By normie.fitness on Skatehive
Not so long ago I took the advice of some studies and started to do zone 2/3 endurance runs where the only objective was for me to stay in a certain beats per minute (BPM) with my heart and not focus on my pace at all. It's all about going for longer than you normally would and just maintaining a pace that your body can endure long-term and therefore the exercise itself is benefiting you, but it also isn't really all that difficult. In the past I had done 5k runs as fast as I could and was wearing myself out trying to out-do what I had done the week before. With these endurance runs, it isn't really up to me how fast I am going to be moving. It is up to the physical limitations of my heart and my cardiovascular system as a whole. At first I found it boring but it is far less taxing on my body than what I was doing before and just "legging it" as fast as I could for a 5k. Now when I head out my objective is to run for an hour at a certain BPM and this particular time, which was yesterda