Tips to Lose Weight by Running
If your thinking about starting a running program to loose some pounds your at the right place. The most important thing to remember is to gradually ease into running. This is if you have never really been a runner and you don’t have much time. Also, your looking at this method because it’s a low cost way to loose weight by running.
If you will write out some sort of schedule in the beginning you will have a much better success rate. Keeping a log is a good idea so you can chart your progress from month to month. Dedication works for runners because that’s what it takes. You can’t lay off very many days in a row or you will start to loose what you accomplished. Once you get into pretty good shape you can miss a day or two but not in the beginning. When you get back to the house do some yoga stretching.
For the first month you should walk/run everyday because you will actually be walking a bit more than you run. Let’s say for the first couple weeks you walk a mile and you run at least six houses. Every other day you increase another house. So by the end of the first month your actually running the whole mile without stopping. This is a tremendous milestone. Your finally mobile the whole coarse! By the end of the month you also have lost five pounds. Each month you will continue to loose weight by running.
It’s best to weight every morning because if you have lost more than three pounds, not good! What this means you have lost too many body fluids! Drink up. As you add another mile each month by the end of the first year, look at you! Your now able to run twelve miles without stopping. Plus you can cut a couple days out of your running because your in great shape by now.
Your goal in the beginning was to loose weight and you did. But as many runners do in time, the racing bug bites. And there’s nothing wrong with racing, that’s another story. Let’s recap. It’s been a year now. Your able to run twelve miles at a eight to nine minute pace. Running has a way of finding your best body weight. You will adjust all my recommendations to fit yourself, because I don’t know how much you were over weight when you started. You might check with your doctor too.
I know when I started it almost killed me because I had been a smoker for over twenty years. Running takes dedication. You must visualize in your own mind, being a slim runner. If you can see yourself as a slim runner in your imagination, you can become it. Control your mind and you’ll become a slim runner at what ever age you are. By the time you get to about two miles, if you’re a smoker in order to add any more distance you’ll have to give up the smokes. Mission accomplished, you were able to loose weight by running. I knew you could do it!
Gary Cooper is an author, publisher and veteran runner with well over one hundred races to his credit. He lives with his wife and a pet named Brandy near Dallas, Texas. In his early years he was a race horse jockey. He continues to love networking with friends and new associates around the globe. Checkout his website for tips on running, training, gear and articles. http://runningrunnersrun.blogspot.com, freecooper@gmail.com, Skype: gary.cooper471
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