One tip to keeping runners winning

Training for a 3k, 5k or longer run?

When preparing for a long distance race, we often put all our focus on training hard and improving our lap times, leg strength, endurance and general fitness.

While this is a disciplined thing to do it can hurt rather than help our chances of maximum performance on the day of the race.

In order to avoid that pitfall, here's a helpful tip.

Avoid all serious training in the final few days of the big race.

British researchers discovered that doing serious training 48 hours before the big race reduced by 7 percent the total distance covered by runners.

According to Samuele Marcora, Ph,D., the research showed that the excercises caused a high level of muscle damage which affected the runner's brain and caused him to exert more effort, even when he felt no sore in his muscles

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