Resting allows your joints to recover from what is a high-impact exercise, and your running muscles to repair and strengthen. Alternatively, you could do Strength and Flex on your rest days. This is a 5-week plan designed to improve your strength and flexibility, which will help your running. Some new runners starting the programme experience calf pain or sore shins sometimes known as shin splints. Such aches can be caused by running on hard surfaces or by running in shoes that do not have enough foot and ankle support.
Always do the 5-minute warm-up walks as instructed in the podcasts before each run, and check that your running shoes are offering good support. For more information on preventing and treating injuries, read our page on sports injuries. You will have good runs and bad runs — accept it, and do not spend too much time analysing the how and why. Even a bad run is good for you. For tips on how to stay active after finishing the Couch to 5K programme, see our Life after Couch to 5K page.
Watch this video to see how Laura went from fitness phobe to keen runner with the Couch to 5K programme. Mindfulness means noticing and paying attention to what is going on in the present moment, without passing judgment on it. Mindfulness has been shown to be effective for reducing stress, improving emotional balance, increasing self-awareness, helping with anxiety and depression, and coping more effectively with chronic pain.
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We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services. You can change your cookie settings at any time. The app has been downloaded 2. Downloads of the running plan app, Couch to 5K, have surpassed 5 million this month July The app was downloaded 2. Regular running has been shown to reduce the risk of long-term illnesses, such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and stroke, as well as helping to maintain a healthier weight and improve your mood.
Designed for people who have done little or no running, the app provides guided commentary from a celebrity coach of their choosing and helps users to easily track their progress by doing 3 runs per week. The mixture of walking and jogging encourages a faster pace and to kick up your knees.
I cannot emphasize enough on how this app encourages kicking up my knees and picking up my pace during the running portion, thus targets the correct muscles and taking pressure off my knees. Because of all those factors, I can remain consistent and actually look forward to it. Just 30 min of my own three days a week- enables me to go the extra mile with my son after a difficult day at work.
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