Tina Muir, Author at Running For Real

402 posts, 44

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Michael Gervais BONUS Episode: Handling Panic and Anxiety

March 23, 2020

There is a lot of stress, fear, anxiety, overwhelm in our world right now. We have no idea what the future will look like, and that can be hard for us to function, especially when we are all told to stay inside our homes, which can make things even more intense. I knew there was…

5 Workouts to Easily Add Variety to Your Running, Even When You Are Not Training For a Race

March 23, 2020

Tina Muir

UPDATE: I actually wrote this before COVID19 turned our lives upside down. I have left the article mostly as is, but this time more than ever is a good time to try these out. As none of us have any idea when our next races will be, these will keep your fitness up without taking…

Coronavirus Special Report: What Do Runners Need To Know and How to Modify Training

March 15, 2020

Tina Muir

Special report episode on Coronavirus. I interviewed Dr Emily Stoneman, an Infectious Disease Specialist working at the University of Michigan, to ask her all the questions we have been wondering, and then addressed what to do as runners. Emily has been working 18 hour days, but gave us almost an hour of her time to…

4 Workouts to Include in Marathon Training (If Your Life Doesn’t Fit into a Schedule)

March 9, 2020

Tina Muir

Just signed up for your next (or even first!) marathon? How exciting! Other than the chunk of your hard earned money that is no longer with you, everything about this period feels good. It brings on an endorphin rush of its own, and you start to envision the possibilities of what future you can accomplish.…

How To Learn To Love Your Body

March 2, 2020

Tina Muir

Learn to love your body. Sounds so simple, but we all know, it’s not. It should be something we do automatically. Deep down we know how much our body does for us. We know it helps us to breathe and stay alive, carry children in our arms, give and receive hugs that can mean the…

8 Productive Things For Runners To Do While Waiting or Traveling

February 24, 2020

Tina Muir

We love to run. It is our freedom, our self care time, our breath of fresh air in a world of never-ending to do lists and rushing from one place to the next…or lets be real, one thought to the next. We love our running, we want to get better and learn more about it,…

Signs You Are Pushing Your Body Too Far

February 17, 2020

Tina Muir

We live in a go go go world. The busier you are, the better. Who cares if you feel tired, that’s life, get on with it. It feels like everyone around you is cramming more into their morning than you get done in a day, so why are you complaining? Even if you know deep…

What Integrity Means to Me (Why BodyHealth Perfect Amino is still in my life)

December 2, 2019

Tina Muir

If you have followed me for more than about 10 minutes, you will know that my word is very important. My integrity, honesty, ability to speak my truth is something I hold close. I have turned down big paychecks many times because I just could not get behind the product (one in particular by the…

Best Gifts for Runners: 2019 Holiday Gift Guide (with coupon codes) -R4R 161

November 29, 2019

Tina Muir

We are told running is a free sport, that there is no barrier to entry, and although that is true, there are sure a lot of runner gadgets and products runners need, or more realistically, want. If you need a few gift ideas for the runner in your life, I hope this gift guide comes…

Ali Butler Glenesk: Find Your Confidence Spark -R4R 155

November 1, 2019

Tina Muir

Looking for the positives can be difficult when you fail. When we don’t achieve what we set out for, success doesn’t seem like something we can claim. But it doesn’t have to be that way. How successful we feel isn’t measured by what we do. It is measured by how we define success. The beauty…

Shannon Osika: Taking Down The Mental Barrier Takes Down The Physical Barrier -R4R 154

October 25, 2019

Tina Muir

The Olympic standard time for a women’s 1500-meter race is 4:04.2. That was the time that Shannon Osika had been eyeing for quite some time before she changed plans at the end of her European tour to include one more race in Poland. To give you some insight as to how fast that is, let’s…

Mirna Valerio: If You Want To Learn How Your Body Works, You Gotta Use It -R4R 152

October 18, 2019

Tina Muir

Whose opinions really matter to you? If you were to start a project or set out after a goal that you’ve always wanted to do but have been scared for one reason or another, who would encourage you? Who would have your back? Who would tell you that you don’t know what you’re doing? These…

Be Confident For Your Next Race

September 30, 2019

Tina Muir

When you are coming out of the deep heavy training, race day is just a few weeks away, you NEED your mind to help you, to tell you it IS possible and you CAN do this mammoth task ahead. Instead, this is a time when our heads can mess with us. Doubt, fear, and paranoia…

AfterShokz Review and Thoughts

March 18, 2019

Tina Muir

Boston Marathon is less than a month away and it is funny to think about training for a marathon in this different place that I am in. Marathons used to be these GRAND events, that I would tailor my life around for months prior. I would place immense pressure on the workout days, feeling that…

Stretching VS. Foam Rolling: Is There an Ideal Pre-exercise Warm-up?

March 11, 2019

Tina Muir

Many of you LOVED my interview with the absolutely wonderful Tom Michaud. He always leaves me speechless with his knowledge and research on topics that runners are just so confused about. Tom kindly offered to write up articles on a monthly basis to give us the summary of what he has found on topics that…

Let’s Celebrate The Women Who Inspire

March 4, 2019

Tina Muir

International Women’s Day. A day that celebrates women making changes and bringing our rights closer to where they should be. For me, International Women’s Day is a day to think about those women who have inspired me. Of course, I know there are many, many women who have sacrificed, fought, relentlessly pursued fair treatment for…

EPISODE 100: Tina Muir and Sarah Crouch -R4R 100

February 1, 2019

Tina Muir

Somehow it is here, episode 100 of the Running For Real Podcast, and today, you have a special episode to celebrate that. I thought about bringing on a big time guest, but that has been done by every other podcast, and one thing about Running For Real is that it is exactly that, REAL. So,…

Baby Led Weaning (Baby Led Feeding)

December 10, 2018

Tina Muir

Quite a few people have asked me lately about the way we started Bailey on solid foods, as knowing when you can start giving your baby solid food (and what that even means), along with which baby foods to start with can be really confusing. I wanted to create this baby solid food guide to…

Siri Lindley: Love Your Life, You Deserve it- R4R 090

December 7, 2018

Tina Muir

The Joy of Being a Vulnerable Runner There are a handful of emotions and needs that all people have in common. We tend to seek out love, joy, safety and success while attempting to avoid embarrassment, pain, sorrow, and defeat. Often times the things we crave can only come by way of sacrifice. Mastering a…

Meg Steffey-Schrier and Jessi Haggerty : Look in the Mirror and Love What Your Body Can Do – R4R 089

November 30, 2018

Tina Muir

Running and Eating: Nutrition, Dieting, and Eating Disorders Let’s get this out in the open right from the get go. The wonderful world of eating is not always so wonderful for runners. Whether you are an elite runner, a new runner looking to lose some pounds, or one of the many runners in between, making…

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