Adding Variety In Your Training
Image by GIFER Running is a very repetitive motion. You are moving forward in the sagittal plane hopping on one foot at a time over and over. You take about 55,000 - 65,000 steps in a marathon so that's hopping on each foot 27,500 - 32,500 times! The human body is built to run but our current lifestyle is a lot more sedentary than our hunting and gathering ancestors. Improving our durability to keep us running strong requires variety in our training in intensity, distance, rest, movement and what we run on. Intensity and Distance Running one or two distances at the same pace isn't going to increase your fitness very well. You are building up some endurance but in order to adapt and grow as an athlete you need to provide a different stimulus. What it comes down to is you have a few different ways to create ATP to give you energy to run, let's narrow down to are aerobic (with oxygen) and anaerobic (without oxygen). Running shorter and faster uses up ATP primarily from yo