Training for Running

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 ...

Further development of what fartlek is with suggestions on how to adapt it to your needs at the stage in the annual preparation you have reached. You also need to know how to change and develop your training schedule to fit in sessions of fartlek and change the emphasis from, say, ...

What type of training is represented by this strange sounding Swedish word? Why do you need it? How does it benefit you? When and where do you do it? And how do you do it - by playing with the speed and enjoying yourself!

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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!

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 ...