103. Your Sport Already Trains Your Sport. Strength Training Is for Everything Else.
Your sport already trains your sport. Strength training is for everything else. In this episode, Dr. Liz Koch, DPT, explains the difference between sport-specific training and the strength work hikers, trail runners, mountain bikers, and paddlers actually need: the things your sport doesn't train, for your performance, your tissues, and your bones and muscle for life.
What the research found: a 2002 study in the journal Bone (Warner and colleagues) compared 16 competitive mountain bikers, 14 road cyclists, and 15 active men. After adjusting for body weight and age, the mountain bikers had…
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