How To Start Running For Beginners

Here's some advice on how to start running for beginners. Depending on the level of fitness you've got, you might want to think about having a GP to clear you, first of all, particularly so if you've got any worries about excess body weight, obesity, high blood pressure, or if you've got any musculoskeletal problems particularly around the hips, the knees, the ankles. If you get the "all clear", then depending on what level of aerobic fitness you've got from any other sports, the things I would focus on in particular would be looking at getting out the door for some regular training sessions.

Whatever the details of those sessions might be would vary, but I would be thinking in terms of twenty-five to thirty minutes comprising a mixture of running, jogging and walking. What you might find is that you need to take a minute or so to walk after you've done about two or three minutes jogging. After a minute's walk, you can probably try another two or three minutes of jogging, then another minute walking and so on.

I'd try and focus on building up the amount of time spent in that twenty-five to thirty-minute window; the amount of running time versus the amount of walking time. Over a few weeks, you should find that you make quite big inroads in that. And maybe after, possibly five, six, seven weeks, depending on your individual fitness background, you might find that you can run for thirty minutes continuously which is good early markers and real good progress.

So, it's a summary. The key things would be check with your GP, your overall medical fitness, and focus on regularity and consistency and about twenty-five to thirty-minute window per session and make the most of each of those training opportunities. And that's my advice on how to start running for beginners. .