Does the idea of running strike fear into your heart? This is your plan! A program for a new exerciser or someone with very little fitness background. This plan blends running and walking, and other optional forms of non-impact cardio training, plus suggested resistance training days, to progress you to completion of your first half marathon and improve your all-around running ability. The goal of this plan is to make you a confident runner and to prepare you to run a half marathon from start to finish, with no walk-breaks and without needing to stop in the middle to catch your breath.
Training Plan Information:
3 days per week running
16 total weeks, with your first half marathon on week 16.
Starting weekly running mileage: 2.5 Mile
Highest weekly running mileage: 23 Miles
Lowest single-session running mileage: 1200 meters (broken up in smaller pieces in Week 1)
Highest single-session running mileage: 12 Miles (broken up in smaller pieces in Week 15)
Recommended Prerequisites to use this training plan:
Users should be able to successfully jog about 400 meters without stopping (no time/pace requirement).
Users should be able to walk about 1.5 miles in one session (no time/pace requirement, stops okay).
We recommend that you move up to the "Beginner" training plan series if you currently do, or have done in the last 6 months, any one of the following or any combination of the following:
Run 3 Miles without stopping (no pace requirement).
Run 4 miles per week, or more, as a part of your fitness routine.
Exercise vigorously with other forms of cardiovascular exercise like cycling/spinning, rowing or some form of "functional fitness," 4 or more hours per week.
Suggested RP Diet Products to pair with this training plan:
RP Diet Templates for Fat Loss, which comes with a Maintenance option.
or, RP 1:1 Diet Coaching
or, (coming soon!) RP Endurance Diet Products
Suggested RP Training Products:
Male and Female Physique Training Templates
or, Weightlifting Hypertrophy and Strength Templates
or, Powerlifting Hypertrophy, Strength, and Peaking Templates
or, Weight Training for Endurance Athletes Templates (coming soon!)
or, RP 1:1 Training Coaching
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