To improve your overall fitness, you need to improve your base pace. What is "base pace"? Maggie Grover, head coach at the West Carmel/Zionsville Indiana Orangetheory Fitness (OTF) studio describes it as "your lowest working effort. The pace you should be able to hold, even if it gets a little uncomfortable, for 20-30 minutes.

OTF coaches often call base pace "challenging, but doable." As Maggie says, the challenge is mostly mental. She tells why that is and offers tips for pushing through the mental barrier.

In this podcast, you'll learn:

• How to know if your base pace is too low - and when you should bump it up
• Why it's important to be thinking about your next base when you're in a push effort
• How to tell if you've had a successful push
• When, and why, it's okay to drop your push down so you can maintain a solid base
• And what happens to little babies when you succeed in holding a higher base!

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