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Determining the best weekly mix of running and recovery days.
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Finish 2020 strong,ready to make 2021 a breakout year. Many people back off of fitness during the holidays, but that is a mistake. Be consistent, and use your running as therapy to help you through this tough time. Plan now to crush 2021. Use this last month to build momentum, and you will start the next year with the best possible attitude, ready for the challenge of a pandemic that will be with us for a while.
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For any beginner runner, knowing how to handle certain aspects of training and being prepared for challenges will make it possible to avoid pitfalls, even failures. This knowledge will provide the confidence needed to manage inevitable setbacks and take problems in stride much like the veteran runner is able to do, ensuring success and continued momentum toward that goal of becoming a runner.
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This is it! You’ve been learning about what to do for nine days. Think of this as graduation day, the day you get the last, but most critical, piece of the puzzle. Today, you find out exactly what you should do, and I mean you, personally, should do on Day 1 of your running journey. Today, is your diagnostic run.
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Weight loss – or management – plays a role in the life of virtually every runner. Either they start running to lose weight or they’ve already lost weight, and they want to become a runner to help them maintain that weight loss. Too, some runners run because they’re worried that their weight will gradually creep up if they don’t get lots of exercise to offset the calories of the food they consume.
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When beginner runners don’t succeed, it’s usually the result of one of two problems:
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Many beginner runners don’t warm-up because they think the only reason to warm-up is to prepare to run fast; they know they don’t run fast, so they skip the warm-up. That is a big mistake, but I absolutely understand how a beginner runner might arrive at the conclusion that, for them, a warm-up is unnecessary. You must realize that it’s all relative. For you, walking is the appropriate warm-up.
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The single most common beginner runner complaint I hear is that they can’t breathe. Often new runners say they struggle to breathe because they feel like they’re breathing through a straw; they say they just can’t get enough air, and that’s a miserable sensation, right?
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It’s not unusual for coaches of beginner runners to disregard form in lieu of total emphasis on building endurance. I believe the opposite is the far better, more effective route,
The single most common beginner runner complaint I hear is that they can’t breathe. Often new runners say they struggle to breathe because they feel like they’re breathing through a straw; they say they just can’t get enough air, and that’s a miserable sensation, right?
If you’ve ever been in that situation, you will find answers in this episode. That may be the number 1 problem that you know you must overcome to be a success, to be able to build endurance and, one day, run for miles, in comfort. It just makes sense, that if you can’t breathe, you can’t run very far, and you can’t be comfortable for even a few minutes. So, this is a problem we must fix and do it the right away.
For a more extensive discussion of this topic, please check out this earlier podcast episode:
BRV 008: How to Breathe When You Run
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