Running tips for Beginners

Hi readers, I have mentioned eight points below which are good enough to prepare and help you in getting started with the running:

1. Start with a 30 mins walk on day one. Can you feel your breath? On day one focus on analyzing how body is reacting to the activity. You can try running a 200 meter in between your walk and try to understand body response. You might feel breathless but don’t worry, this is normal and happens with everyone who starts such activity after long gap.
2. You can also start running from day one, running is not like swimming where one needs to attend some kind of training. It is something which every one of us can do naturally, remember the school time when we all use to play for hours and hours in ground???? What has happened with us is that, over the period of time we almost stopped running and hence body has forgotten how to respond in case of such activity.
3. One important point to remember is START SLOW, your body does not adapt quickly to changes, it has the tendency to resist. Run as per your comfort level and focus on BREATHING, don't rush (that you will do in races), your main objective in initial days should be to make your body aware of the change.
4. If you are running after a long gap then legs will pain and that is OK, it should happen. In case you are experiencing pain, take rest, eat good food and give proper recovery time.
5. At the same time, you should maintain consistency in schedule, run at least thrice in a week, again, distance or speed does not matter.
6. There is a thin line between pain and INJURY, stop immediately if you feel something is wrong, DO NOT RUN or do any stressful activity in case of injury. Let body recover completely and wait for at least two days once you have a feeling that injury is all right.
7. Stretching forms an import aspect in any sport and same goes with running as well, do at least fifteen minutes pre and post running stretches, it improves muscle quality a lot, you should not feel heavy legs(like some rocks are tied up to your legs) when you wake up in the morning. If this is the case then surely you are not doing proper stretching.
8. Shoes, often people talk a lot about xyz brands shoe is good and all that stuff. I would suggest start with a normal shoe and when you reach a certain level think about shoes. Shoes do matter a lot but you should be mentally ready to invest money in shoes and that mental preparation will come once you are consistent with activity.

All the points mentioned above makes NO sense if you DO NOT SET A GOAL.

Setting up a realistic goal is the only way to success, be it anything on this planet.

So on day one itself decide a goal, it could be anything like following:

"I will run two km at the end of thirty days"

"I will run non-stop for fifteen minutes after ten runs"

"I want a feel good factor about myself hence I will run thrice a week at least"

"I will complete a five km marathon which is scheduled after two months"

Last, do not think that it is not my cup of tea, let's keep criticism job for others and we focus on enjoying the run.