How to Support Yourself When Running: 5 Steps

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How to Support Yourself When Running: 5 Steps
How to Support Yourself When Running: 5 Steps
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Do you like running, or do you participate in running races? You can give your best in running if you do something to support yourself and forget you are doing it. Here are some suggestions.

Steps

Push Yourself When Running Step 1
Push Yourself When Running Step 1

Step 1. Choose your favorite song or the one you always like to have in your head

Try something like Missy Elliot's "Lose Control" or Queen's "Don't stop me now" (just to name a few).

Push Yourself When Running Step 2
Push Yourself When Running Step 2

Step 2. When you run, your breath can be a problem

Get the rhythm of your breathing so you don't breathe irregularly and make a mess.

Push Yourself When Running Step 3
Push Yourself When Running Step 3

Step 3. If you are participating in a race or running with other people and there is someone faster than you, stay behind them

Keep up with him, but only if he has a steady pace. Just try to keep up. Do not give up. It's tough, but it's not just a physical thing, it's also a mental one. You have to tell yourself not to give up. Try to overcome any pain or fatigue by talking to yourself (in the mind, so you don't waste your breath.)

Push Yourself When Running Step 4
Push Yourself When Running Step 4

Step 4. You have to convince yourself not to give up and to do a good job, keeping the pace

Listening to music is a good help.

Push Yourself When Running Step 5
Push Yourself When Running Step 5

Step 5. Don't stop

When you get to the point where you feel your legs burst, keep running! The mind controls the body. If you keep running, you forget about the pain. True, it can be very difficult to ignore the pain, but if you focus on something different, you will definitely keep running. Unless you've really hurt yourself, in which case you'd better stop so as not to hurt yourself even more.

Advice

  • Hydrate yourself well before you start running.
  • When you start feeling tired, don't stop. Give yourself a goal, such as "I have to get to that pole". Once you have achieved one goal, give yourself another. Before you know it, you will have reached the finish line, without having stopped.
  • If you feel the need to go slower, think that if you go fast you will arrive sooner, and you will be able to rest earlier.
  • Think positive.
  • Keep running until you think you have 10 seconds left, but when you get to 3 start counting to 10 again.
  • Run your race, if someone overtakes you, don't try to go at their speed. Keep your pace. Eventually they will get tired.
  • One trick to get rid of cramps is to understand which side the cramp is on, and with each step you take with your foot on the side of the cramp, exhale deeply. The cramp will go away in 30 seconds.
  • If you have cramps and they don't go away after a minute or two, slow down, but don't stop.
  • You must have great determination.
  • If there is a hill and when you go downhill you gain speed, try to keep it as long as possible.

Warnings

  • If you are out of breath, stop and ask for help.
  • If your shins start to hurt, stop right away, you may have tendonitis. Show up as soon as possible.
  • If you have a congested face, you may be short of breath.

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