Unfortunately because of a lack of knowledge or understanding, using one of these running schedules may actually do more harm than good because beginners feel they should stick to the training times or mileages exactly.
They’ll learn absolutely nothing about running and gain no understanding of how their body should respond to the training they’ll be doing. The majority of these new runners won’t get further than a couple of weeks in to their training, they won’t see the progress they were hoping for and this means they’ll give up too soon due to frustration, injury or a lack of motivation.
Created as a response to the lack of sound training advice and effective running schedules that are available for new runners, Jago Holmes, director of New Image Fitness Limited has created an innovative new 5k training program designed to get beginners up off the couch to 5k running in rapid time.
‘The problem with these giveaway training schedules is that they’ll teach beginners absolutely nothing about training to run a 5k’ Jago says ‘what they usually are is basically a chart that contains either distances or miles to run each day, it’s similar to a magician teaching someone how to do a trick simply by demonstrating the trick, without uncovering any of the theory and techniques behind it. When trying anything new, beginners need to understand exactly what it is they trying to achieve so they understand how to do the training and why it should be done.
I felt there was a large gap in the market for sound and effective training advice. Too many beginners start running but stop before seeing any real progress because they make some simple, basic errors. All of which can be easily avoided. Some of the information is out there for free, but you’d have to search far and wide for days to find it. What we’ve done is collected all the information you need, complete with training schedules and dietary advice and assembled it all in one place.
This program has been created to address these problems and provide a fast solution for anyone who wants to go from the couch to 5k running and improve their fitness levels quickly without paying a personal trainer hundreds of dollars for the same training advice and guidance.
It’s a step by step program that takes you as a beginner from the start of your training right through to the race day itself and beyond. The program is available as an instant download, from www.couchto-
