Global Sports: Train To Increase Your Running Endurance

Friday, October 8, 2010

Train To Increase Your Running Endurance

By Herman Valdamirin

Whether you are a beginner or a veteran in running, there is no argument in the fact that endurance is one of the main key ingredients in winning races. No matter how many years you have been running what is important is that you know what you want to achieve from your running training, and what you are going to do to achieve it.

Increase Your Endurance With Strength Training

A large amount of runners are sceptical when strength training is mentioned in there regular training, this is because there is a popular belief that building muscle slows you down. However you should always remember that runners will never get the endurance they want to successfully finish races without strength training. Strength training is one of the most effective ways of boosting your running endurance.

By completing your strength training you will become more of an efficient runner. The training will teach you how to deal with the stress that comes from fatigue, which without results in alot of runners stopping before the finish. More endurance equals less fatigue which means you can focus more on your running form.

Warm Up Before Running

Never stretch before a run without completing warm-up exercises first, the reason for this is because when your muscles are cold they are prone to over-stretching. This is not a good start to your running, the correct way to prepare yourself for a run is ten minutes of warm-up exercises or walking. This warms up muscles up allowing a good time to stretch them, this will results in a better running performance as your body's muscles are prepared for the race.

Running, One Step at a Time

So you've trained hard for your up-coming race, one way to ruin all your hard work would be to start the race of to fast. Remember the pace you had while training, running a pace your not used to can result in your injury and decrease your running performance. One way of doing this is observing the pace of other runners, finding someone or a group around your pace and sticking to them.

Boost Your Endurance

Always have a feel of your body. Know when you need to slow down and rest running for awhile. This is the best way to make your endurance stronger. If at one point, you still feel tired from a day's running, then stop for a while. Adding mileage to your running training while still feeling exhaustion might aggravate your condition and make your heart beat go below the normal resting rate. Therefore, make it a point to gradually add mileage and increase it to 10% every week.

Uphill Running

Running uphill is definitely one excellent way of improving a runner's overall speed and strength. This has been proven true as it was observed that the way you will run on an uphill track may actually be the same as the movement you take when you climb hills. And they are observed to have basically the same motion as in sprinting where the runner's legs are lifted very high while running.

Boosting a Beginner's Endurance

While a runner amateur to running would want to run a farther distance from about two miles to four and eventually increasing to six and eight miles more, the more experienced or veteran runners do not care so much for increasing their distance in as much as they would want to boost their endurance. They would, as much as possible, want to cover their substantial distances in their running training.

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