Jogging 500m

This will sound daft but does jogging about 500 m increase fitness at all, even a tiny bit? Ive started jogging every week but am supposed to be running twice a week but instead of going for a jog the second time this week I took he dog for a walk and found this grassy area which is about 500m in length lol so just had a quick jog :p:

Reply 1

dh00001

16

jogging 500m? your kiddding right. sprint it much better

Reply 2

Anonymous #1

OP

dh00001

jogging 500m? your kiddding right. sprint it much better

Well maybe for you but I can only usually jog about 3 miles, I was out of breath and my heart was thumping fast so im wondering if it did any good at all? Maybe I ran a bit faster than a jog.

Reply 3

Anonymous #1

OP

Ok, I was out of breath though, more out of breath than when I finish a 3 mile run which is odd lol so maybe I ran a bit faster.

Reply 4

dogtag9

mate, jogging 500m as a beginner i think is alright. fitness is a gradual process and forcing yourself wouldnt make you enjoy the whole thing. i started serious training about 2yrs ago because i was considering joining the marine reserves. i guess i ran less than 500m on the first day. i was too eager to run fast so i attempted the 1.5mile required by the marines the following day.i found it hard and got put off for training for a few months. i started again at a gradual process as suggested by a mate and now im enjoying the whole thing. i do nearly 4miles twice a week and hardly fall out of breath. the message is,just start at your own pace and progress from there and you will enjoy it rather than hurting to body each day

Reply 5

biscuitking

Tbh I tried and I can't run more than around 500m before being exhausted :redface:

but I'm trying a little more, especially as exams are now over :cool:

I find I'm able to do more and more, not significantly more, but I can see it improving. it's still pathetic compared to what others my age can do :frown:

Reply 6

pbrown

Depends how fast you ran. 500m isn't bad if you've never run before. Try going a bit further each time

Reply 7

assaps

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anything that makes you out of breath is good. better effort than someone like me. ideally, you want to spend all the time you're on www.studentroom.co.uk jogging then you'll be fit in no time :smile:

Reply 8

puppy

500m is pretty much a sprint distance. Start at a km at least and work up. 500m will do very little as it'll take you about 3 minutes to run that which won't get your heartrate to cardio training levels or burn more than about 50 calories (if you're lucky)

Reply 9

*titanium*

12

1 workout is never going to increase your fitness much, you could have run 10km, if its done once it iwll not give you much, its about pushing yourself hard and doing it regularly.

I do a lot of cycling, im far from my peak right now due to exams, but when i am at my peak and cycle 90km in 5 hours 30min (1km offroad =2km onroad because its harder) this is like 180km on road. Do you think if i was to cycle 180km it would incrase my fitness? no it would not because once you reach a high levle its hard to improve further. I would certainly need to increase the distance and effort levle.

The key to improveing your fitness is pushing yourself harder and harder.

Reply 10

Anonymous #1

OP

assaps

anything that makes you out of breath is good. better effort than someone like me. ideally, you want to spend all the time you're on www.studentroom.co.uk jogging then you'll be fit in no time :smile:

This is the only relevant comment so far :p:

I AM jogging regular I usually do about 2 - 3 miles once a week, its just Ive started to do twice a week but today I only did about 500 - 800 metres of jogging, Im wondering if this has contributed to my fitness or not done anything at all as its so short. My heart rate went really high.

Reply 11

Abdominal

Why on earth do you need to be anonymous to talk about jogging?

Build yourself up, but push yourself at the same time, as running comfortably will mean that you are not getting the best out of your run.

Reply 12

Fluent in Lies

2

Maybe through golden syrup...

Reply 13

jermay88

2

are you kidding? Everyday I run 2km on my tredmil. I sometimes get my heartbeat higher than the recommended for my age, which is 203 per minute. Now THAT is what will make you fit! You need a aerobic exercise.

Ooh lah dee dah.

jermay88

are you kidding? Everyday I run 2km on my tredmil. I sometimes get my heartbeat higher than the recommended for my age, which is 203 per minute. Now THAT is what will make you fit! You need a aerobic exercise.

That would be an-aerobic exercise, no?

Aerobic is within a 60-80% threshold. Anything higher is an-aerobic.

-edit-

Maybe you meant an-aerobic? I see an "a" :wink:

Reply 16

ajaydean

so long as you are out of breath every time you run your getting trained.
If someone can only do 5 pressups then doing 10 will be a lot of good training for your arms. However if someone who can do 50 1handed pressups does 10 they will not benefit at all.

Push yourself, you will get fit.

Reply 17

Leigh

15

Good job you posted this anonymous, sure as hell is embarrasing :rolleyes:

Reply 18

*titanium*

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jermay88

are you kidding? Everyday I run 2km on my tredmil. I sometimes get my heartbeat higher than the recommended for my age, which is 203 per minute. Now THAT is what will make you fit! You need a aerobic exercise.

You should run for real, i dont want to have to go in to the physics of why treadmills suck, as i have done so on another thread, but they do because your are not moveing your body, and there is no air resistance, you are just moving your feet forward and nothing more.

It is not a very hard workout, thats why you can go so much longer and hwy you only reached 203 BPM when i do rela excersize, if i sprint iv reached over 220.

Before you try to argue this, as i know you will, just go outside and go for a job and notice how much harder it is then using a treadmill!

Reply 19

Wineblood

Would jogging more often be of any benefit if you can't jog for that long ?? Like, doing a small bit of running quite often. I plan on jogging twice a day, is that too much to start at ??

Also, to whoever said 500m was a sprint distance, that's wrong. About a third of that would be a sprinting distance. 500m would be more of a running distance.

Jogging 500m

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