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Niquole A.

How long can you go without running?

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If you start running and stop for a few days, how long before the muscles begin to revert to their pre-running state? Say you injury yourself on Monday and cant run again until Saturday, how much progress does your body lose from being inactive? How long before you're back to square one?

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  Gary S.

  When you first start running and take time off that's close to a week, you'll probably be at the same level as when you started. However if you're injuried you want to take the rest time to avoid further injury. Once completely healthy try runnng every other day for starting out. Mix a walk in with your run. Soon enough you'll see the endurance pick up.

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  Erik K.

  I read a study a few months ago on this issue. It showed, like Gary pointed out, that you don't loose anything significant for a week. After that, it goes pretty quick with being forced to go back to starting levels at 4 or 5 weeks. But even then if you don't wait too long you can regain that progress faster coming back.

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