The First 8 Weeks of Marathon Training Exercises & Preparation Tips for Runners

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Hi! I’m Angela on behalf of Expertvillage.com and right now I am going to show you how to build up to train for a marathon. The plan that I have laid out for you, I am going to go through the step one, the first eight weeks of training. This whole training process is a total of 24 weeks but during this eight weeks, this is a way to approach your steps. First, you want to lay down your foundations, your weekly schedule. Everyday put on the calender what the exercises are going to be, or if it is a day of rest to let your muscles repair. Gradually build up no more than 10% weekly. Make sure that no more than 10% or else you will injure your muscles. You want your runs to gradually extend to half marathon comfortably, after these 8 weeks, preferably even to 16 miles. If ever this section is cut short, you miss a day, you didn’t run as far as you were supposed to, don’t play catch up those next couple of days because you will injure your muscles by overexerting them and having neglected them those previous days.

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