June 17, 2021
### Guest Quote
Scott Strool: [00:00:00]
There's some merit in these biomechanical devices. The stride does attaches to your foot and it gives you the power is one of the critical numbers that it reports, but a better watch. So if you're getting more than a basic watch, you'll get power out of it
Kevin Chang: [00:00:14]
And when people are looking at massage guns, I know, I know that there are a couple of things that they should be taking a look at. You know, obviously the number of heads or different types of heads stall force is one of those things. It's like, oh, when will the, the head actually stall? How much pressure are you allowed to put on it before? You know, it completely freezes up.
Bertrand Newson: [00:00:31]
And when you're coming off of a long, hard run or preparing for one. Ice bath is a good way to get your lower torso. So it helps you recover quicker to stay active versus, you know, when you're getting those hill repeats in or a long trail run along, you know, 15, 16, 18, 20 plus miler, it's going to help you get back to the game quicker.
### Start of the Episode [00:00:58]
Kevin Chang: [00:00:58]
Hello and welcome to the RaceMob podcast. This is episode number 5 3.
I'm Kevin entrepreneur technology and fitness nerd, and I'm joined by the head coach of RaceMob and master motivator, the incomparable Bertrand Newson.
All right. RaceMob crew. We are back for part two of our product recommendation series, and we're so thankful to welcome back to the program Scott Strool. Welcome back, Scott, how are things going?
Scott Strool: [00:01:25]
Things are going great. I got my run on nice and showered and ready to talk about more products with you guys.
Kevin Chang: [00:01:31]
Awesome. Awesome. Well, I know last time we left off with the essentials and those were the things you absolutely needed just to even get started. And now we're starting to get into some of the fun parts. So some of the things that you may pick up, some of the purchases that you may want to get to this Amazon prime day.
### Watches and Trackers [00:01:47]
Let's start with some of the things that will help you initially and in your initial runs, and I know watches or some sort of GPS tracker, or some sort of tracker, this is oftentimes, you know, the thing that people pick up, it helps them stay motivated.
It helps them keep track of, you know, not only the distances that they've run, the paces that they're running a lot of these important metrics. So Scott, talk to us about what watch you, you wear, and yeah, if you have any insights on some of the best watches or things that we should keep an eye out for.
Scott Strool: [00:02:21]
As a beginner, you really just, the most important thing is that you're going to have something that's going to be telliing you where you've been. So it's basically going to track your miles, be able to calculate the time that it took to do that. So what was the, the amount of time it took to run those miles, and then it's a calculation. The watch does that calculation for you to tell you the pace.
And what's important about that is when you work with a coach or if you just have a running plan, you want to be able to stick to that plan and run the specific amount of miles or a specific amount of time. It's a 30 minute run today, or it's a 5k run today. And to see if you're improving, you want to understand your pace. So the best way to do that is with a watch.
It's really funny to see people still running with phones, looking at holding their phone in their hand to see what their paces are. I mean, phones can do that because phones have GPS, but you know, the watch does a whole lot more than the phone does. It also will capture a basic watch, will catch your heart rate. So that's also important to know what your heart rate is at those paces.
The watch that I'm wearing today is the polar vantage. It's more of a triathlon watch. And I only say that because it has multiple sport modes, you can run bike, swim, climb, a mountain, play badminton, roller Derby, many things that I don't do. Ski, golf even is on here.
The watches have to have these profiles that are gonna allow you to capture more events that you're working on. But a basic watch Garmin this week. And I imagine we're going to see some sales and next week on prime day a basic watch from Garmin, is the new Garmin 55. Our listeners eshould probably look on YouTube for some good reviews on that product. It's gotten rave reviews and it's like at, at around a $200 price point and it does everything that a basic runner needs.
Bertrand Newson: [00:04:08]
Great insight, Scott.
Kevin Chang: [00:04:09]
Yeah, coach. What do you wear? Do you wear a watch? Well, we do run with my phone. Oftentimes I, I have an apple watch. I have an apple watch. Yeah. I'm that guy on that dude. I have, I have an apple watch, but it never connects. And I feel like every time I look down it doesn't work so well, but that's like the apple too.
