Episode 47: Ideal Strength Training for Runners

The Strength Running Podcast · Dec 19, 2017 · 17m

Cross-training is supplemental exercise that can be helpful to your running, like cycling.

But just like form drills, strides, or dynamic flexibility exercises, I consider strength training to be an integral part of how to train distance runners.

If you're not strength training, then you're not training.

Running by itself only gets you so far. It's a fairly one-dimensional form of exercise, after all.

If you look at how pro runners train (hell, even high school runners), you'll see a lot of "other things" in their training:

Form drills

Plyometrics

Bodyweight strength workouts

Mobility…