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Beginners Running Program?

Beast13

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I'm just getting back into mma and as of now my cardio endurance is terrible. I am starting to drop weight which will definitely help, and aside from mma practice I want to do road work. Currently I can barely jog 1/2 a mile in 4 mins without gasping for air and I can almost make it 1 mile in 10 mins before the brink of death. I'm 5'8" 210 (19% bf) so it's not like I am extremely overweight, and my cardio should be much better, and i plan to drop to 165ish. This is my first time running in about 2 years, and even when I was active in mma and football I always hated running, but I need to do it.

Does anyone have any recommendations as far as a running regimen?

Thanks.
 
I'm just getting back into mma and as of now my cardio endurance is terrible. I am starting to drop weight which will definitely help, and aside from mma practice I want to do road work. Currently I can barely jog 1/2 a mile in 4 mins without gasping for air and I can almost make it 1 mile in 10 mins before the brink of death. I'm 5'8" 210 (19% bf) so it's not like I am extremely overweight, and my cardio should be much better, and i plan to drop to 165ish. This is my first time running in about 2 years, and even when I was active in mma and football I always hated running, but I need to do it.

Does anyone have any recommendations as far as a running regimen?

Thanks.

http://www.8weeksout.com/2012/02/23/roadwork-2-0-the-comeback/
 
When I started running, I spent the first 4 weeks or so doing incline treadmill walks, all 40-60 minutes, gradually increasing the incline and the speed so that they got progressively harder. After that, when I hit the road I was able to do a very slow 3k pretty comfortably. Maybe three days later I did a very slow 4k, and then after that 5k. Over a period of months I garudally increased the distances I was running, until it was more like 7k-8k per time, around three times a week, and then eventually a little bit more still. I stayed doing these long, slow runs for about about 6 months, before I started doing some timed 5ks and tempo runs. But you don't really need to do those for aerobic conditioning- you only need to do them if you want to get faster.

Like a lot of exercises, it is just about getting over the "hump"- being able to do it once, so that you can gradually progress from there. The incline treadmill walks are good for that.
 
Run longer even if its a very slow jog. Also, as you may know running cardio and mma cardio are two different things. If you are not going to a fight gym, go online and order a fit deck. They are great.
 
Slow down and run at a comfortable pace and the speed and distance will come. If every run is a time trial you'll wear yourself out pretty soon and likely injure yourself on top of it.

Run at a pace that you can hold a conversation at, even if it's barely a jog. Concentrate on adding time every time out, if only a minute or two and don't add more than 10% time/distance per week to avoid over-training or injuring yourself.
 
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