So, you know, I haven't, I haven't upgraded yet. It's something I'll probably need to do at some point.
Bertrand Newson: [00:04:32]
I'm the dude who runs with two watches at times. I have the Nike watch. The apple watch, Nike branded, so it has Nike plus built into it. And also have this kind of basic level entry-level Garmin watch that does what Scott said there, it records time and distance uploads data to my smartphone. Then I can analyze the data.
Again, a very low price point. I think I got this off Amazon and it was refurbished for under 50, like 50 bucks. And it retailed for probably twice that so super value, very durable. And it gives me all the core data that I need as a runner. Very good for beginners.
And as Scott said, as we're talking about with Amazon prime day coming up, you're going to be some great deals going on with all types of watch brands across the board. So. Yeah. and I know a lot of our audience knows.
Kevin Chang: [00:05:22]
I bought a watch for my mom on the last Amazon prime day, was it, it was a Fitbit, I think, Vantage, and it has really helped her keep her steps up. And she's doing over 10,000 steps, sometimes even 20,000 steps every single day. So just that little wash that can be ultra motivational. So, fantastic for us to talk about.
### Earbuds and Listening Devices [00:05:42]
The next thing I have on the list for beginners.
I wa I love earbuds. I mean, I love to listen to music. I love to, have something in my ear, whether that be a podcast like this, or, you know, some, some music, some jams, some something to keep me motivated and go in, or an audio book sometimes I'll, I'll listen to an audio book as well. Do you guys have any favorites in terms of earbuds or things that you use while you're running?
Scott Strool: [00:06:07]
Absolutely. 99% of my runs. I'm going to have earbuds in. He ones that I've been using since they came out or the Jaybird Vista. Before that I had an a Jaybird run. And so this is my second round with, with Jay Bert's. They're great. They're light. So light that they don't, you can't even know when they fall out of your ear.
That's not a good thing, but you got to kind of just keep doing that every once in a while to make sure that they're in. And they, they, the battery power on those is amazing. They connect to my phone very quickly, but since we were just talking about watches and phones, you guys know, I really don't like running with my phone.
If I'm going to go somewhere where I want my wife to track me or someone to track me, if I'm going on a longer run, or if I'm going off my kind of a path, someone wants to know where I am, so I will keep my, watch my phone. Cause then we have a location services.
Bertrand Newson: [00:06:56]
Good.
Scott Strool: [00:06:57]
But when I connect, when I wanna run without my phone enough, I'm just doing a three mile around the block.
I use this little MP3 player, a Bluetooth MP3 player called the Mighty. M I G H T Y. And that syncs to your earbuds, the little thing that you notice about the size of a quarter and a, you can put like 600 songs on it.
Kevin Chang: [00:07:19]
Wow.
Scott Strool: [00:07:20]
So I went with that and my earbuds, unless I want to listen to an audio book or a RaceMob podcast, then I take my phone with me.
Kevin Chang: [00:07:27]
Coach, I know when we talked last year, you were not much of an earbuds person, not much of a music person, or are you supporting any earbuds these days or you go on sans?
Bertrand Newson: [00:07:37]
Some, some things never change. They may in the future. I mean, I'm, you know, if I'm not running with somebody, I just like to get immersed myself in the run itself.
So it is the extreme exception that I'm running with music. There have been maybe a handful of occasions when I've been out and about listening to a great RaceMob podcast or some of our guests who have their own podcast or YouTube channel, i. E. Scott.
But in most cases, I'm, I'm just soaking up the noise around me or kind of letting the thoughts in my own head kind of play out and get some time for myself as well.
So, but I do love music outside of running. You know, it's always music playing in the house all the time. So I'm learning here in this podcast on, you know maybe some gift options in the future. I may have to step my earbud game up.
Kevin Chang: [00:08:23]
Yeah. And I've been in the market for your ear buds. I really have. I know we, even, when we had Mike on, I asked him about earbuds and he had recommended the Jabras.
So I went out and got the Jabra elites, I think 85 T I wasn't a big fan of them. I'm not sure why. You know, I think there's some oddities with it. Just like when you remove it from the ear, it just shuts everything off. You can't actually like share earbuds with anybody else. I had an issue where one dropped out and I didn't know it. And then I couldn't find it for a while. When I finally found it, I couldn't turn them back on.
