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5 Tips To Improve Your Running Session Performance

If you are struggling to overcome the arduous task of becoming a good runner to pass the beep test then perhaps these 5 tips will help you get to where you need to be.

5 tips to improve your running session performance

9/20/2022

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1. use a known track

2. USe a stop watch

3. RUN WITHOUT headphones

  • You need to have situational awareness. This is becoming more and more unnatural as we are constantly plugged into devices for every aspect of life. Listen to the sounds of your breathing and your surroundings and learn to be constantly aware of what's going on around you. It's fine if you are a civilian but guess what....you are all aiming to serve in uniform and those in uniform have to have situational awareness.
  • Learn to motivate yourself from within. Your purpose of getting into uniform is enough to keep you on track. Needing constant entertainment to ensure you finish or even start the running session is not conducive to someone who is determined on getting into uniform.
  • Train the way you fight. As mentioned above you won't have them once you get to basic training or the academy so cut the away now.

4. avoid using the treadmill

  • circuit training in the gym
  • extreme bad weather
  • running analysis for coaches
  • when you have no room for a running track such as being on a cruise ship
  • long distance training for marathon runners to get time under their feet for conditioning purposes
  • it does a lot of the work for you
  • unless you keep the treadmill going during each rest period then you are not getting a true indication fo your intervals because you have to wait for the treadmill to catch up to the appropriate speed
  • you set the speed instead of running so it's difficult to gauge your average interval times because it's set for you
  • it's really comfortable inside so you aren't exposed to the elements
  • you never run on a treadmill at basic training or the academy

5. control your rest

  • Walk for a set distance. To the next tree or light pole then go again;
  • Walk for a set number of steps. 20 steps then go again;
  • Walk for a set number of breaths. 10 deep breaths then go again;
  • Walk for a set time. You ran for 3 minutes now walk for 20 seconds before going again.

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