Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong. I'm the Get Fit Guy and training slowly has been often seen as a sign of weakness or laziness.

However, if you want to run or bike or swim faster, a smart approach is to actually slow down

and train slowly by slowly.

In the article How to Start Running, well, you learned how to get started, and you gathered

some important tips on how to be efficient and strong.

Then the article How to Run Faster offered you

six quick and dirty tips to run faster for longer without getting tired. Let me highlight those

six tips right now. Tip number one was lose weight or body fat. Think about carrying a bag of

potatoes up a flight of stairs. Compared with simply carrying

your body weight, the consequences of lifting one, five, or ten extra pounds with each step

can have you instantly huffing and puffing. You can find out more about that in the article

can losing weight make you run faster. Now tip number two for running faster You can find out more about that in the article, Can Losing Weight Make You Run Faster?

Now, tip number two for running faster is increase your cadence.

The fastest runners in the world have a few defining characteristics,

and one is that they take more steps per minute than the rest of us. In running terms, that means they

have a higher cadence, and specifically a cadence around 90 steps per minute on one foot or

180 on both feet has been found to be ideal. Tip number three for running faster is use a treadmill.

Including tempo runs, which is where you set the treadmill to a slightly faster speed than you're comfortable with,

can actually train your nerves and muscles in your legs to move faster.

Since there are no stoplights or street crossings on a treadmill, this can give you time to help you

focus on your proper running form. And you can find out more about that in the article,

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