So I don't know. I wasn't in love with the job Braze. I've tried the Skull Candies. That's what, another one that I'm trying right now, but also not in love with it. I've got like a cheapo $40 pair that I found on Amazon that worked fine, but I'm not in love with the battery life of it.
So I'm still in shopping mode for earbuds right now. So I may go check out those Jaybirds I think I'll just go check out the Jaybirds I think let's see. Yeah. Mike also recommended PaMus. So I think that's another one that he had recommended, but I'm going to go check out those Jaybirds I think, I think they may work really well for me, so fantastic.
Bertrand Newson: [00:09:32]
It was on Instagram live a few weeks ago and I couldn't find my plugin earbuds for the iPhone. So I picked up a pair of. Earbuds and they were cheap JVC and I, and I've used them like twice, but the battery life on them was pretty good in my ear. They fit well. I don't have a photo of, or, you know, have them in my periphery, but yeah, just got to throw that out there. So.
Kevin Chang: [00:09:55]
Yeah. And, and maybe it's partly the difference between the active noise canceling. So the ANCs versus the, the ones that kind of just fit and plug your ear and cancel it and kill all of the noise.
So maybe it's just, I'm not used to the ANC ones or I'm not sure, but both the Skullcandy one and the one that Mike recommended, they were both ANC types of ear phones and maybe they just don't fit all that well.
They just felt a little bit loose. Like they would fall out all the time and in fact, one of them did fall out. So. I guess we'll keep trying. We'll keep trying. I'll see if I can make a recommendation at some point.
Scott Strool: [00:10:30]
Yup. The other thing that you could do to help them fall out is put on that RaceMob headband that's right.
The coach is right and it can't fall out. If you have your ears covered and you'll look cool doing it.
### Scales [00:10:40]
Kevin Chang: [00:10:40]
Awesome. Next on my list and it was something that we were recommended for beginners was a scale. So smart scale. I know that I use one, I think it's called that connects via Bluetooth to my phone so I can track, not only weight, but percentage, body, fat, bone weights, a couple of those things.
And I don't do it every day, but every once in a while I want to check in on, on how I'm doing and, and be conscious of that. Do you guys use any scales at home? Is that anything that you're looking at?
Scott Strool: [00:11:12]
So I will have to admit when you wrote scale. I didn't think of weighing myself and I ran upstairs and I got it.
I, shoe geek as we determined yesterday, I have a scale to weigh my shoes.
Kevin Chang: [00:11:24]
Ah.
Scott Strool: [00:11:25]
Every new pair, every new pair of shoes, I weigh it and I keep track of the weight of the shoe. So I don't have a recommendation for a shoe scale. Just go get the, no that works.
Bertrand Newson: [00:11:35]
Yes, I do have a couple of scales as you know, Kevin, the move you're like, what is going on?
Kevin Chang: [00:11:42]
How many scales do you need? You calibrate one to another what's going on here?
Bertrand Newson: [00:11:47]
And we have incorporated, on Wednesdays at Hammertime. So we have a couple of team members all voluntary. So I track performance. I track time trials for everybody. And sometimes people are looking to just get an idea maybe quarter to quarter, month to month, but first half the year, second half of the year, pre-race, training block versus closer up to training block and just tracking that.
And for me you know, being a six one sometimes, you know, in the one eight high one eighties too, you know, teetering around 200, it's important for me to see where I'm at. As I'm looking to tweak diet nutrition, and you know, we're, we're on the cusp of uh, a challenge that we, we had in February of this year.
That's, we'll be coming back the cut to crap challenge. So good opportunity to get familiar with where you are at. And always, as Scott mentioned with measuring time and distance, measuring scale weight is an important way, to see kind of touch, touch base and kind of where you're at. So.
Kevin Chang: [00:12:42]
Yeah, and in fact, when this podcast goes live, the Cut the Crap challenge will also be live.
