At a time when you, it would seem, have decided for themselves that it's time to start running, a new dilemma - "when?" - comes to the fore. It turns out that you do not have to run at all. In the evening, coming home from work, you fall apart exhausted on the couch, and even thoughts about any motor activity can not be, and in the morning you look at the most valuable and colorful dreams, waking up earlier would have been just cruel. So, here, it turns out that we must give up something to buy something.
The benefit of running in the morning
If your choice fell on the morning run , then you have already acquired the automatic:
- clean morning air as opposed to evening exhaust gases;
- invigorating freshness, in contrast to the evening stuffiness;
- a full set of energy, as opposed to evening fatigue;
- the active start of the day, as opposed to the one whose reflection you are accustomed to seeing in the mirror in the mornings.
However, the benefits of morning running are often questioned because, allegedly, not awakened organism is very difficult to cope with such a load. In this matter everything is individual, and no one, better than yourself, will determine whether you need to run in the morning or not. Someone jumps up from the bed, neither light, nor dawn, and is ready for accomplishment, someone fades at the thought of lifting at 9.
If your option is a morning running for weight loss, you need to do an interval run . That is, alternate jogging with acceleration. The duration of the acceleration phase should be about 2 minutes.
If you want to run to improve immunity, endurance, for the benefit of the cardiovascular and respiratory system, the ideal option, running over 30 minutes at an average, moderate pace.
In order not to turn a leg awake, you must devote a couple of minutes to warm-up - work in express mode all the joints, then go to the slowest run and in 5 minutes type your optimal run.