How to become a jogger?

make sure you streach out your legs before going especially your calfs. Mine get supper tight if I don't streach them. Then start by doing intervals, walk for 5 mins jog for 1-2 mins and build up from there.

There's a great program that I've seen a lot of other posters mention here called c25k (or something like that). I'm slowly building up my endurance to be a jogger, and basically, I just started by walking fast and then adding a minute or two of jogging. I go very slow, probably about 5mph. And I started out just going until I felt like I had to stop, which was usually after a couple of minutes and just built up from there. So I would walk for several minutes, then jog for a minute or two. The treadmill is easier than outside for sure and easier to track time and speed. nothing really too scientific with my approach

I think the key is to start slow and listen to your body. I found that a lot of the structured training schedules were too aggressive for me. After a little over 2 months, I have gotten to the point where I can easily jog a mile straight on the treadmill and probably could do far more if I pushed myself. And when I walk/jog outside, I spend about 1/3-1/2 of my time jogging in anywhere from 2-10 minute spurts.

Good luck. It feels really good once you get going!

Just start slow, don't try to run it all at once. And jog slower than you feel like you should be jogging (ie. this does not have to be a sprint), and you can last longer! Check out this article:

http://www.active.com/running/Articles/How-to-Start-Running-Today.htm

Good Luck! Ashley

I feel like I am far from being considered a 'runner' myself, but here's what has worked for me: When I started, I just went as far as I could. (At first, that wasn't much further than just to the end of the block.) I jogged that distance for three days/runs. Then, I went one block further, and did that for three days/runs. It didn't take long to increase that distance and to feel comfortable with it. I always just try to do MY best on any particular day. Sometimes its further, sometimes it's faster, other times... not so much. :-) But, that's the best thing about running -- the only person you ever really need to compete against or prove anything to is yourself. So, just start with whatever you can do, and go from there. Good luck, and happy running!

Run a little - walk a little - run a little - walk a little. Repeat as necessary and don't push yourself to the point that you dread your workout.

As you progress you'll find yourself walking less and less until you rarely feel the need to walk at all.

I am googling it now! I know I will not loose all my weight and keep it off unless I start jogging or at least during the warm months.

I'm 320+ lbs. Today the wind is blowing, the rain is falling and it's cold outside. Today I started week 5 of Couch to 5K. I'm loving it so far and after many attempts to begin this programme this is the farthest I've ever got into the programme.

I'm dreading getting to the 9th week because I'll be at a loss to what to do. May be I need a few 5K races to do then start the bridge to 10k programme!

It's so nice and no matter how hard I find it, the feeling I get after a run is so immense it's worth the pain/exhaustion .... in fact the exhaustion has subsided I feel much better now after a run than I did at week 1.

The thing I've learned is ... whilst I can run faster than I do, I don't because I want to complete the WHOLE run for the day without stopping. I promise myself that I will work on getting faster after I finish week 9. I also do some of my runs on the treadmill varying my gradients.

I do 3 C25k runs per week (as I'm supposed to) but on 'rest days' I sometimes will repeat week 1 or week 2 on a treadmill, but do so on a high gradient and faster speed so as to increase my fitness. If that makes any sort of sense!

Cheers.