I think we are launching the Cut the Crap challenge on the 17th. So 4:00 PM Pacific standard time. We're going to have a meetup with Tony julian. If you all remember, fantastic guest of the podcast has a really great challenge where we cut out some of the things that we should be cutting out of our diet for 14 day challenge. So that'll be a lot of fun. We'll kick that off a lot of information up online for those that want to join us.
And last time we ran the challenge back in February, we saw some tremendous, incredible, incredible results from the community and the community has just banded together and helped each other throughout that whole journey.
so it was a lot easier to cut crap when, when others are giving you fantastic recipes when they're giving you encouragement day after day. So really looking forward to that and that'll be live right when this podcast episode goes live as well.
Scott Strool: [00:13:35]
Excellent. I got a week or so to finish my ice cream sandwiches.
Kevin Chang: [00:13:38]
Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Well, as you guys know, I'm going to Hawaii this week, so I just hope that I don't gain too much weight,
Bertrand Newson: [00:13:45]
Papaya, pineapple, alcohol free muay thais. Soak it up, man. Soak it up.
### Fitness Planner [00:13:52]
Kevin Chang: [00:13:52]
There you go. Well, another gift that we had talked about before was a fitness planner. So some way for you to track your upcoming.
You know, runs kind of schedule things in have some structure around your training plans. There's a number of these different fitness journals running journals. I've seen them in the past. I've used a couple in the past. They make a great gift for Amazon prime day. So if you have a runner in your life that has a birthday coming up, this may be something of interest, you know, you can track all sorts of dynamic warmups to do beforehand, you can take a look at different stretches.
You can really kind of tweak a lot of different things and then just keep track of every single run. So whether that's the physical or, you know, I think that there may be some online versions of this as well, but that might be something interesting to get the beginning of runner, get the motivated.
Scott Strool: [00:14:42]
Yeah, I liked that it has tips into too, so it could have stretches and a pre-workout plan right in the book. So that's a benefit to having a physical book to look at.
Bertrand Newson: [00:14:52]
And I was gifted one for my birthday, paper base, which is really cool. And you know, I like to try to make the best use of my time. And so I'd like to integrate a lot of that electronically, but having it paper-based as much as I'm a good note taker. Great gift idea, Casey. So you two could end up with the ease and in the future, so good stuff.
And we thought talked about giving maybe as a swag item, in the future. So stay tuned. RaceMob community.
### Things for the Intermediate Runners [00:15:21]
Kevin Chang: [00:15:21]
Let's get down to what some intermediate runners may need. So I know that there's a lot of difference when you start going from a three mile or a 5k run to when you start getting into that 10 K distance and then the half marathon distance, you know, you're out there on the road for much, much longer.
You need to start thinking about hydration. You need to start thinking a little bit more about, you know, Nutrition and other things. So let's get into some of the things that you guys may recommend for you know, for people kind of who are now more enthusiastic, we are running now is starting to go longer, further.
What are some of the things that you guys may recommend or that are in your arsenal?### Hydration [00:16:00]
Scott Strool: [00:16:00]
Yeah, I would say that if you're going to be out there for an hour or more, especially now the time that, you know, the season that we're in and for you guys, it's always summertime. So plan your hydration.
You can't just think, oh, I'll just drink when I get back, because dehydration is real. I think everybody here on this call has experienced it and it's, it feels it's sick, sickening.
And hydration vest either a vest that you could wear over your, on your back, or I also really like these hydration belts that it just goes around your waist and little has little pockets for small bottles. If you're going out for two hours, you only need about 20, 30 ounces of liquid. So you don't need a whole vest that you don't need a five liter vest if you're just going out for an hour or two.
But so those hydration would be the number one thing I would get if you're planning on running from an hour.
### Safety Gear [00:16:50]
Bertrand Newson: [00:16:50]
Yeah. Well said, Scott. Yeah. And to piggyback on items for intermediate runners, depending on what time of day you run, if that's, you know, early in the morning when you know the sun is not out or you're running, post-work when the sun is not out having some type of safety, reflective gear, safety lights, some level of illumination, and always err on the side of safety.
Kevin Chang: [00:17:13]
Which brands and which gear do you use? Cause I know that you've tried out a couple of different brands for safety lights.
