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Running training
It's ironical that something as simple as running training can actually have a great deal of complexity to it. While lacing up your shoes and heading out the door is easy enough, developing an effective running training programme means that each and every workout has a specific purpose.
Developing any fitness programme is a balancing act between too much work and not enough. If you get the balance wrong in either direction, you'll simply not make good progress. This is particularly true of running training, where many people overdo it and wind up injured.
Recent research can play a hand in avoiding this. It has been found that contrary to popular belief, alternative workouts such as cycling can help maintain basic aerobic fitness in racers without the pounding that can occur out on the roads.
This is one reason why triathletes can maintain such high overall mileages - because they split their time between three activities, their body has time to recover from the specific demands of each, even though they are still working out intensely.
To be sure you are getting the most from your workouts it pays to not only balance out hard days and easy days, but also to add variety - for example, over the course of every two weeks you should try to include a mix of long sessions, hill workouts, intervals, race pace workouts, and even easy jogging for recovery.
Get this right and you'll know that each time you set foot out the door, you are doing something that will improve your overall conditioning.
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