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WEIGHT LOSS AND MARATHON TRAINING

Weight Loss and Marathon Training

If your marathon training is motivated by the desire to improve your body image, you are not alone. I would say most of the marathoners I meet desire to achieve a more ideal body weight, and weight loss is a very legitimate goal for health and performance. If you are not losing weight with all your marathon training, you are training at the wrong pace, or following the wrong diet.

Performance in the marathon comes down to a key ratio between your body strength and your weight. Or in plain speak, how well your muscles can propel your body forward. There are two ways to improve your power to body weight ratio. You can increase your leg strength with a resistance-training program, https://phase-iv.com/strength-training-for-marathoners/ , you can lose body fat, or both.

While a developing a proper strength-training regime specifically for runners takes some careful consideration in design and execution, losing body fat should occur naturally with all the training hours involved with marathon preparation.

Weight Loss Myths

Most of the clients who come to us for weight loss are eating too little and working too hard to lose weight. Weight loss is not about calorie restriction, it is more about what you eat and the pace at which you train. The calories you burn during a workout are inconsequential to your body weight. Most, if not all, of the calories you burn while training must be replaced for you to recover and fuel your next workout. Instead, it is how effectively you use your workouts to reprogram your physiology to burn more calories 24/7.

Now it is easier than ever to achieve your ideal body weight while training for the marathon.

Conquering the “Fit but Fat Syndrome”

The Fit But Fat Syndrome is a result of ill advised training programs dictated by whim and not science, reliance on sports bars and drinks, working harder and harder, not smarter, too many intense workouts creating a metabolism dependent on carbohydrates not fats, inadequate base training, and calorie restriction causing your metabolism to idle.

At PHASE IV we teach you to achieve your ideal performance body weight and how to unlock the mysteries of your personal physiology. We re-engineer your sports nutrition so it is working for you not against you, and we optimize your fat burning potential with heart rate specific exercise intensities. With the perfect balance of metabolic training and recovery, your body will learn to burn fat all day long. Finally, through metabolic testing we determine the exact calories needed to fuel your workouts and lifestyle while managing your weight.

The calories you burn during workouts are inconsequential to your overall body weight or body fat content! Instead, it is how well you use your exercise time to reprogram your daily physiology that matters. The “Fit But Fat” Syndrome is attributable to improper training schedules and heart rate intensities that reek hormonal havoc! How hard you train, when you train, and how you schedule your workouts, all effect the production of stress hormones. Use the value of targeted heart rate training, proper nutrition, and strength training to conquer the “Fit But Fat” Syndrome!

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