Can you explain the importance of incorporating aerobic runs into a training regimen?

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Drew Wartenburg · Answer

Can you explain the importance of incorporating aerobic runs into a training regimen? Aerobic runs are going to be the basic fundamental building blocks for any training program. Not only are those the first types of runs that you'll do at the outset of a training cycle, whether you are new to running or you're starting back up after a break, but aerobic runs are also going to comprise the majority of any training week for most people during a training cycle. So aerobic runs are going to vary from runs that are more pace specific or that have a component at an anaerobic or a threshold or a VO2 max level. Those are other training terms that you can look up. But with aerobic running, you are going to be improving the cardiovascular system due to the fact that you are training your heart as a pump to pump blood and then that blood will carry oxygen to the muscles. And in doing so, you're also helping to develop muscle tissue, muscle cells to withstand the shock and stress of training and to strengthen them for the stresses and training that will come further along in a training cycle. One error that a lot of people make is that they will do a version of the same run over and over for weeks and weeks, sometimes months and months, and are confused when training gains don't occur. At some point you need to advance from aerobic running to more varied paces as well.

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"Can you explain the importance of incorporating aerobic runs into a training regimen?"