Weight management in marathon training
Whether you’re training for your first marathon or you’re a hardened marathoner, it’s easy to go overboard with what you eat. Here we’ll look at what can so easily happen, the impact it has and how to avoid it. …
Weight loss nutrition for running
Many people start running as a tool in their weight loss journey. We all have increases and reductions in our weight each year, as well as long term. Occasionally, to run faster you may want to drop a few pounds….
Changing habits to run better
When people talk and write about habit change, we tend to think about dieting and New Year’s resolutions a lot of the time, but habit change goes way beyond the scope of an arbitrary date or what we eat. Let’s…
The effect of weight loss in runners
There have been a few cases in recent years of professional or semi-professional athletes being pushed to lose more weight with the idea that it’ll help them run faster. In these instances, it’s gone beyond the limits though and had…
Running weight loss – consistent of variable calories
If you’ve read some of my other blogs on running weight loss, you’ll see lots of tips on how to do it safely and why it helps. One thing I haven’t discussed is whether you should keep calories the same…
How can hiring a running coach help me?
Often people in the fitness industry make wild claims that how you’ll get “shredded” if you do “insert oversimplified, unrealistic thing”. Luckily this doesn’t seem to be the trend with runners, as people get that you have to put in…
Does running help with weight loss?
Weight loss is just one of the reasons a person might take up running. But how can you make the most of it? Fast vs slow The “fat burning zone” where you optimally use fat as fuel is around 60-70%…