How to Prepare the Week of a Marathon

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Carlos Davila, and I'm a personal trainer in New York City. In this next clip we are going to talk about preparing the week of a marathon. So you've had your four to six week training, you are waiting seven days left, what am I going to do this last week. You don't necessarily want to completely stop running but you really want to taper down your running. By the last week you've already done your nineteen, twenty mile runs. So you are keeping it at about five to six miles during the last week. You also want to focus on stretching. You want to get as flexible as possible during that last week. So you want to stretch a lot that last week, take yoga, things of that nature to really increase your flexibility and get you ready for that long haul. You also want to make sure that you are starting to increase your carb intake that last week. So that when you get to the marathon your body is prepared to expend that amount of energy. So increasing your carb during that week is going to help with that. This is Carlos Davila personal trainer, New York City."