Bertrand Newson: [00:17:19]
Yeah. Nathan has some Nathan brand. They have, you know, they have hydration vest, but they also have a brand of portable safety lights as well. So that's, that's worked for me in the past and some other fellow running teammates.
Scott Strool: [00:17:31]
In the winter time we run, we I'm going to Tuesday night run club, just like you guys have your hammer time.
We'd run at 6:30 PM on on Tuesdays and in the wintertime, six 30, it's already pitch black, very dark. And I purchased a couple of years ago. The Nox gear light up vest at B links. It's about, it's very light. It's got these little tubes in it that light up and it's got a blinking component in the back, runs on two AAA batteries. So it's easy to make sure that you always have, have it working.
You can't feel it when you're running and that's, that's the light system that I use when I run at night Nox gear, it's always on sale and probably will be on sale again next week.
Kevin Chang: [00:18:11]
Nox like N O X?
Scott Strool: [00:18:13]
N O X .
Kevin Chang: [00:18:14]
Yeah. And I know I have some Nathan for my hydration bills and stuff.
There's either the one that kind of sits across the back or the like multiple small bottles and whatnot. You know, they made some fantastic gear. Just gotta make sure that they're sized, right. That they're sitting on top of your hips, nothing worse than chaffing.
### Chaffing [00:18:32]
Which is the other thing that I was going to get to too is, is when you start getting into that half marathon distance, and you're out there for awhile, you want to make sure that you have a good anti chaffing stick.
So there's a couple of these and people don't, don't tell you too much or you may have to, yeah. We don't want you to have to learn the hard way
Bertrand Newson: [00:18:49]
to have a once or twice that isn't.
Kevin Chang: [00:18:51]
So a little stick of that. It almost looks like a, you know, like an antiperspirant stick, you know, you do want to get your nipples, you want to get like inner thighs outside of the feet inside of the feet sometimes. Sometimes in the armpit area or on the sides of that you know, just, just make sure use it it'll make you more comfortable too.
Oh yeah.
Scott Strool: [00:19:12]
I screamed the loudest I ever did. I imagine. Last fall, I went for a long run with and it was cool. So I had long I had tight, running tights on and I came along and got in the shower and scream so loud that my wife thought that I just butchered a cat or something.
And she was a little bit scared about how, how I yell. So you don't want to, you don't want to wake the dead, get the two.
Bertrand Newson: [00:19:35]
Good call, good call.
Scott Strool: [00:19:37]
It's worth it.
### Compression Socks and Sleeves [00:19:38]
Kevin Chang: [00:19:38]
And I think one thing that we alluded to last time is some of the compression socks or compression sleeves, the calf sleeves, those types of things. I know that when I start getting to longer distances, these do help me a little bit, both with the run itself and recovery afterwards.
So I don't know if you guys use compression sleeves on your longer runs or, kind of, kind of leave it as is.
Scott Strool: [00:20:00]
Yeah, I certainly do. I was graced with the very muscly calves. My wife says I would have been an awesome Pilgrim, back in the day. And I'm glad you guys got that. So they do get sore. So I the brand that I use is two, two times you or 2XU, you. It's, it's a neoprene or a polyester it's very comfortable and it just, it's a little bit of compression. It just keeps the muscles from moving around a lot. So again, on long runs or if I'm sore, I will wear the compression sleeves on my calves.
Bertrand Newson: [00:20:33]
Yeah. Great brand, very popular with triathletes. Also CEP and pro compression either compression, calf sleeves, arm sleeves, and we talk about sizing very important, especially for your ordering online.
To look at the directions and make sure that you are ordering the right size. If you have the opportunity to measure your calves or comforts or arms or conference important, because I know of runners that have just picked up on the fly and was wearing a compression garment that was too small for them, and it can restrict it, their blood flow during long run and it can be debilitating so very, very important, to make sure that the sizing is right with compression garments, especially on your lower limbs.
Scott Strool: [00:21:18]
We want to compress not constrict.
Kevin Chang: [00:21:20]
Yes. Yeah. Cool. Very cool. And I know, yeah, I haven't used arm sleeves before, but people swear by them. And I know when we had. Dean on, Dean, even in his book the runner's high he talks about like forgetting his arm sleeves on one of the it during Western states and that having just a dramatic impact for his whole race.
