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Our online training sessions can help advance your level in all sports activities. Read more here -> Online Fitness Training

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With a versatile and holistic approach, Furness Active helps everyone from adult fitness classes, personal training right through to professional athletes. Delivering speed, strength, conditioning and skills coaching to improve performance in any sport. For more details visit our site - http://www.furnessactive.co.uk/

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For runners, “training” means running. But alongside running it’s great for runners to have a good mix of activities as part of their training including strength training and conditioning. Not only does it help prevent injury by mixing up the demands placed upon your body from repetitive activity, but it also gives the opportunity to build strength, flexibility and other aspects of fitness that will actually help your running.

It may seem like a no-brainer, but strength training helps you run faster! Strength training places stress on your body in the form of resistance (weights), which prompts your body to adapt and make changes in order to increase its ability to withstand that stress. Strength training also increases your muscular endurance and anaerobic power, making it easier to tackle that final kick in a race.

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There are many options when it comes to exercising but, although exercise classes and gym sessions are increasingly popular, there is growing evidence to suggest that exercising outdoors is even better for our health. After all, exercising outdoors may improve energy levels and decrease stress to a greater extent than working out inside.

While there’s no question that there’s a time and place for the treadmill and the elliptical, there’s nothing quite like surrounding yourself with greenery and breathing in fresh air. It clears your head, improves your happiness, and helps you drop stress like nothing else. Read the full blog post to read benefits of working out outdoors.

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How long should it take a beginner to run 5K? - Furness Active

For runners, competing in a 5K race has become a favorite goal. It is because the distance is short enough that even beginners can build up enough stamina, strength, and skill to be ready to compete in a few months. No matter if you are beginner to running or a seasoned athlete; you may have wondered how long it’s likely …

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Every beginner runner is concerned with two things: running farther and running faster. And that’s fair enough. Every runner irrespective of his/her age and experience has this goal. And being a runner, one might never feel like has made it. Your pace and distance ambitions will grow over time. To achieve any such ambitions and goals as a runner, the …

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Our online training plan for speed and agility is not just about a collection of drills. Through our training plan, you’re going to learn with the knowledge of exactly how to reprogram your training routine and learn speed & agility to perfection.

The Speed and Agility online training plan is a cutting-edge step-by-step training system that combines all the necessary components of athletic speed development, combining linear speed, multi-directional speed, explosiveness, and injury prevention into a strategic, easy to implement program that will allow you to reach your performance potential.