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Tips For Losing Weight Through Running

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ou can run to lose weight, it’s just the kind of running you’re doing that’s important. Plodding around the park for 15 minutes a couple of times a week will get you nowhere, but sprinting could be a literal fast track to weight loss. Just take it from British Olympic sprinter Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (known to his friends as Harry AA), a multi-time gold, silver, and bronze medalist in the European Championships and Commonwealth Games. He’s hitting 11.6 metres per second.

By comparison, some of us can’t to get out of our chair in that time. If you’re going for 30-minute runs and focusing on distances it’s going to be a struggle to lose weight. Casual jogging or running is not time efficient, because you’re not burning calories or building a physique. For fat loss, you technically have to be in some sort of calorie deficit – expending [energy] to a certain degree and consuming a controlled amount of food. With sprinting and sprint training, you’re more inclined to lose weight.

But there’s more to it than just running fast and hoping your gut can’t keep up. A schedule of three workouts per week: a gym session, a technical session, and an endurance session. Here are some tips for losing weight through running.