So, yeah, maybe something to, to play around with, especially if you're in warmer, temperatures, hotter, temperatures you know, if the sun's beating down you know, how can you use arm sleeves for shade or for cooling effect. Those types of things. I know people also use arm sleeves sometimes when it's cold and...
Bertrand Newson: [00:21:59]
Just to keep them warm to me. Right? Yeah. That works yet. The versatility.
Scott Strool: [00:22:03]
They're really great. If you're trail running and you're going to possibly run between trees, sometimes you'll get caught by a branch in a trail sleeve could save you from getting a cut on your arm.
### For Longer Distance Runners [00:22:12]
Kevin Chang: [00:22:12]
Let's talk a little, a little bit about, you know, those going for the marathon distance, the ultra distance you know, those going further. And maybe some of these like advanced techniques, some of these things that are trendy or, or, you know, on edge that may help them train for those distances and, and get there quicker.
### Data [00:22:30]
So one thing, I guess, that I haven't done a lot of research in, but I know a lot of the big YouTube stars have at least tried out or at least talked about some of these are some of the newer training methodologies. So either whoop, which I think Amazon has like a whoop brand bracelet, I don't know too much about.
I know that it tries to track your body composition along with other stuff. And then I know that one, that Mike uses a stride. So I think stride some sort of foot pod or something, maybe along with like an online subscription or whatnot. I don't know if you guys have heard too much about these or, or know know much about them.
Bertrand Newson: [00:23:07]
I've heard. Yeah, I've heard of stride. I know that are friends with 80 20 endurance. Their ambassador crew, has access and a percentage off. Understand the principles behind the technology in measuring, like it's, you know, your, your stride rate, cadence, stride, length, and all that, others, that data.
If you're really looking to elevate and looking to shave off seconds or minutes at that elite level, or at the longer distance, because it's all about efficiency and that type of data, it will allow you to fine tune your running mechanics. Make some, some measurable improvements.
Scott Strool: [00:23:42]
There's some merit in these biomechanical devices. The stride does attaches to your foot and it gives you the power is one of the critical numbers that it reports, but a better watch. So if you're getting more than a basic watch, you'll get power out of it. The coral swatch at, at my polar watch also has a power value that comes out.
But also important is cadence is an extremely important metric that you're going to want to track. And that's hard to do with a watch. You usually need to put something on.
I purchased this a few years ago, it was called the Garmin running dynamics pod. It's a little clip and it goes on the back of your shorts and it basically can tell which way your, your body is angled.
One interesting thing it knows about is percentage of time on your left or right leg. So it knows if you're favoring a leg and it could tell you if you're hurt, it'll say, Hey, you're 60% on the left leg and only 40% on the right. So I know that I'm struggling. If I see those numbers far off, not a good on trails cause trails, you're going to be left and right all the time.
But if you're running a flat pavement, I'll use this too for a better tracking of my cadence, as well as my left right. Foot
Kevin Chang: [00:24:48]
balance. Wow. That's really cool. So it's, it's called a Garmin pod?
Scott Strool: [00:24:53]
Running dynamics pod.
Kevin Chang: [00:24:54]
And does that connect with then your Strava account or other accounts, or.
Scott Strool: [00:24:59] It kept it connects to your watch and the, those additional details will get uploaded to Strava.
### Heart Rate Monitors [00:25:04]
Kevin Chang: [00:25:04]
Wow. Wow. That's really cool. What about heart rate monitors? I know that's another thing that people take a look at. Do you guys have any preferences? Have you used any in the past or use any today?
Scott Strool: [00:25:14]
Yeah. I got one, a few weeks ago since I got the polar vantage watch. I bought the holders. They have an H 9 and the H 10.
The H 10 was just I went for the little less expensive one that it was on sale. So I got the H nine. They still sell the H seven, but the battery power I understand is not very good on that. So you're going to be replacing the battery very often. So you might be saving money, but you're going to have to buy these little. 2032 size little batteries too often.
