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Why Runners Should Strength Train

Lifting will not make you slow or bulky. Done properly, it makes you more resistant to injury, more economical at pace, and more able to hold form when you are tired.

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How Often Should Runners Lift Weights?

Two sessions a week, most weeks, is the honest answer for most runners. Here is how that changes across a season — and what to do when the running block gets heavy.

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Does Strength Training Make You Faster?

The mechanism is running economy, not raw power. What that means in practice, how big the effect is likely to be, and where the evidence is less settled than the internet suggests.

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Technique, race preparation, recovery and the sessions that actually move the needle.

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Lifting for runners: what to do, how often, and why it makes you faster rather than heavier.

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Strength

Why Runners Should Strength Train

Lifting will not make you slow or bulky. Done properly, it makes you more resistant to injury, more economical at pace, and more able to hold form when you are tired.

4 min read

Strength

How Often Should Runners Lift Weights?

Two sessions a week, most weeks, is the honest answer for most runners. Here is how that changes across a season — and what to do when the running block gets heavy.

3 min read