kiefit_journal_2009_11 Get Your Dream Body

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RUNNING

PROGRAM

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Beginners Running Program - Tips And Tricks By: Dominique - Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com

Well begun is half done! When you are embarking upon a beginners running program, you may need some running tips to help set you off onto the right path. As a beginning runner you are, hopefully, enthusiastic about starting a beginners running program. The tips in this article aim to help you overcome the first hurdles.

ging for injury if you do not keep this in mind. It will also make sure you "ease into" your training rather than make it too hard for yourself and come to hate running. And that would be a real shame as you would lose out on all of the incredible health and wellness benefits that running gives you.

the web. These are often programs that have proven themselves over the years and will help you make those first all important steps of your running career. Beginners Running Program Tip #5: Believe You will Succeed

Beginners Running Program Tip #3: Walking and Running

Beginners Running Program Tip #1: Distance, Not Speed

A journey of a 1,000 miles starts with the first step. As a beginning runner you face some obstacles. Your confiMixing walking with running is dence may be low, you are nothing to be ashamed of at not sure you will be able to get all. It is an old technique for good at this "running thing", conditioning and training that etc. The important thing is to even serious, experienced believe in yourself. Choose a competitive runners have great beginner running proused. You are not proving gram that involves running anything to anyone, except and walking and that builds up perhaps what a fool you are, if your running gradually and you push yourself hard within two, three months you through sore tendons, strained will already be a changed permuscles, burning lungs, light- son. No doubt there will be headedness, or gasping for difficult times. But believe in breath when you are a begin- yourself, persist with the proner runner. In fact, without gram and you will get the outwanting to scare you too comes you are after. much, there is the slim, outAlthough some of the above side chance that you can give advice seems really straightyourself a heart attack by do- forward, it is amazing how ing those things! By a combi- often people start a beginners nation of running and walking running program completely you can actually maximise the incorrectly. Make sure you are time spent running because not one of those people and you take the little walking start running with a proven breaks that help you rest a beginners running program little bit. that works.

Running is a serious sport that involves certain well-trained core techniques like any other sport. Just because there aren't balls or bats or special gloves or all that much equipment involved doesn't make running any less of a particular sport that requires certain built-up ability before you take it to a higher level. If you are a starter, you have to understand that and you should not attempt to run at a great speed. A good running speed for beginners is easy pace or "conversational pace" as it is also called. This is the speed at which, if you were to run Beginners Running Prowith someone else, would be gram Tip #4: Follow A Proable to maintain a conversagram tion. You will be able to push yourself hard and maybe get inBeginners Running Provolved in racing later on, after gram Tip #2: Build Up you have been conditioned Gradually through smart, proper training. Next to starting off slowly, you When you start off your runneed to build up the time and ning career make sure you use or at least study predistance you run gradually. with running, you are just beg- existing running programs on

By: Dominique Article Directory: http:// www.articledashboard.com About Author: A dedicated Beginners Running Program is a great way to start your running career. Check out the beginner running programs on Best-RunningTips.com for very successful, proven running schedules for beginners that have helped hundreds of runners obtain their goals


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