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How Sleep Can Make You A Better Runner - Sleep is part of training

 How Sleep Can Make You A Better Runner 1. Sleep releases growth hormones 2. Sleep allows your heart to rest 3. Sleep can strengthen the immune system 4. Repair Tissue and Build Muscle 5. Sleep may improve endurance Research from Stanford published in SLEEP reported that increased sleeping time can improve athletic performance. Everybody knows how important sleep is even though our culture of hyper-busy people discourages it. You probably know someone who brags how he only needs five hours of sleep a night and another who insists on eight hours — and it’s true, sleep needs vary. At the same time, over sleeping also causes health risks. Sleep needs depend mostly on age.Over sleeping by an adult over nine hours out of 24hours, also leads to many health conditions. As an athlete, getting enough sleep is as important as your food and exercise choices. Cheating on sleep makes it hard to concentrate at work, may impair your appetite and cause irritability. A sleep debt can nega...
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Running Economy

Don’t you think it would be a great idea to train ourselves in such a way that, We enjoy our runs, keep ourselves fit & healthy and run forever? Athletics is not so much about the legs. It’s about the heart and mind," Kipchoge once said. It’s easy to track the miles you run, the hours you cycle and the calories you burn. You can even check your heart rate along the way. But how do you know if your efforts are taking you in the right direction? It’s vital to know, how your workouts influence your body.  The relationship between activity and outcome isn't always the same. Similar runs can produce different results depending on your fitness level, training history and even your training environment. I don't have to train so hard, to run a sub 4 full marathon. I don't go to gym but still I have a strong shoulder and bicep. Sometime even genetics also play a vital role in our overall fitness. If you are quite fit, a 25 min 5k run is a good warm ...
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