Structure of the week

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Sophie Fitt, your coach at SheFitt has been coaching athletes for over 10 years.  

She’s been writing training plans for her patients in her podiatry clinic for more than 14 years and she’s been following running programs herself for over 20 years!  

Hence, she has tried, failed, tested and tried again a wide variety of running programs.  

This has led her to create training programs that are carefully structured with the following key goals in mind: 
- the training is achievable (amidst busy life, work, family schedules)  

 - the training is enjoyable 

 - risk of injury is minimised, as much as possible, and 

 - consistency can easily be achieved and maintained. 

Building fitness is all about stressing the body and then recovering from it.  

Stress, recovery, stress, recovery... 

That’s why following the program to the best of your ability will enable you to get the most out of it. Each week is carefully structured to ensure a run is followed by the opportunity to recover from it, on a rest day.  

Sophie understands better than anyone how life, work, family & illness are just some of the factors that can derail even the most ambitious plans to get out and squeeze a run in, so she urges you to be kind to yourself! If you need to swap or skip a day, then do so.  

However, running every second day, or no more than two days back-to-back, is critical for allowing recovery to occur which lowers injury risk and helps promote consistent training.   

Your SheFitt program takes all the thinking out of from planning your running week- so all you need to do is follow the program and embrace your fitness as it develops!