Why is it important to do different kinds of runs to improve?ĭifferent types of runs serve different purposes. Or lots of long-haul travel and jet lag – that might be causing poor sleep, and therefore you’re not adapting. If your work is very stressful and you’ve got a lot of stress hormones circulating, that may be stopping good adaptation. If you’re sleeping badly, you might be doing really good training but not adapting in between training sessions. The obvious things are nutrition and hydration, rest, and sleep. It’s easy to just focus on training, but it could also be something to do with the adaptation. Is your training too little or too much? Or perhaps it’s the right amount, but not the correct type of training for the event you’re targeting?ĭo an audit of your running and your non-running activities. In that scenario, it’s a good idea to look at what you’re doing and what’s not quite right.
If you have been improving and then plateau, what that tells you is that the cycle of supercompensation had been working but now isn’t. What if you find you’re not improving any more? Don’t tweak things in an effort to improve more rapidly, because you might find that you end up getting worse. If you’re an experienced elite athlete, it might mean training 14 times a week or more.įind a routine which suits you, and triggers adaptation and improvement. If you’re a beginner, start running maybe two to three times a week, or mixing up walking and running, to avoid injury and allow your body time to adapt. So the key for any runner, from a complete beginner all the way up to an elite athlete, is to get on that cycle of supercompensation. That process gets repeated and over time you improve. Then when you’re resting after running, your body adapts in response to that stimulus. When you run you do microdamage to your body.
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