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I think most runners have come to realize the benefits of incorporating strength exercises into their training. (If not, read here.) From better performance, injury prevention, to improving balance and just feeling better, adding strength training will simply help you run better. But in spite of all that I still hear from runners that don’t strength train. They have many excuses reasons, but the ones I hear the most are lack of time and lack of equipment. Well, guess what? Those are no longer valid excuses reasons! I’ve put together this list of the five most important strength exercises for
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As a coach, one of the soap boxes I often stand upon and shout from is about the importance of strength training for runners. I truly believe that resistance training -whether body weight or with strength training equipment – is absolutely vital for injury prevention and success for all runners. Naturally, one of the questions I’m often asked is “but how do you balance ultramarathon and strength training?” It’s a great question. Between the added time commitment and increased stress of training for an ultra, it can almost seem impossible to figure out how to balance the two. Believe me, I get it. Story time (isn’t it always story time around here?): During the summer of 2012 I filmed a series of commercials/promotional videos for a trail running shoe company. In one of them, the very first voice over (my voice) says something along the lines of “I never was a fan of lifting cast iron weights, or tugging against man made steel contraptions.” (click here to see the video). It wasn’t untrue: back then, I really wasn’t a fan of the gym. What little strength training I did involved jumping around in the woods (I was a burpee queen!). These days, however, I’m a legitimate gym rat. I love the high of a good lift almost (but not quite) as much as the high of a good run. I love hitting new strength PR’s. I love the gym atmosphere. I love looking in the mirror and actually seeing visible physical gains. Vain? Yes…but the honest truth. I have found both physical and emotional strength in a regular weight lifting routine, and I can’t imagine my life without it. But I also love training for ridiculously long distance races. And the truth is, balancing both can be difficult, especially as your running mileage increases during a training cycle. If I – a woman who essentially makes her own schedule and works part time IN A GYM – has trouble balancing running and strength training, I can only imagine how difficult it must be for those who have even more limited schedules. So how DO you balance training for an ultramarathon and strength training? Here are a few tips that have helped me over the last few years. Keep Your “A” Goal In Mind I think one of the most frequently used exercise science terms you’ll find on this very blog is the “principle of specificity”. This principle states that the adaptation of the body or change in physical fitness is specific to the type of training undertaken. In other words, your training needs to be specific to your goal in order to succeed. An Olympic gymnast may be incredibly fit, but that doesn’t mean he/she has the specific fitness to successfully run a 50 miler. I like to point this principle out often because there is a common misunderstanding that fitness is fitness, it should all count, right? Well to an extent, it does: from a health …
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Todd Durkin, MA, CSCS, is offering up simple ways you can supplement your equipment-based exercises with at-home workouts.
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Target multiple muscle groups, increase strength, and build lean muscle with these 7 strength training exe
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