Running for Beginners
Posts by: Gunner Watson
Running shoes are very important for beginners because they aid our running, and make it more pleasurable. If it wasn’t for running shoes, running would be practically free. Our shoes are important for injury prevention and should be replaced every 400 – 600 miles, in my experience the actual figure is closer to 400 miles. [...]
Continue Reading →Can the treadmill replace outdoor running? This is a debate that continues to burn within the running community. As long as you train within your training pace, you will still reap the same benefits. However, the indoor environment is significantly different to the outdoors.
Firstly, you will not encounter the same degree of resistance or winds, be [...]
Continue Reading →So, how often should you run? Well, almost everybody knows that you should exercise for 30 minutes a day. That’s 3 hours and 30 minutes a week. Don’t worry about this rule as a beginner; you need to build your body up to running 30 minutes a day first. I would never recommend running every day of [...]
Continue Reading →There are too many benefits of exercise to list here, and it seems like every week a new study
finds more reasons to exercise. The benefits of exercise can be very motivational for beginners, so I would advise you to read through the list. It is important to remember that not only does exercise [...]
This must be the most complicated subject to write about but also the most important one, especially for beginners. It seems that there are hundreds of diets around for runners all of which contradict each other, but all of which have a little logic. It’s hard to know what to believe. The general consensus is [...]
Continue Reading →Hydrating is fairly simple but often overlooked by beginners. If you don’t like water, find a work around: use flavoring. Hydration is important for a number of reasons: to produce sweat, to stabilize body temperature and to allow key processes to take place in the body. Most people know that the average person should drink [...]
Continue Reading →Illness and injury can be the two most frustrating factors about running. You build a good base, get into the rhythm,
and then you wake up with the flu. Good eating habits will help, and so too will running. Straight after
a workout, your immune system will be weakened, with the number of [...]
Injury is not nice, quite often not running is worse than the injury itself. However, injury can be avoided following the laws mentioned in section one (i.e. the 10% rule) and running on more forgiving surfaces. Also, make sure you wear the correct footwear. My last injury most likely surfaced because I couldn’t control [...]
Continue Reading →A lot of runners don’t know much about this subject, and as a male, I will try to be as informative as I can.
Many women fear that running will harm their unborn child, not to mention what relatives and friends think!
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) state that running [...]
This can be a very confusing topic for beginners, and I will talk about what most runners agree on, rather than the minority opinions. Some runners believe stretching and warming up are synonymous. I disagree, as would many other runners. Warming up is simply a transition from your resting heart rate to your training heart [...]
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