How to make progress in running is supercompensation, which is about impacts on the body from an external load. When we achieve sports in general, we want this outer impact to make the body stronger than before we started. This process is called Supercompensation. So, how to make progress by running with Supercompensation means, we … Read more

I think recovery is particularly important for beginners to be aware of. We don’t know our body’s physiological mechanisms yet and we are very motivated at the beginning of our running career. Most of us have many and fast ambitions to get progress in our efforts with running. How to focus on recovery after running … Read more

Long easy/moderate runs are endurance training, where you become able to run far in a long time. Finding your Lactate Threshold and practicing LT – training, you become able to run faster i.e. with a higher intensity for a long time. In other words, by performing lactate threshold training which is intensive marathon training intervals, … Read more

Running is demanding. Some Physiological functions such as the cardiovascular system, which is most important adapt very quickly to new loads by running and we experience an improvement in breathing and heart rate after 4-5 weeks of training among other things. But other physiological parts like muscles, tendons and tissues need different and longer adaptation … Read more

The part of the maximum Oxygen uptake, you can utilize over time, we may call the utilization rate. The Oxygen utilization rate is a measure of how large a percentage of the maximum Oxygen uptake, you can use over time. Together with the Oxygen uptake, the utilization rate improves your performance on a given running … Read more