Hate Cardio? Here's How to Make it a Part of Your Routine!
Some people love running and are absolutely addicted to it.
But the rest of us struggle to understand how those select few can possibly get to this point. After all, running is slow, painful, boring and makes you feel sick. What's to like about that?
A lot of us want to love running because we know it's good for us. We want to be fitter, we want to lose weight and we want to spend more time outside. But when we try it, itís just too unbearable to stick with.
So what can you do to solve the problem and actually get into running properly?
How to Learn to Love Running
The first thing to do is assess what you're doing wrong.
In many cases, the problem is that we try too hard to start losing lots of weight right away and to get into shape. We are under the illusion that in order to ëburn fatí or improve our fitness, we need to be training at a level that is very uncomfortable.
However, this is very much the wrong way to look at it. After all, when you start running, if it is something you've not done regularly before, then you're immediately adding to your routine and doing more than you did before. You are immediately improving your health and burning more calories than you would otherwise. That alone is enough!
What's more, is that this alone is enough to start improving your ability to run, which means you can accelerate your progress comfortably in future.
If you head out right now to go for a run and you try to run as fast and as far as you can, then you'll come back feeling like you achieved something but also feeling completely beaten up by your training and completely in pain.
Instead then, try to go for a run just to enjoy the run. Jog at a pace that feels comfortable and set out to explore the area. Wear comfortable shoes and when youíre ready to come home, turn around and come back.
This is something you'll now actually want to do again.
Make it Simple
The other thing to do is to make sure that the type of workouts you're using are ones that you can easily fit into your routine.
This is the other problem with going for a 40-minute run: 40 minutes is a long time. And it's especially a long time when you add the extra washing you have to do, the fact you might get lost and the fact that you need to shower and get changed.
Instead, how about looking into a relatively beginner-friendly form of HIIT? HIIT has the advantage of being something you can use anywhere and of being something that lets you burn a lot more calories and improve your health much more in a shorter space of time. This is something you can now conveniently fit into your routine and thus actually stick with.
But the rest of us struggle to understand how those select few can possibly get to this point. After all, running is slow, painful, boring and makes you feel sick. What's to like about that?
A lot of us want to love running because we know it's good for us. We want to be fitter, we want to lose weight and we want to spend more time outside. But when we try it, itís just too unbearable to stick with.
So what can you do to solve the problem and actually get into running properly?
How to Learn to Love Running
The first thing to do is assess what you're doing wrong.
In many cases, the problem is that we try too hard to start losing lots of weight right away and to get into shape. We are under the illusion that in order to ëburn fatí or improve our fitness, we need to be training at a level that is very uncomfortable.
However, this is very much the wrong way to look at it. After all, when you start running, if it is something you've not done regularly before, then you're immediately adding to your routine and doing more than you did before. You are immediately improving your health and burning more calories than you would otherwise. That alone is enough!
What's more, is that this alone is enough to start improving your ability to run, which means you can accelerate your progress comfortably in future.
If you head out right now to go for a run and you try to run as fast and as far as you can, then you'll come back feeling like you achieved something but also feeling completely beaten up by your training and completely in pain.
Instead then, try to go for a run just to enjoy the run. Jog at a pace that feels comfortable and set out to explore the area. Wear comfortable shoes and when youíre ready to come home, turn around and come back.
This is something you'll now actually want to do again.
Make it Simple
The other thing to do is to make sure that the type of workouts you're using are ones that you can easily fit into your routine.
This is the other problem with going for a 40-minute run: 40 minutes is a long time. And it's especially a long time when you add the extra washing you have to do, the fact you might get lost and the fact that you need to shower and get changed.
Instead, how about looking into a relatively beginner-friendly form of HIIT? HIIT has the advantage of being something you can use anywhere and of being something that lets you burn a lot more calories and improve your health much more in a shorter space of time. This is something you can now conveniently fit into your routine and thus actually stick with.