When starting a running program, injury-free training should be your main goal—especially if you’re overweight and really out-of-shape. While running is the perfect cardio training workout for losing weight and keeping it off for good, its high intensity and impact nature can cause a bundle of injuries and health difficulties.

As a result, here are 3 training guidelines to help you start and keep running while reducing the likelihood of injuries and burnouts.

Build the Intensity Up Gradually

As an overweight person, you may not able to hand the stress of running. The

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I define cardio machine addiction as performing the same routine on typical cardio machines (treamills, ellipticals, and stationary bikes) on a regular basis without achieving any results.

Back when I belonged to a gym, I was extremely excited to have all of the equipment available for my use. However, after a few weeks, I started to realize that I was only utilizing the cardio machines. In my mind, I figured exercise was exercise and I didn’t need to lift weights or try anything different. So every day, I got on a treadmill, ran for 20 – 30 minutes and left.

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When it comes to doing cardio for weight loss, proper nutrition is as important as the training itself. If you’re trying to lose weight, your cardio routine is just one piece of the puzzle, you need to back your training program with the proper diet. And here is why: In order to lose weight, you need to burn off more calories than you put in. that’s it. And it’s no secret. This is what is known as the energy deficit in the fitness circles.

Nevertheless, if you fail to properly address your nutritional needs—especially when doing cardio on a regular basis, then you won’t get far down the road. Starving yourself won’t help you lose weight. But quite t

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The other day a prospective client walked into my office to sit down and talk about her struggles getting in shape. She is a bright girl with a very bubbly personality, except talking about getting rid of her “chunky thighs” as she called them was a sore subject.

“Sara”, let’s just call her, is by no means heavily overweight. She has a normal upperbody with a slim waist but she obviously carries her weight on the lower half. She began to tell me how she tried program A, worked out with personal trainer B, runs 3 times per week, spin classes, etc. Needless

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