Triathlon Running Tips And How To Stay Injury Free

Mix up your running sessions. While there are a lot of positives about sticking to a well rehearsed running route, adding variety to your runs can also help. Instead of pavement running all the time, try running on the grass, off-road, up-hills, and along the beach in the sand barefoot. This can prevent high impact injury strain and running barefoot can also strengthen the feet and improve the natural running style, as you are more likely to run with a neutral pronation.

To increase your speed and cardiovascular strength, integrate Interval training to your workouts by adding bursts of high intensity to your training sessions. Alternate by following up with lower intensity workouts.

For new triathletes a common cause of injury is from over training, which leads to excessive muscle wear and burnout. After every training session, stretching should take place when the muscles are still warm. Proactively implementing injury prevention techniques are useful, but they do not provide a 100% guarantee to avoid injury. Minor muscle and tendon strains can come at any time during your training sessions and it’s important to listen to your body early when it starts tweaking around your ankles, knees and legs. The best and quickest cure is rest. You have heard the saying “A stitch in time saves nine”. Taking 2 to 4 days off from exercise is good advice. Don’t try to run off your muscle strains, as this can cause more damage and lead to you taking off weeks, which won’t help you or your training plan!