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Health & Fitness Sports Running

Improve your Running - with Coach to Champion Runners

Learn to improve your running, with better technique, developing training plans, strength exercises, nutrition and more!
Rating: 4.2 out of 54.2 (36 ratings)
519 students
Created by Colin Thomas
Last updated 4/2020
English
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Improve your running technique with simple drills and exercises
  • Learn how to structure your own training plan with different training sessions
  • What to eat from different food groups
  • Strength and Conditioning techniques and exercises
  • How to warm up and cool down, including stretching
  • Different types of footwear
  • How to motivate yourself
  • Why running is good for you

Requirements

  • none

Description

This course is aimed at anyone who wants to improve their knowledge about running. It covers a wide range of subjects starting with why we should run and equipment/running shoes, all the way up to strength and conditioning, developing your own training sessions and training plan. With a combination of short lectures and videos, examples of exercises and running drills, all designed to make running easier for you. The course lectures and videos should take you around two hours to listen to and watch, and with practice will make you a better runner tomorrow than what you are today.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner to intermediate level runners or those looking to gain more training insights and improve your running

Course content

10 sections • 67 lectures • 1h 15m total length

  • Preview01:20
  • Preview00:58
  • Preview00:42

  • Preview00:56
  • Preview00:47

  • Preview04:01

  • Preview01:04
  • Preview00:58
  • Foot Landing Drills
    02:09
  • Legs
    00:59
  • Legs video
    01:21
  • Technique Summary
    00:31

  • Planning your Session
    00:27
  • The Warm Up
    00:41
  • The Warm Up continued
    00:48
  • Warm up Drills and Exercises
    01:43
  • The Main Session
    00:36
  • The Easy Run
    00:31
  • Long Runs
    00:58
  • Fartlek training
    01:13
  • Hill reps
    00:49
  • Interval Training
    00:46
  • Tempo Running
    00:39
  • Recovery Running
    00:35
  • Sprinting
    00:45
  • Running Drills
    01:14
  • The Cool Down
    00:27
  • Cool Down Static Stretches
    02:37

  • Writing Your own Running Programme
    02:35
  • Overload
    01:28
  • Recovery
    00:28
  • Adaptation
    00:56
  • Things to consider
    00:54
  • Developing Your Training Plan
    00:35
  • Training Plan Tips!
    00:50
  • Training Plan Example
    00:22

  • Sleep
    00:50
  • Sleep Architecture
    02:02
  • Deep Sleep
    00:23
  • Tips for Good Sleep
    00:31

  • Nutrition
    00:23
  • Carbohydrate
    00:46
  • Simple and Complex Carbs
    00:46
  • Carbohydrates
    03:45
  • Protein
    00:41
  • Protein
    02:22
  • Fats
    00:37
  • Fats
    01:06
  • Nutrition tips
    00:55
  • Avoiding dysglycaemia
    00:43

  • Strength and Conditioning
    01:03
  • General Strength
    00:22
  • General Strength
    03:00
  • Specific Strength
    00:30
  • Specific Strength
    02:33
  • Improving Power
    00:24
  • Power Exercises (Plyometrics)
    01:19
  • Core Stability and Strength
    00:26
  • Core Exercises
    01:13
  • Flexibility
    00:35
  • Flexibility Exercises
    03:17
  • Strength and Conditioning Tips
    00:35

  • Motivation and Overcoming Barriers
    02:28
  • SMART Goals
    00:23
  • Short Term Behavioural Goals
    00:56
  • Long Term Outcome Goals
    00:46
  • Well done!
    00:41

Instructor

Colin Thomas
UK Lead Sport Scientist and Coach
Colin Thomas
  • 4.3 Instructor Rating
  • 46 Reviews
  • 785 Students
  • 3 Courses

Colin is a Lead Physiologist in the UK, a Sports Scientist, UKA Running Coach and Personal Trainer tutor/assessor who works with athletes from beginner to elite, all over the world. He is also a tutor at the Institute of Sport. He has regular visits to Kenya, with some of the world's top athletes and coaches, training at altitude in their quest to reach the top. He has also worked in hospitals, gyms, clinics and fitness centres all over the UK with the general public, amateur and professional sports people, all with the similar aim of improving performance. As a keen running enthusiast himself he is always looking to trial new ways of pushing the limits of human performance. He is a regular speaker at conferences in the UK and abroad, and his written articles are regularly published in running magazines.


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