Cross Training

In everybody’s running career there will be an injury and it will keep you as a runner off your feet. This doesn’t mean you can’t still stay in shape for when you get back to training on your feet again. The trick to this is to get an equally difficult workout off your feet as you would while running. What you need to do as the runner is take the mileage you have for that particular day, say eight (8) miles, and determine how long it will take, say roughly forty (40) minutes. Go to your local gym or weight room and use the elliptical or stationary bike on the same intensity as the run and train for the previously determined time. Try to keep the workout as similar to your typical run as possible in order to achieve the same workout. If you usually stop and stretch or activate your muscles six (6) minutes into your run, you need to do the same while training in the gym. I don’t endorse cross training if it is not necessary. This is because no matter how closely you try to get the same workout in a gym, it will never replace an actual run. Good luck!