Strength
5 Strength Benchmarks Every Runner Should Try
Five tests that tell you whether your strength work is actually working. Not a competition — a baseline you can re-test in twelve weeks.
Topic
Programming
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.
Performance
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.
Training
Running vs Strength: How to Balance Both
The interference effect is real but smaller than the internet thinks. The practical problem is recovery, and it is solved by scheduling rather than by choosing.
Training
The Complete Athlete: Where Strength Meets Endurance
Specialising works until it does not. What a complete athlete actually looks like, and why the middle ground is more useful than either extreme.
Triathlon
Strength Training for Triathletes
Three sports already fill the week. The case for adding a fourth thing anyway, and how to make it fit without wrecking the sessions that matter.
Performance
Heart Rate Zones: What They Are Actually For
Zones are a way of keeping easy runs easy. They are a poor way of measuring how hard a hard run was. Knowing which job you are asking them to do fixes most of the confusion.
Training
The Weekly Structure That Works for Most Runners
One long run, one quality session, one steadier effort, and the rest genuinely easy. A default template and the reasoning behind each slot.