Getting Started: Exercises“You need to take a few steps back from where you are now,” says Lee Saxby. “As a baby has to learn to walk, so you need to acquire – or regain – new motor skills before you are ready to run barefoot.” Here’s how...1

For an athlete accustomed to exercising outdoors, health clubs and gyms can be mystifying. Follow these three basic tips from exercise scientist Len Kravitz and you'll find that the gym becomes a home from home.Go in with a plan"A lot of people

Hill repeats: help develop explosive strengthThe mild autumn weather is great for running and it’s tempting to use this as an excuse to skip the weights room. But as you pile on the miles, your need for strength training grows. Years of study show

days!So, yes give spinning a go. It, and cycling in general, is an excellent way for runners to cross-train, but you must use this alternate exercise judiciously so as not to compromise your running training.—Hal Higdon, Senior Writer RW USA

Use the heart rate monitor (on most treadmills) to get yours a little higher than it would be for the same session outdoors, to take into account the impact the higher humidity levels but zero wind of running indoors. A 20-minute threshold run

It's unlikely that your club will hire a gritter lorry if its Tartan track succumbs to black ice, but speedwork doesn't necessarily mean a track session. You can take some of your favourite track sessions on to the road. In general, this means running for time

running with some outdoor runs. For me, this provides a similar benefit to using free weights, in that your musculature is constantly challenged in lots of ways by undulating surfaces, wind resistance etc. Think more about time than speed. Get 30 mins

was running 30 minutes at a time, and by last autumn he had completed his first half-marathon in 2:12. But Beesley didn’t stop there. He kept running outdoors through the winter months, despite temperatures that dropped to well below zero, and last spring

30m, running 60m in total, until he's at the end of the tape. We then radio back to base where my coach counts up the totals on a whiteboard. – Welsh AlexBest way I've found is to get a map measure. You find them in outdoor pursuits sections

, and my field of vision is restricted to a 15° arc on either side of my nose.Until I wrecked my suspension during last year’s Swiss Alpine Sad Old Nutters’ 78K Marathon, my only serious running injury had been incurred while stretching. But now I was a