Physio and Therapy

London Marathon Training Programme

This page is dedicated to the first time London marathon runner through to the god club runner… the programme is written by Exercise Physiologists and Physiotherapists so its not only going to develop your fitness specifically for the marathon, its aimed at maintaining an injury free route through to the start-line.

Regardless of the time you wish to achieve, you must adhere to some golden rules.

• Change your intensity each week. Easy, Medium, Hard, Easy, Medium, Hard!
• Slowly increase the amount of running you do, don’t forget cross training!
• Slowly increase your mileage, your body cant cope with longer every week
• Think nutrition, your bones need more calcium, your muscles need carbs!
• REST is the most important training session in your programme
• WEAR THE CORRECT SHOES
• HAVE REGULAR MASSAGE
• BUT, most of all, see a running specialist before you start, to check your posture, muscle balance, core strength and injury correction. Running GAIT education will save you from injury

So here we go...

• London Marathon Training week 1
• London Marathon Training week 2
• London Marathon Training week 3
• London Marathon Training week 4
• London Marathon Training week 5
• London Marathon Training week 6
• London Marathon Training week 7
• London Marathon Training week 8
• London Marathon Training week 9
• London Marathon Training week 10