{"id":85,"date":"2014-09-26T15:07:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T13:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ace-club.org.za\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2014-09-26T15:07:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T13:07:39","slug":"training-tips-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ace-club.org.za\/?page_id=85","title":{"rendered":"Training Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ace-club.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Running-shoe-terms-300x171.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ace-club.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Running-shoe-terms-300x171.png\" alt=\"Running\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, researchers in Taiwan recruited volunteers for what they were told was health-related product testing. Their first task was to take a pill and rate its texture and colour; half were told it was a multivitamin, while the other half were told it was a placebo (which it was). During the next tests, the groups acted dramatically differently. When asked to test a pedometer, those who thought they\u2019d taken a vitamin were more likely to walk a shorter route; at lunch, they chose less healthy food. In a survey, they expressed greater feelings of invulnerability and less desire to exercise.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>What does this have to do with running?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Racing your best demands that you co-ordinate countless details of training and lifestyle \u2013 long runs, intervals, sleep, nutrition, and so on \u2013 that contribute to your performance. This study illustrates a phenomenon known as the \u2018licensing effect\u2019: doing something you believe will help you (like taking a vitamin) will subconsciously encourage you to slack off on other ways of achieving the same goal (like eating well).<\/p>\n<p>You must distinguish between the factors that matter for your fitness, and the ones you can ignore \u2013 because you\u2019re always making trade-offs. Here are three to watch out for:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, researchers in Taiwan recruited volunteers for what they were told was health-related product testing. Their first task was to take a pill and rate its texture and colour; half were told it was a multivitamin, while the other half were told it was a placebo (which it was). During the next<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ace-club.org.za\/?page_id=85\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ace-club.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ace-club.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ace-club.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ace-club.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ace-club.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ace-club.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ace-club.org.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}