How to Use Your Mind Relax during an endurance race

Have you ever run or walk a marathon, half marathon or other endurance events and be so tense that the stride length became shorter than normal?

This reduction step comes from being too tense. It can be very frustrating, because it is necessary to increase the cadence to keep the same pace. But you can increase the frequency of tension which can lead to a further reduction of stride length.

Instead you have never seen a track - for example, a sprint of 100 meters -in slow motion and I noticed this about the winner of the race?

The face of the winner was relaxed and smooth, almost floating in the wind.
The winner was the head upright and relaxed, without tension in the neck - at least until maybe the end of the race when the winner was, not in its neck to reach the finish line.
The winners were the hands relaxed, not tense or strained.

If this level of relaxation is important for the elite sprinter who rides for under tenSeconds, then it should make sense that this degree of relaxation - in other words, the absence of tension - it is important for endurance runners and walkers, the race for up to several hours at a time.

A 1999 study of sub-elite endurance runners from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, published in Medicine and Science of sports and concluded that these runners could run its economy by using relaxation techniques to improve theBiofeedback heart rate, VO2 and ventilation - all running on VO2submax.

"Running Economy" how oxygen is required to run a certain speed measured by a decrease in oxygen demand shows a growing economy running.
"Heart rate (HR) in beats per minute is how to obtain and measure, the race in just a few: wearing a heart - heart rate monitor (like a belt around your chest, wirelesscommunicates with a wrist unit that shows the heart rate) or by counting the number of beats in six seconds in the pulse point on the wrist and then multiplied by ten.
"Ventilation" - also - known by physiologists as "ventilatory volume (VE) which actually refers to an air exchange rate, usually measured in liters per minute, and that is the product of" ventilatory frequency (VF), measured measured in breaths per minute and tidal volume (TV), usually in liters per Breath.
"VO2 is a measure of volume of oxygen through the body in a minute.
'VO2max' refers to the maximum volume of oxygen per minute at maximum stress (final practice) can be consumed, and can be increased with the right kind of training.
"VO2submax" refers to a rate of oxygen consumption, less than VO2max.

Since the study annexed to New Zealand on a treadmill in a laboratory guide with tools to measure it has been made> Heart rate, etc., as you can apply the results of this study Sprinter - as well as your slow motion analysis - for their race or walk down the street or trail in a long distance race?

First, recognize that you are using your mind to relax with a long distance race.

Second, consider that attention to certain physiological factors that give the characteristic of your level of relaxation:

Heartbeat
Breathing
VoltageFace, neck and hands

Third, these physiological factors to monitor in endurance racing, so that mentally you drive towards greater relaxation. And you can go to the good learning and practicing relaxation biofeedback-based, while stationary.