3 tips to improve your running – tip 2/3
Leave a commentMarch 20, 2013 by Brett Norris
Tip 2 – Route selection
Many people who have come to me for advice on their running have suggested that they run the same route every time and after the initial improvements have then ceased to improve further with reference to timings/speed.
The reason for this ‘plateau’ in performance is that the body has become used to the same route, same effort etc. I always suggest to my clients that they should locate a couple of different routes at least, even running the opposite direction on a route is fine, just don’t consistently use the same route, for the same distance and same pace because you will come to a point where you are no longer testing your body.
As I always say to people, if you read the same page of a book there will come a point when you are no longer learning anything. However, you turn the page and all of a sudden you are once again learning. It’s the same with your body in this instance; give it a new, different stimulus, let it adapt and then change again.
The next section (tip 3/3) will inform you as to how you can prevent plateauing by mixing up your training with differing intensities, distances.
Brett Norris 