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Training and diet evoke effort and sacrifice, but they are individual choices based on goals, lifestyle and habits.
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Training is a methodical activity designed to maximize physical and mental performance, tailored to personal goals and level of experience.
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Working out as a group allows you to overcome challenges, making training a shared and potentially more rewarding experience.
Trainingis a word that automatically conjures up a concept of effort, commitment, sacrifice. The same mechanism is triggered when we hear the word diet. We immediately think of a dietary regimen characterized by deprivation, hardship and renunciation. But training is not just a word: it is a choice.
There is no universal workout just as there is no effective diet for everyone. There are different types for different goals, taking into account the person and his or her starting point. A training to run a marathon will decline differently based on the runner facing it and his or her experience: has he or she run this distance before or is it the first time? What is your lifestyle and daily habits? How much time do you have to devote to training?
What does it mean to train?
In sports, training is a methodical activity of physical, psychological, and tactical preparation aimed at achieving the highest possible performance in the pursuit of competition performance or the maintenance of physical fitness. It is the set of techniques that aim to bring out the best potential, physical and mental, of each person.
It is the physical and mental preparation toward the goal that requires a method. Learning the method will accompany, step by step, toward the set goal.
Through training, an attempt is made to shape the physique through stimuli of different natures and intensities that will produce changes in the recomposition of body mass, thus at the anatomical level, but also from the functional point of view, for example by increasing muscle strength.
What is the best training?
Whether you are training for a 10-kilometer race, a half-marathon, a marathon or have a mountain running race in your sights you are challenging yourself. Planning for proper distribution of workloads is crucial here. A running coach is a valuable professional figure who can guide you along this path, overseeing your growth path with a critical eye.
However, it’s not like the doctor ordered it that one must compulsorily run to participate in races. One can also simply run to seek and maintain a general state of physical well-being. No pressure or performance anxiety, just running for pleasure.
So what is the best workout? The one that will lead you true to your goal, whether it is about achieving your best performance or about a state of psycho-physical well-being.
Group training
Sometimes there may be a lack of motivation and strength, mental and/or physical, to tackle certain workouts. The fear and dread of not succeeding can take over leading you to not finish the training successfully. Having someone willing to share this moment can make all the difference in overcoming difficulties. Giving each other support, spurring each other on, encouraging each other, or even simply being there has a reassuring power. Fear passes and concentration returns. Sometimes it is not even necessary to speak, sometimes it is not even possible if the effort required is particularly challenging. Sometimes presence is enough. Out of the corner of your eye you can glimpse that there, right next to you, is someone you can count on. Because while it is true that running is a private matter, it is also true that it is a team sport. And it is precisely about the strength that running together can convey that we talk about in
Run Together
, the new podcast produced in collaboration with
On.