Dr. Jason Karp

How Running Like an Animal Makes us Human

Jason Karp

Talk Summary: Somewhere between chasing other animals for food and clicking a mouse to purchase a toaster oven on Amazon.com, we stopped living a physical life. But human existence and experience are physical, just like for all other animals. How Running Like an Animal Makes Us Human breaks apart the mind-body dualism that places the mind ahead of the body and treats it as the body-mind dependence that places the body ahead of the mind, explaining that when you train your Body from the outside in, rather than from the inside out, profound changes occur to your Brain, which stimulate your Mind and your approach to life

Speaker Bio: Jason Karp, PhD, MBA, is an award-winning run coach, exercise physiologist, author of 12 books and more than 400 articles, and speaker. He is founder and CEO of the women’s-specialty run coaching company Kyniska Running. A competitive runner since sixth grade, Jason quickly learned how running molds us into better, more deeply conscious people, just as the miles and interval workouts mold us into faster, more enduring runners. He is the 2011 IDEA National Personal Trainer of the Year and two-time recipient of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition Community Leadership award. His REVO₂LUTION RUNNING™ certification has been obtained by coaches and fitness professionals in 25 countries.