<\/noscript>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\nWHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO KEEP WARM DURING RUNS?<\/h3>\n When your skin gets cold, your blood moves away from the surface of your skin to stay warm. This reduces your ability to pump blood around the body, which reduces your capacity for maximal exercise. Meaning that it’s either harder to work at your desired intensity, or the same work rate will elicit a lower intensity. By wearing extra clothing (or kitting yourself out in SKINS), you increase the skin’s temperature and let your blood run more freely around the body. In turn, this allows more oxygen to get to the muscles and improves performance for the session.<\/p>\n
During your session, it’s also a good idea to try and keep blood flow as high as possible. This will enable the muscle to function at a higher capacity and help remove waste products from the muscles. SKINS compression garments are specifically engineered to regulate your body temperature and increase blood flow.<\/p>\n
In addition, increasing blood flow by wearing extra clothing and keeping your SKINS on in your warm downs, especially on your legs, will remove more waste products from your muscles and improve your recovery from sessions. This is the same when it comes to your easy runs, and your recovery runs too. By keeping your muscles warm, you can ensure that your body is in a better state for the next session you have on your schedule.<\/p>\n
BEST PRACTICES<\/h3>\n In terms of best practice, I recommend keeping your legs covered when warming up for races, sessions, parkruns, etc. I’d also recommend that you keep your legs covered for your easy jogs, any time you spend doing drills before the session and your strides before the session.<\/p>\n
During your intervals sessions, you should either wear Long Tights or Half Tights. It’s tough to strike a balance between your thermal comfort needs and what feels fast to wear, but I would recommend keeping your legs as warm as possible! Similarly, I would recommend wearing jumpers, 1\/4 zips or jackets on the top half. If you’re trying to stay as aero as possible, then take a look at SKINS Thermal Long Sleeve tops.<\/p>\n
Remember – by wrapping up warmer; you will get more out of your sessions, race with higher quality, and recover better too.<\/strong><\/p>\nSKINS\u2122 SERIES-3<\/h2>\n SKINS SERIES-3<\/a> is designed by runners for runners and has everything you need to help with those marginal gains Coach Joshua talks about. The range focuses on medium-high gradient compression garments to regulate your body temp and increase your blood flow. It also includes thermal compression if you’re running in really cold temperatures, and it’s also where you’ll find our activewear (to make sure you’re completely kitted out).<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coach Joshua discusses what kit you should be wearing during runs to take advantage of those all-important marginal gains… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,143,144,345,145,268],"tags":[127,133,128,129,137,131,269,270],"class_list":["post-40850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-compression-sportswear","category-performance","category-recovery","category-running","category-skins","category-skins-head-running-coach","tag-compression","tag-compression-sportswear","tag-performance","tag-recovery","tag-running","tag-skins","tag-skins-head-running-coach","tag-training-plan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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