4 Habits my Most Successful Running Clients Live By

These 4 habits stand as pillars for my most successful running clients.

Doing the work is one thing. Making sure you do it time and time again, and doing it well… that’s another thing entirely.

Here are 4 easy and actionable behaviour tweaks you can implement into your training today.

Understand the workout before starting

Understanding the workout helps in setting realistic expectations and makes sure it gets done correctly.

All too often people miss reps or do too many because they didn’t fully grasp the workout before starting it. Our watch tells us what to do and when. This is cool, but what if we miss a beep or two?

It can get messy real quick.

Run first thing then get on with the day

Getting it done in the morning stops life from getting in the way.

How often has the work day gone to shit or things pop up throughout the day? Or getting to the evening and simply being too tired… Leaving the run til after work is bound to cause issues.

Get it done early and move on.

Address niggles early and thoroughly

Every month-long injury starts as a small pain.

A hotspot could take 10 mins to fix and a niggle could take 2 hours to fix. But you can keep running through both of them. An injury could take 6 weeks to fix and you may have to stop running.

The longer you leave it, the harder it is to shake.

Don’t overthink it - it’s just running

Left foot, right foot… that’s all it is.

There are so many moving parts in athletic development and we can sit here all day debating what caused X and why Y happened. But we’ll probably never know. Address the low hanging fruit and the repeating issues.

Don’t dwell on the rest.

Success in running is a choice. If you’re already doing the work you may as well do it well.