{"id":34169,"date":"2015-09-23T18:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funfitnessafter50.com\/?p=34169"},"modified":"2015-09-23T18:46:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:46:53","slug":"how-positive-vocabulary-can-help-build-your-aerobic-endurance-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funfitnessafter50.com\/how-positive-vocabulary-can-help-build-your-aerobic-endurance-base\/","title":{"rendered":"How Positive Vocabulary Can Help Build Your Aerobic Endurance Base"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>The words you use<\/strong> to discuss something, even if it is just with yourself, can have significant influence on attitude, motivation, and results. Too often the vocabulary used when speaking of building an aerobic endurance base is limited to the concepts of slow and fast. In the running world, and any other sport where participation is timed, fast is assumed to be \u201cgood,\u201d but slow is \u201cbad.\u201d The truth is that slow and fast are only generally comparative terms and tell us little about the long term condition of a person and the sustainability of the acclaimed \u201cfast\u201d pace. This is especially true in the sphere of the recreational runner, where many times only the \u201cfast\u201d times are shared, with little background information or insight into repercussions a given person is dealing with in attaining a comparatively \u201cfast\u201d time in an event.<\/p>\n I do not use<\/strong> the term recreational runner in a derogatory manner. I proudly consider myself a recreational runner. No one pays me to exercise. I do it for fun and health benefits, and no one is signing me up for magazine covers. I find the status to be rewarding and comfortable. A lot of that comfort comes from now understanding how to run within my personal ability, while at the same time reaping the rewards of increasing that ability with minimal stress. If I have been understanding what I have been reading, it is apparently something I have in common with elite runners! Judging by my results<\/a><\/span>, it is working.<\/p>\n While on one hand<\/strong>, people may have to be encouraged to slow down, it is only compared to a \u201cfast\u201d pace that is too likely some combination of both a counterproductive and injurious training pace. I say \u201ctraining pace\u201d to refer to the average and goal paces that people set for themselves. I, like many others, have succumbed in the past to the thinking that unless I am straining to my limits regularly I am not really trying hard enough and am not going to get results. Another unnecessary stressor and disappointment for many people in adopting this approach is that any run of lesser speed is a waste, and a sign of loss of previous gains. While this article is not a thorough discussion of the hows and whys of building your endurance base, let me just say for now that there is scientific reason and observational evidence to question this presumption.<\/p>\n