Training for an event

Are you training for an upcoming event? Here's some great tips to make the most of your training.

- First of all break down what is involved in your event E.g. Running, Biking, Swimming and the distance. And figure out how long you have until your event.

- Then trial yourself on these areas and time yourself. Record these results down.

- Now that you have a beginning point, you can now breakdown what goals you would like to acheive. Lets say you can currently run 5km and it took you 30mins and you want to get it down to 20mins. Beat your running time by 10mins.

Heres how we do it:  Look at how long you have till the event (lets say 11 weeks) break down the minutes you want to cut off your current time and divide by how many weeks you have to train. Important ALWAYS take off the last week before your event as you want to be able to achieve your goal the week before the event.

So divide 10mins by 10 weeks training time = 1min per week
Simple, this is going to be your weekly goal.

Now the final step. To beat your time it is best to mix up your training. Even though you are wanting to build your endurance fitness so you can run 10km, your body will also require some interval training, this way your will have energy for quick bursts of energy throughout the race and not be fatigued.

So breaking down your week: Do one full body weights session to help strengthen those muscles so they can speed you up when you are running.

Do 1 - 2 endurance training sessions - running the full 10km or as far as you can.

Do 1 interval training session - so sprint for 30sec and walk it off for 1min and repeat. This way you will get an overall fitness and it will be easy to beat your current time.

So good luck with your training. I will break down the specifics of your training program more in my next article!