6 psychological tips to run 10 and 15 km

• May 5, 2024

In our past, survival was linked to movement therefore the human body is designed to travel between 10 and 15 kilometers a day; so suggests Alejandro Lucía, Professor of Exercise Physiology at the European University of Madri d. However, what prevents you from winning a race?

The specialist suggests that running through evolution is found in our genetics, but sedentary and easy life hinders its development not only physically but also psychologically.

GetQoralHealth presents you with 6 tips that will help you overcome mental barriers and thus achieve your goal: win a race.

1. What is your best motivation? All the reasons are good, either to improve your health or to look great in that bikini. Remember the most important thing is "change". The body has no limits, who imposes them is the mind.

2. Internal struggle The sports psychologist and runner Tomás Vich, maintains that the human being seeks to fight and achieve goals. Therefore, running means overcoming the laziness of work days and evolving. Running allows you to achieve goals and to achieve them increase your self-esteem.

3. Objectives. Running is a personal job, therefore only you must establish the goal; example, to arrive, it does not matter if you are the first or the last one, it takes you an hour or five, your goal is to arrive and that is how you will achieve it. This idea is a way to win a race against yourself.

4. Feeling of competition. To achieve the goals it is necessary to be competitive not with those around us but with ourselves.

5. Pleasure. To enjoy a triumph, it is not necessary to suffer. Running should be an activity that gives you a feeling of tranquility and joy, this will motivate you to do it every day.

6. Will my body tolerate it? The main impediments to reaching a goal are your thoughts. If you did a workout you should not worry. Remove that negative attitude and achieve your goals.

Prove that the only limit is your mind, for that we invite you to participate in the 13th edition of the Group career Image in Mexico City on April 14, 2013.
 

The benefits of running can be infinite; however, this physical activity is a competition with yourself. Enjoy and live!

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