News and articles from Running Training Plan
I’ve not written anything about specific shoes for a while. But, after a recent purchase that was probably my best shoe bargain ever, I thought the time was right.
The Brooks Green Silence get rave reviews and are really worth considering for anyone following the ‘less is more’ approach to running shoes. I was very lucky with mine, I bought a used pair on eBay to try out
Probably, most runners used to running in typical running shoes who start running in minimalist shoes such as Vibram Five Fingers know that they should introduce the new shoes gradually.
But how gradually? A research study at Brigham Young University looked at experienced runners who introduced running in VFF gradually over a 10-week period according to ‘industry suggested protocol’.
Running pace for 400m intervals (or 400m repeats) varies depending on the objective of the session and the recovery periods. Very often, 400m reps are run at 5k race pace with relatively short recoveries, but they can be run faster too.
These two terms have become largely interchangeable, although actually they refer to different parts of a mixed pace training session. Reps, repeats or repetitions
According to researchers at the University of Surrey, people who fail to lose weight while taking anti-obesity drugs do so because they fail to alter their beliefs about their own ability to lose weight. This is in line with Henry Ford’s famous quote, ‘Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right‘.
What we believe influences our thinking and hence
For some people, getting fit can seem like an impossibly high mountain to climb. All those hours to spend in the gym or out on the roads running or cycling; it can just seem too daunting.
Recent research on HIT, or High Intensity Training, has proved that there is such a thing as a shortcut to getting fit. This is great news to anyone who wants to start running, but feels that they are not fit enough.
For effective interval training, the paces you run your reps should be determined according to your running ability.
These paces will also vary depending on how long each repetition is, but where do you start?
For example: you know you can run 10k in 45 minutes and want to run an interval session of 10 x 400m, how fast should you run each 400m lap? Using the chart, you will see that an effective