Now they work really well. So as soon as you pair it with your watch, if the watch sees it in near you, when you start running, it automatically turns on. And I've noticed that it is a little bit, I can't say it's more accurate, but it's different than the optical heart rate sensor on my wrist.
So my heart rate is a little bit lower when I wear the heart rate monitor. Then when I get it from the wrist, I have two numbers, which one's correct. I'm going to say that the strap is probably more accurate because it's, it's only an inch away from my heart where this is not anywhere near my heart.
Bertrand Newson: [00:26:10]
Good, got ye with my apple watch. It has a heart rate monitor and also has a built-in EKG as well. So, you know, it's interesting that people are, you know, have to be mindful of that. It's good. Metrics for me personally. So I'm a big fan of that.
Kevin Chang: [00:26:27]
Yeah, I know I used to use a polar as well. I might be in the market for new heart rate monitor, as well as some point in time height.
I just got one of these exercise bikes and they connect to a heart rate monitor too. And I'm like, oh, I should probably track that. I mean, I, there is some really good evidence on, you know, heart rate based training and, you know, we talk about, you know, what level should you be at for this polarized training, you know, at a fast pace at a, you know, a 90% plus heart rate or you know, should you pull it back from the majority of her runs?
It's nice to know what your heart rate is to, to know that level of effort, because it's so individualized and it's so individualized, even on the day because of the temperature, because of how your body's feeling, because of, you know, all sorts of other things that sometimes are often heart rate is the best measure of a level of effort.
So, interesting, interesting, to know.
Scott Strool: [00:27:17]
Tracking your heart rate zones is an important aspect when you're at this level, because it could be just a couple seconds off of, off of that mile pace. One technical aspect. When you're buying these heart rate monitors, they, they sit they expose a frequency and the two that they use are Bluetooth or something called AMT+.
So you need to know that the watch, the receiver end supports the type of transmission that the heart rate monitor is going to put out. Most of them will do Bluetooth and, and plus, one or the other sometimes they'll do both.
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Kevin Chang: [00:27:50]
Good to know. Absolutely. All right. The one that we wanted to highlight here we were fortunate enough to have Bree Lambert up on our podcast a number of months ago. And so one of the tools that we got to test before Bree came on was the Running Pods.
She's an entrepreneur. They are fantastic devices. We got to train with them for quite a while. I even have a YouTube video on, you know, what I like. And, even the thing that I w I wanted them to improve, they were able to improve, and that was heavier running pods. So they have now the mercury running pods.
So fantastic device Coach, talk to us a little bit about your experience with running pilots.
Bertrand Newson: [00:28:28]
Yeah, one, I like how they fit in my hand,
they don't move around the weight. I mean, the ones I have are one pound and they do make me more conscious of arm swing, that I'm running my center mass.
I think there are studies that, you know, you do get a greater calorie burn. And if you're burning more calories by carrying an extra two pounds and pound in each hand, that's a good thing. A couple of of our athletes have picked some up as well. And they've also given us some very good reviews and Kevin, your online review of this product was fantastic.
One of our more popular, YouTube videos ever produced. So I highly recommend and good call on your part to suggest a higher weight for some people. Then that would be beneficial as well. But yeah, I'm a fan of, I probably, you know, when I was running pre broken foot, okay. Probably half of my middle distance runs during the weekday. I would always have the run pods with me.
Kevin Chang: [00:29:22]
I think the benefit that I didn't realize when we got them would be how conscious you are of arm swing and how it improves, really your running form, you know. Your arms, they have so much impact on your momentum, on your ability to run quicker run faster, you know, making sure that they're in time, making sure that you're, you're like shooting back with the correct arm all the time.
So just that consciousness of where your arms should be. That helps quite a bit. And yeah, I mean, they did talk a little bit about the calorie burn and an increase in calorie burn and, and all that. But to me, it was all about, wow. It really does make you conscious about running form and where your, you know, where your upper body is.
Bertrand Newson: [00:30:06]
So. And if somebody steps up on you, you can knock somebody out with them too.
Where does that person have a little grenade? So there is a safety aspect to it as well.
Kevin Chang: [00:30:19]
So that's true. That's true.
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