How to Run Without STOPPING (Even When You Get Tired!)

so I'm joined today by my friend Luke Tversky Luke is the endurance adventurer and last year was it last year that was took part in well they took part in it's your event the ultimate triathlon so let's start before we get into this QA about mental toughness as runners let's start talking about what Luke's been getting up to tell us about the ultimate trial a bit bit about you mate yeah no worries so I'm an endurance adventurer basically I do crazy big challenges to try and inspire others to live their lives every single day because that's how I live mine so the latest big challenge I did was the ultimate truth on it was 2,000 climbers in 12 days from Morocco to Monaco it wasn't easy it wasn't simple didn't go to plan but when you do these big endurance challenges they rarely do absolutely but you got the job done hey and there's a documentary going to be coming out soon yeah so that everyone keep an eye out for you can find Luke obviously on Twitter on Facebook or the usual social channels and we met I suppose first time God knows how many years ago eight years ago eight years ago I'm going to guess around about six Wow okay and we had a chance meeting in the cafe this morning and I thought it'd be a great opportunity to actually quickly pop the camera up and start doing a quick Q&A around an obvious topic really when dealing with someone like Luke the mental side of training and obviously racing or partaking in these challenges so I quickly put a message out on Facebook and asked the bulletproof group you guys if you had any specific questions and a couple big come through we're going to talk around those as we go but why did you why did you make the transition from footballer to getting into more of these these endurance challenges and and how's your mental I suppose approach being shaped by this this transition so when we first met as James said I was a I was a footballer wasn't very good one and he we did some rehab together and eventually after three years of injuries breaking down even this guy couldn't put me back together I was that bad I I wasn't living life as I said my whole thing now is to inspire others a little and I wasn't living so I wanted to change this and after another injury i hobbled home and signed up to the infamous marathon de Serbs as his first running race yeah I still don't understand why or how it happened so basically I signed up to that and then this is where the endurance adventure was born and I've done loads of big challenges over the last four years so to get back to the question how has my mental training approach or what mental strength approach gone from footballer to endurance adventurer some of it's still very similar I still use different exercises that I did as a footballer to what I do now is an endurance adventurer and the first one that I'll give you guys is my rule of five okay I would break a sprint session when I was a footballer down into five repetitions whether we did 5 or 10 or whatever and I do that as an endurance adventurer now 5 kilometres 50 kilometres breaking into blocks of 10 and how I work that is ok so we've got 5 things to do number one it's the first one we've just got to do it there's no drivers just get it done it's the first one number two we've got the experience of number one and what it's going to feel like so we know what it's going to be like most of the time it's going to hurt so we knock that down that's number two down now here's a tough one number three it's the peak of the mountain it's horrible this is the really one that you've got focus on get it's going to hurt but let's get it done so we do that one well done good effort never got to to go the fourth one I simply go if I get this one done I've only got one left to go so I push hard and get that finished and when you can only when there's only one more to do you can always do one more and that's fantastic advice and again it fits within the whole idea that sometimes talk about or focusing on the processes and not the outcome I know Janice you'll be watching this this is Saturday now I've scare out on Thursday on Sunday said you've got a marathon to run obviously this won't come out in time for the marathon but I put in the comment below to focus on the Mars in front of you mile by mile focus on the processes of getting through each one of those miles rather than the outcome of the ultimate distance and whether that's the automat dry Athlon or whether it's 26.2 miles five K whatever focusing on the bits in front of you is massively massively important yeah that's really good advice to start with so a couple of questions came up or a couple points I suppose came up as part of the the initial question on the bulletproof group and really it's the the common theme is dealing with the self-talk and loads of us will be very familiar with the whole idea of that little quite often negative doubting little guy in the back or girl in the back of our minds saying you can't do this or you know you're not ready for this or you know all the training you've done all the stuff that's gone really really well you're still focusing on that one week that it wasn't so great okay it's just like YouTube comments it's just like comments on Facebook we all kind of get really hung up on that one guy who says yeah but blah blah blah not all the likes not all the good stuff it's exactly the same mentality isn't it really what do you do from your perspective to shut that up to shut that little voice in the back of your mind saying you can't do this mate we all have it no matter what it what we're done in the past and what we're going to do and the thing that I go back to every single time before I start to erase or before I do a challenges I know why I'm doing it knowing your why is so important because if you know why you're doing it when you get to those dark times when you get to mile 20 your marathon whatever it is and you're struggling and you think why am I doing this you go back to the reason whether it's amazing raising money for charity whether it's you're running with a friend whether it's you're challenging yourselves