Each new year, as January arrives, millions of people worldwide decide to make some positive changes to their lives and set New Year resolutions. For many people this revolves around fitness: eating more healthily, exercising more, perhaps even entering a marathon or other endurance event.
Yet, most fail, very often setting them back to the place they were before even thinking about making
Negative Split Marathon
Should you attempt a negative split marathon?
Is the negative split the best way to run a marathon? The data suggests not. It might be far better to accept some slowdown during the second half.
What is a negative split marathon?
Simply, a negative split marathon means running the second half faster than the first. It is commonly recommended on coaching and running websites to attempt to run the second half of a marathon faster than the first.
How to plan a running interval session
We’ve updated our page on interval session planning.
The page includes a downloadable table for anyone who likes to devise their own training schedule.
Simply select your current fitness level using a recent 5k, 10k or half marathon and choose your rep or interval distance; the table will show you your ideal time for each rep distance: 400m, 800m, 1k, 1200m, 1600m and a mile.
Top Four Reasons Why Diets Fail
The beginning of another new year and with it are the resolutions that are going to make us fitter, healthier, wealthier, less cluttered, more organised, etc, etc, the list goes on. Of course, one of the greatest new year resolutions it to lose weight, or as we like to say, get in shape.
Yet, according to Jessica Bartfield, MD (who specialises in nutrition and weight management at the Loyola
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Does Running Get Easier? Find out how and why
If we get better at running, does running get easier?
The good news is yes. Running becomes easier as your body develops and adapts to the demands you place upon it. If you run regularly, your legs get stronger, your heart gets stronger and is more able to pump the blood and energy-carrying oxygen to the muscles in your legs. It might take a few weeks, but some marvellous things