The most common Errors of the Broker.

There are mistakes that are repeated over and over again in the world of the popular runner. We review them in this article in which the author also emphasizes what he believes should be the keys to training the popular runner: the search for an improvement in our health and personal satisfaction.

Text: Jeronimo Bravo

We are going to review below some of the most typical mistakes popular runners make, and we will do so by dividing them into two types:

– Concept errors.

- Self-concept errors.

Concept errors

Among the misconceptions we can list the following:

- The training itself is not the end of every session. The keys must be not to do a training session that is incredibly good that day, but to carry out a training session that, on the one hand, makes us enjoy, on the other hand helps us to improve and, of course, that does not take us to the brink of excessive exhaustion.

- The trainings have to serve to "charge" our batteries, not to discharge them. A continuous training above our tolerance in the medium or long term can lead us to a sensation of chronic fatigue that will lead to over training.

- Performance is not the key in preparing a popular broker. The keys must be, in equal percentage of importance, the search for an improvement in our health and personal satisfaction.

- One of the most frequent mistakes in runners who are in their first years of practice is not being objective about ourselves and thinking that the improvement will be unlimited and endless. In the first 2 or 3 years of their running age most of the r they are in a “high” phase, in which the continuous improvement and the new sensations they experience, which are increasingly positive, leads them to enter a frantic spiral and a kind of obsession with running. At this time, a capacity for self-reflection that gives us an objective perspective on ourselves will be key to our continuity over time as runners.

- To think that we already know everything: as human as breathing is to think that we are already prepared to be able to advise, give opinions and assert on almost any subject, and this running is no exception. However, although experiential learning is one of the forms of proven research, we must be careful when transferring our experiences to others. r, thinking that our "reality" is the only one and true. Let's not forget that there are professionals in areas such as training methodology, physiology, physiotherapy, etc. that they are the ones who really have to be our advisers or advisers or that of other brokers.