Articles related to "Training Diary"



Keeping a Training Diary
If you train frequently, is it worth keeping a diary or log? The pros and cons of doing so, what information you need to record, how to analyse it, and where on the web to find PC friendly training diaries, widgets and further reading. There's more to running than running!
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Restoration in Long Distance Running Part 2
The second part of the quartet of articles on how important restoration in running is - you need more than to rest in order to recover. This article concentrates on getting your heart, lungs, blood and circulatory system ready for your next intensive training session. It tells you how to monitor your body, how to help your body recover, what signals mean things are going wrong, and how to put them right. As ever, diagrams and exercises help focus your mind on the key points. So do yourself a favour, understand that restoration is as important as the running itself which you do.
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Restoration in Long Distance Running - Part 1
After explaining the need to monitor your heart rate and blood pressure, and to keep a training diary as a useful tool to aid your training, now I would like to examine the training factor of restoration in detail. Restoration, or resting so as to recover between training sessions, is the key to your success in long distance running. However, a great many people who train for long distance running do not realise this, train too hard, do not allow enough rest, and leave their races behind in their training. So read on to find out how to recover, how to restore your body before training again, and particularly, before training hard again.
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Two Key Indicators of Recovery and Restoration: Your Heart Rate and Your Blood Pressure
Two key medical indicators of whether or not you are overtraining and heading for illness, and whether or not you have let your body recover enough so that it benefits from the training runs you do, rather than be destoyed by your efforts. These are your heart rate (pulse) and your blood pressure, so you need to know haow and where to measure them - and where to buy what you will need!

Returning To Running After A Break
Runners can return to training after breaks lasting for either years or months. Lapsed runners are advised to run a weekly plan and reflect on why they desire a comeback.
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INTERVAL TRAINING - Part 1
This article looks at Interval training, which in the author's opinion is overused by a lot of serious runners. However, used in measured doses, its training effect on your heart is important. You will know exactly what Interval training is, who developed it, and what benefits it brings to you as a runner: that it sharpens your form ready for the more important races: cross-country championship races, and the summer track and road racing season. Stronger, faster, higher, by thinking smart!
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Restoration in Long Distance Running – Part 3
This article looks at how during restoration important exchange processes occur, which you must allow for, encourage, and facilitate. It further develops the theme fo a holistic approach to running in which evrything is integrated into a lifestyle.

Restoration in Long Distance Running – Part 4: Overtraining, and Psychological Recovery
Two separate aspects of restoration in long-distance running are examined here. Overtraining, its symptoms, how it affect the nervous system and what masures you can take to restore you and yor body to normal. Then psychological restoration and particularly the use of PRT. A day off a week, or some other sporting activity once a week is important, as practiced by the mile world record holder from the 1960s, Frenchman Michael Jazy. You cannot train well without mastering thes two aspects and integrating them into your lifestyle.

Restoration in Long Distance Running – Part 5: Nutrition
After training and tiring your body, breaking it down, you can help your body to recover and restore its strength and build your ability to run a long distance by dieting well - here the basic essential items of diet are covered - so run long, run silent, and afte building up a good appetite - bon appetit!
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Great quotes, part 4
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