How To Learn To Run

Okay, here are a few basic advice tips about just starting a fundamental running program for a brand new runner. Real basic things should be if you've got any doubts about being overweight, or blood pressure, or muscular skeletal problems, just check with your GP that, in principle, running is an activity that you're able to start doing. One of the things that you should focus on is getting some sort of regularity and consistency in your running training as early as you can.

So, what this is likely to mean in practice, would be trying to get 3 or 4 days where you're going out and doing some sort of running. If you don't have any sort of background in an endurance sport - such as cycling, swimming, canoeing, rowing - you're probably likely to find that your aerobic fitness which is what your running is based around is at quite a low level, and this might involve you having to actually do some walking within your initial running. So, for example, if you try and do a 25 minute session to start with, you might be jogging for 2 minutes, walking for 1 minute, jogging for 2 minutes, walking for 1 minute, etc.

So, as you build up your fitness, you'll find that the walking breaks should become a bit less frequent. What I would suggest is that you don't build up the total duration beyond 30/35 minutes, and the focus will be on an increasing proportion of that 35 minutes being running and jogging rather than the walking. I wouldn't look to be out for a long, long time, but would focus on the regularity as a key priority.

So, that's an outline on how to learn to run. .