Three tips for running 5km in 20 minutes

Monitoring your daily training will guide you in achieving this goal

Much more than a simple exercise for pleasure, in short, running has positive effects on health, such as strengthening and toning muscles, preventing cardiovascular diseases, maintaining weight and other benefits.

He is also recognized for constantly challenging amateur and professional athletes and in this sense Sport Life will share three tips for running 5km in 20 minutes with the help of personal trainer Cássio Fidlay.

Learn three tips for running 5km in 20 minutes

Long-term planning

“No one can run overnight, but it’s not a big deal either. The first step is to start training at least a month or two before race day or whenever you need to run that distance. We need to practice in a place, which the route is easy and flat so you can monitor the pace of how long it takes to complete one kilometre”, advised Cássio in an exclusive interview with Sport Life.

800 meters

“The ideal would be to train on a running track where you do a complete 800 meter lap. If there is no running track nearby, determine a point where the start and finish of the 800 meters will take place” , the expert said.

Keep the pace

Therefore, Cássio concluded that the ideal is to be able to maintain a pace of 3 minutes and 10 seconds in all laps of the 800 meters. Up to covering 5 km, which in total will take 20 minutes. “Every time you complete the 800 meters, you see how long it took you.”

Given

It is the set of information “connected” with the national trend. Data from TicketSports, a sales platform for registrations for sporting events, shows that there are 13 million runners spread across Brazil.

Source: Terra

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