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.
Topic
Strength training
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.
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.
Challenges
How Fit Are You Really?
A short set of tests covering the qualities endurance training tends to skip. You can do all of them in one session, and the results are usually informative.
Challenges
Can a Runner Become a Hybrid Athlete?
Runners start with the hardest part already built. What transfers, what does not, and a realistic look at the first eight weeks of training for both.