luck, but on today’s show, we talk about the bold choices he...

Dr. Cheri Blauwet is a former wheelchair racer with 7 Paralympic medals and 6 World Major Marathon trophies on her mantle. She’s also a sports medicine physician Brigham and Women's hospital & Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital while maintaining an assistant professorship at Harvard Medical school. Dr. Blauwet has done extensive research on overuse injuries in adaptive athletes and athletes without disabilities, so if you’re looking for one person to talk to on the subject of healthy...

Do you like running? Well you might owe this guy a “thank you” for making the sport popular in the first place. Frank Shorter is the only American to win 2 medals in the Olympic Marathon, and his 1972 Gold at the Munich games is often seen as the moment that catalyzed the start of the running boom in America. On today’s show, we bounce around Frank’s 60 year running career while talking about wisdom he’s acquired on staying healthy and loving the sport. We get into what active recovery and...

To runners in Boston, there are few athletes more legendary than Bill Rodgers. Boston Billy may have been born in Connecticut, but when you win the Boston marathon 4 times and run 100 laps of the one and a half mile loop at Jamaica Pond in one week, the city of Boston is going to name you as their own. Bill is one of the greatest marathoners in American history. He’s won every road race you can think of, many of them more than once, and has manage to log over 180,000 healthy lifetime miles....

Today on the show I sit down with 2020 Olympic Qualifier Molly Seidel. This year at the US Olympic Marathon trials, Molly wasn’t exactly the number one favorite, but as the miles wore on and the field started to melt away, Molly endured. In her first ever marathon, she crossed the line in second place with a time of 2:27:31 and earned a spot to the Tokyo Olympic Team. We chatted about the mentality that’s allowed her to come back from injury and how she's perfected the art of getting race...

At Recover Athletics, it's our mission to help runners become injury proof and part of the minority of runners who go a whole year or even their whole career without sustaining an injury.  Every couple of weeks, I will bring you interviews with professional runners, former Olympians and top sports medicine professionals to hear their stories and pass along advice that you can use in your running career to go miles and miles injury-free.