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Marathon Training Plan - Give It Your Best Shot

By Tarikul Haque


While marathon training you are running thousands of kilometers and as a result burn countless number of calories. Your body just cannot move without fuel like a car. Training for a marathon is a great excuse to start eating more nutritious food, which is what you've always wanted, right? The good part is, because you're going to be burning so many more calories, you may actually find that you're able to eat more than you usually do. You'll still need to pay attention to making lower fat choices, but you'll get to focus on items such as pasta, bread, and potatoes in order to fuel your workouts.

So how exactly do you train for this type of event? There are multiple ways to do it, and you will want to start out by coming up with a schedule of training sessions for each day in the week. This will set you up with a good way to prepare yourself for the race, so when the day finally comes, you will be able to come out on top and perform to the best of your ability. The training for this type of marathon involves switching off and on, doing speed-walking one day and running the next.

Marathon is different from other sports by its distance measure. Working your way up to 26.2 miles without giving way to any one of the many bear traps waiting is the dare you face, and it is a face up to win! Too many people start out full blazes and either train too hard, burning out or succumbing to injury or just train indecently and never see any noteworthy progress and as a result they give up. Do you think that you can complete marathon in the first go by following only 10 week marathon training schedule? Well, that's likely impractical. But at the same time it is feasible.

Just before your start, there a few very important points you need to be careful before starting any beginners marathon training schedule: -

#1 Give Your Body an Overhaul Before starting any form of activity or exercise it is strongly advised to get a check up from your doctor. There may be some underlying health issues that you weren't conscious of that can affect your ability to run. Any troublesome injuries or long term joint troubles also need to be rectified.

#2 Invest In Your Interest The very minimum requirements you need are at least one good pair of running shoes, ideally selected for you by staff who have access to gait analysis software, usually found at the better running stores.

For you to fully understand the way your body should respond to training and more importantly how that training should be structured as well as learning how to spot the signs of over training and fuelling your body to achieve the best results it is going to be essential that you learn all you can about the subject.

#3 A Strong Base Of Fitness is Essential. At the start you will more than likely be enormously enthusiastic to train, but you should be wary of doing this. As an alternative start off slowly and boost distances and speeds as you become more proficient and less challenged. I suggest that you leave at least 24 - 48 hours in between particularly challenging runs to begin with, but listen to your body and take longer to recover if you need it.




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