or guys as a dog just down that's what we like whether it's your challenge yourself that you wanted to try to chase something that you never thought you could knowing your why is extremely important so when I go out of my challenges and I'm got a mountain to climb quite literally or I've got you I've cycled 200 kilometres and I've only got 200 to go and I'm halfway and I think this sucks what am i doing this why am I here well my job is to inspire others to get out of their comfort zone and live their life every single day and I think if I give up maybe someone who's watching me will give up in a further challenge so that's what fuels me and that's my wire so remember before you sign up to something call when you do and before you get to the start line know the reason why you're there and keep that in mind for when you get to these type these dark times and the tough times and consider that definitely I know some of you guys in the group as well have mentioned that you've got children's or whether it's sons daughters who you've said that you're now so proud of them but also proud of yourself for sticking with the running because now they're doing races now they followed your lead it's all those little things so whether it's charity whatever it is whether it's running a friend placing a friend around a marathon something like that there's always a wine if you can reflect on that that's absolutely huge and definitely and again that kind of begins to address the thirst of the mid race doubts as well what to suppose expand on that a little bit it's a question that Sarah asked about how to shut up those mid race doubts that appear in your ear which is very much the same kind of thing where do you focus your so we focus the philosophical side of things in terms of knowing your why but what about focusing in terms of the physical what about focusing in terms of my legs my legs are killing me what do you do to beat to beat that game yeah it's it's very big in the sports psychology field and we didn't talk about when your legs are hurting or when you're struggling inside focus on the external so we're here in a lovely park so if I'm running through here and my legs are burning and I construct I'm struggling to take each step I will get out of my own skin and focus on my surroundings okay and it's a lovely sunny day and you're running stop thinking about your body and thinking about wow look at this the birds are chirping look at the flowers look at this beautiful coastline and running along something like that now we can flip that around when it's pouring with rain and we don't really want to be in the surroundings let's focus on within and let's focus on family let's focus on friends let's focus on that training session you did on a beach in the Caribbean that one time when you were running focus on that not in the dreary UK when you're running in in the rain so think of it is externally focusing and also internally focusing but flip them around when you're struggling with one or the other cool yeah that's great advice and of course you've got the extra insert done of internal or external focusing you've you've got a little the propeller so you might be wondering why this guy wearing these hats you want to take him seriously come on I don't take myself seriously but maybe you should so the reason why I wear this it was actual mutual friend of ours iron Tosh okay - Jemaine yeah I was doing 100 miler and she saw this in the shop she said you should wear this for you for your next race a bit of fun yeah so I said yeah okay I put it on it's actually really comfortable but what I began to realize when I started wearing at training people would even get engaged with me kids would smile adults would smile people would nod and say nice hat okay so I'm running doing 30 40 50 kilometer training runs and how do you fit and how did I feel when people smiled at me intrinsically I got a boost I got a lift in energy and I thought wow this feels really good so I continued to wear it and I would smile and people would approach me and say wow that's really cool hat where'd you get it from well that's really cool and the kids would give me high fives so I got a boost mentally because it was a point of contact with other people that I would come across and it would be a laughing point for everyone and clearly I don't take myself too seriously so I would laugh - so I got a psychological boost and it works vice versa when I would run past someone I could see that they were having a really tough time in the race or even just during a training run and I would smile or not and I'd see the Hat and they would smile and I knew that they would help them at least for the next kilometre or two and that's the reason why I wear the hat every time now when I run I've never asked you that and that's actually really really interesting I think we're in such a introspective sport a sport where we perhaps often take ourselves a little bit too seriously I know some of my videos looking back Jesus they can be pretty damn dry so to get that kind of idea that's that's inspired I like that and actually be able to feed off that positivity that's brilliant I hope that's helped a lot of people watching this definitely be good to do some more stuff in the future I know that you've got a big challenge coming up we were talking about that but it's all very hush-hush for now so when we can say more about that we'll all say more about that but yeah of them that mate thank you very much no puzzle we'll speak to you soon bye now

Channel: James Dunne

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Keywords: Run without Stopping, how to run longer without getting tired, Mentally Tough, Distance Running, Marathon, Half Marathon, Mental Imagery, Want it, Race Map, Toughness, Mental Strength, James Dunne, KineticRev, Kinetic Revolution, running motivation, Luke Tyburski, Endurance Adventurer, Running, Triathlon, Training, Exercise, Jogging, Marathon Training, Half Marathon Training, mental toughness

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Length: 11min 10sec (670 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 11 2016