You are meeting your weekly mileage goals, pushing the intensity of your workouts, and striving to work harder with each session. Yet, progress seems absent. Instead, you feel sluggish, fatigued, and your motivation wanes. Sound familiar? This might be a case of overtraining. While it can be challenging to distinguish overtraining from insufficient recovery, it is crucial to recognize that inadequate recovery is a key component of overtraining.
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Injured before a marathon – what to do?
No one wants to get injured before a marathon, but sometimes it just happens. The training season is an important stage in preparing for a marathon, but it is also a time when many runners encounter various strain injuries and damages. In case of injuries, it is important to look at what has happened, how badly and at what point in the training season.
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Exercising has become a million-dollar business, dominated by technology, supplements and equipment. What is really needed for physical recovery? Recovery from exercise plays an equally important role as the performance itself because neglecting recovery is directly related to progress.
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Running and training are full of myths. Some of them still live tenaciously, even though they could have been proven wrong by science a long time ago. There are many running myths that can affect people’s training and beliefs about how they should train. Some of the myths can also affect how we see training in general. Here is just a small fraction of common beliefs.
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