First Post! 02/25/2011
Are your workouts getting harder, unpleasant and / or you cannot finish them as planned? If so, you are not doing things right. You must go back, look over your schedule, and adjust your training.
In order for your body to enhance fitness and stay healthy, en route to your goal, you need to reach a required level of effort for each workout session, but, you must maintain, (throughout complete training cycle), a correct balance between training load with adequate recovery time for proper conditioning to take place.
Your sessions should be "challenging hard", hard enough to be effective, but, they should leave you, (every time you do it), with a feeling that... what you've just done, it's worth doing and want to come back and do it allover, again and again!!
You, as a jogger, recreational runner, or as a runner looking to compete at your peak potential, need your own set of parameters to pace your jogging and running. Different reasons for exercising require different amounts of quantity and separate degrees in quality of training. And, to achieve success in running, or in any other sport for that matter, not only physical training is necessary, mental training is also important. In fact, your best performance can only be achieved by following a properly structured and complete "Training Program".
How to Design your Training Program?
First, you need to have a plan, an overall view of where you're going. The next step, you plan everything that you need to do and how to get there. A program should include appropriate sessions designed to help develop both, the specific to goal physical conditioning, and, a correct level of mental fitness, as well.
Sample Training Program:
Having your goal set, you write down at the bottom of your work sheet... the date of your event.
Then, the program is broken down into four phases of training which last for various numbers of weeks. Phase - I endurance
- II, stamina
- III, economy
- IV, speed.
And now, after you've determined the ideal length of each training phase, (or the number of weeks you need in each phase), you fill in all the training that you will do up to your event,
such as: - number of days you will run per week
- total miles / week
- distance of each run
- the intensity of each workout
- the recovery days
- psychological skills sessions
- time trials, and,
- the sharpening period, or, getting to a peak for your main event.
The number of training weeks that you need to spend in each phase, the volume & intensity of workouts will depend on your present fitness level and goal.
So, in order for you to get ready to race well on race day, you need to spend the appropriate amount of time in the training phase(s) designed to produce the specific conditioning that you need to reach your goal. You must get to the starting line, not undertrain, nor overtrain, but properly train and injury free, the only way to reach the FINISH LINE and achieve your best on race day!.
In order for your body to enhance fitness and stay healthy, en route to your goal, you need to reach a required level of effort for each workout session, but, you must maintain, (throughout complete training cycle), a correct balance between training load with adequate recovery time for proper conditioning to take place.
Your sessions should be "challenging hard", hard enough to be effective, but, they should leave you, (every time you do it), with a feeling that... what you've just done, it's worth doing and want to come back and do it allover, again and again!!
You, as a jogger, recreational runner, or as a runner looking to compete at your peak potential, need your own set of parameters to pace your jogging and running. Different reasons for exercising require different amounts of quantity and separate degrees in quality of training. And, to achieve success in running, or in any other sport for that matter, not only physical training is necessary, mental training is also important. In fact, your best performance can only be achieved by following a properly structured and complete "Training Program".
How to Design your Training Program?
First, you need to have a plan, an overall view of where you're going. The next step, you plan everything that you need to do and how to get there. A program should include appropriate sessions designed to help develop both, the specific to goal physical conditioning, and, a correct level of mental fitness, as well.
Sample Training Program:
Having your goal set, you write down at the bottom of your work sheet... the date of your event.
Then, the program is broken down into four phases of training which last for various numbers of weeks. Phase - I endurance
- II, stamina
- III, economy
- IV, speed.
And now, after you've determined the ideal length of each training phase, (or the number of weeks you need in each phase), you fill in all the training that you will do up to your event,
such as: - number of days you will run per week
- total miles / week
- distance of each run
- the intensity of each workout
- the recovery days
- psychological skills sessions
- time trials, and,
- the sharpening period, or, getting to a peak for your main event.
The number of training weeks that you need to spend in each phase, the volume & intensity of workouts will depend on your present fitness level and goal.
So, in order for you to get ready to race well on race day, you need to spend the appropriate amount of time in the training phase(s) designed to produce the specific conditioning that you need to reach your goal. You must get to the starting line, not undertrain, nor overtrain, but properly train and injury free, the only way to reach the FINISH LINE and achieve your best on race day!.
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john
04/09/2012 10:30
