How To Run a Marathon For Beginners: Your Step By Step Guide To Running a Marathon for Beginners

By HowExpert

If you want to know how to run a marathon, then get this step-by-step "How To Run a Marathon For Beginners" guide which depicts all sorts of different aspects and details of marathon running.

How To Run a Marathon For Beginners is a beautifully illustrated instructional guide. The guide provides useful tips and strategies for someone who wishes to run a marathon, as well as various ideas and proven solutions to problems a runner may be forced to face. The introduction of the book focuses on the many benefits and parts to running a marathon, and takes a look at what running a marathon can provide the average person with. It also gives suggestions for causes to run for and other meaningful advice regarding self-motivation and personal fitness goals in general.

The major sections that follow this brief but thorough introduction provide both diet and training plans that were tested personally by the author and are proven to work. These sections also depict the various nutrients that must be present in anyone’s healthy diet every day, as well as giving general guidelines regarding daily calorie consumption and composition for runners.

Other content included in the book would be helpful insight on the day of the marathon as well as suggestions about what to do once a runner has completed his or her first marathon and achieved his or her much desired goals.

About the Expert
Helen Nazarenko has moved about a lot and has lived in a variety of different places. However, it was only after settling down in New York that she actually began taking fitness and running more seriously. She is married and has one special daughter, Rose, who stars in many of the photos of this very book. Helen Nazarenko is a very motivational character and focuses on making people’s lives better through personal experiences. As an article writer as well, she has had a lot of experience writing on various topics from fashion to automobiles and has a large collection of written pieces that are just waiting to be published.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: HowExpert
• Release date: Apr 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781647588533

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Table of Contents

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Introduction

Why Run a Marathon?

Running with a Purpose

Important things to consider when running a marathon

Final checklist before your new lifestyle

List of Marathon Running Preparation Aspects

Training

What you will need

Know Your Situation

Pre-training

Avoiding Injuries

First Weeks in Detail

An Overall Training Schedule

Training Techniques

Diet and Nutrition

Hydration

Carbs, Protein, and Fat Ratios

Other Nutrients

Foods to Avoid

Extra Suggestions

Running the Marathon

The Night Before

The Big Day

What to Remember

Your Accomplishments

My Personal Story

About the Expert

Recommended Resources

Introduction

Why Run a Marathon?

So you want to run a marathon? Really? For what purpose? What made you agree to this seemingly unreasonable, challenging task and risk wasting a bunch of money and effort on something that some people might consider totally pointless?

Well, those people might not be stupid, but they are certainly making a big mistake in questioning the benefits of running a marathon. A marathon can play an amazing role in an individual’s life, whether that is visible from the very beginning or only shows up as the grand result at the very end.

So what are some of these amazing benefits of marathon running? Well, first of all, it’s great exercise. Even if you don’t need to lose weight and are already leading a healthy, balanced lifestyle, a marathon can be a fun challenge to try out. As for