If you don’t have a fitness watch you need to work out what your maximum heart rate is manually. This will give you a good guide as to which zones you need to be working in to get the most benefit from your training.
Do you want to get a Personal Best at Parkrun?
Yes the title comes from one of my all time favourite movies Top Gun, but speed is also important for runners too.
Once you’re able to run a set distance, most people’s next goal is to run it faster.
As you run longer or your body gets fatigued you’ll find your running form may start to falter which can lead to poor running mechanics and injuries.
The 5 areas to focus on are:
When do you choose to exercise?
There has been a big increase in recent years of the number of people following a vegan diet. The media may have had something to do with it, with documentaries like The Game Changers, the accessibility of vegan food in the super markets and restaurants and of course high performance athletes getting great results at an elite level that follow a plant based diet.
As with any diet there are healthy and unhealthy ways to follow a vegan diet.
In recent years periods have become less of a taboo subject as media coverage has started to increase with top athletes talking about their periods and more research being done into the physical and mental effects on periods, hormones and exercise.
What is HR Training?
With this type of training you can forget about the pace your running at, but instead focus on what your heart rate is doing.
Depending on the type of run you’re doing will affect the heart rate zone your wanting to run in.
Heart rate training is very personal as we all have different resting heart rates and therefore different maximum heart rates. So you’ll find a beginner or a retuning to running runner will have a different maximum heart rate to somebody who is an experienced runner.
Don’t Let Your Asthma Stop You
I was diagnosed with asthma as a teenager. I was so active and playing sports daily, I couldn’t understand why I was getting out of breath so easily and struggling to recover compared to the rest of my team mates.
Now the weather is starting to get warmer the importance of staying hydrated when your exercising is paramount.
Serious side effects can happen if you become dehydrated. They can range from: