As a total beginner to running you might feel intimidated to get out your house and have your first try, but when you do you will never look back. Regularly running three times a week will result in you having more energy; you sleep better at night and feel more rested in the morning, and like any other activity where your body moves calories are burnt, which if combined with a healthy diet will lead to losing weight.

However you do need to be sensible if you have not done much or any exercise for a long time, visit your doctor and get a check up its better being safe than sorry. Once you’ve been given the all clear the next stage is to find a running program which suits you.

Learn how warm up and cool down, warming up lets your body know that it is going to start working soon, while cooling down has the opposite effect allowing your body time to cool down at the end of your workout, learning how to stretch properly will decrease the chances of you pulling or damaging your muscles before running.

As a beginner the run/walk running program is ideal to start with, this program involves you running for a selected time in this case 30 seconds, and then you stop running and walk for 60 seconds. Now you may be thinking 30 seconds is too easy or you may be thinking 30 seconds is too hard, this is why it’s a good program to start with as you will start to be able to read your own body. If 30 seconds it too easy moves it up to 60 seconds with 30 seconds of walking and if 30 seconds is to hard reduce the time running and increase the time walking.

When you start getting out and running more make sure you start to write down your times and distances, this is called a running log and will help you monitor your progress. Keeping a running log will help towards motivating you to try that bit harder to improve. From these logs you can set yourself new goals for the future, and when you achieve them, which you will, make sure you celebrate the achievement.

Nutrition is important and looking after your body and ensuring it has enough fuel inside it to run to its full potential is a hard task. If you are burning 400 calories an hour with a slow paced run, then you need to make sure you have consumed this many calories throughout the day. However it’s not just calories protein plays a big part in all exercise, making sure you eat enough protein will ensure your muscles develop fast, and even more important your muscles heal faster.

Now you have an basic idea on the principles behind running your ready to go and change your life style for the better, one of the biggest plus’s to running which is last on the list is the boost to your self confidence

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