How to Avoid Overtraining For Runners

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Author: Paul Scott

How to avoid overtraining for runners.

The hard/easy rule of training will take you a long way towards avoiding overtraining. It involves taking a rest or easy day after every hard workout in order to allow you body to regenerate. The easy day following your hard day of training is absolutely essential for the regeneration of your body: your muscles, bones and blood cells and connective tissue immediately begin to heal themselves following your hard run. Some people may even need two easy days between hard workouts in order to complete this process of regeneration.

Killer Quarter Mile Intervals

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

If you are like most runners, you do not care for intervals. For me it is the most dreaded workout of the week. Today was a reminder as to why I hate interval training. Todays workout was supposed to be 6 quarter mile intervals. I started off with a 5 minute warmup, then went right into the intervals. I would run a quarter and jog a quarter.

Now, I did this for 4 quarters and then I was dead. I dropped the next two down to .15 mile intervals, so basically chopped them in half. I was smoked, and after looking ahead on the training schedule, by week 8, I am supposed to be up to 12 quarter mile intervals.

Heart Rate Training Optimizes Your 5k Training Program

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

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Are you looking for a 5k training program? When you start looking you see many program offering beginner programs and advanced programs. What is interesting is that most beginner programs are too many miles for the average beginner. The key to effective 5k cardio plans is for every person to have their own heart rate profile. With optimal heart rate training every workout will be optimized for the greatest impact for your results. Heart rate training is for advanced and beginners; the difference is the heart rate profile not using a heart rate monitor.