A famous Running professor is preaching the following two so-called myths of strength training and running. Help me out here, is he crazy or am I crazy?
MYTH: Strength Training Makes You Faster:
"Distance running is primarily limited by the delivery and use of oxygen. There is no evidence that strength training increases cardiac output, oxygen transport, or mitochondrial respiration, nor that strength training makes someone faster beyond just running more volume or intensity. Nearly all the difference between runners’ race times can be explained collectively by VO2max, speed at lactate threshold, running economy, and anaerobic capacity. If someone strength trains and then happens to run a faster race, that doesn’t support that strength training was the cause."
(Wait a minute..."Running Economy" is not enhanced by weight training or hill running? Also, I would love to hear his reasons for why most of the top runners in the world waste so much time in the weight room. Even Kenyans use light weights during the off-season!)
MYTH: Strength Training Prevents Running Injuries:
(Okay, why did I just spend 7 months training with a physical therapist who mostly had me doing strength or balance work to solve my Achilles, Plantar Fasciitis, and Shoulder Rotator Cuff injuries? We also did some static stretches, he must have been wacko, but it worked, especially the calve raises! This professor dude has actually bragged about his calves and how muscular they are and how they increase his performance! The irony is humorous.)
I suggest that the point the OP was trying to make was the last paragraph. This is applicable for fast, slow, old, or young athletes. I was a long-time coach and one the coaches in our state had an advantage because of the way he had all of his athletes do calve raises. My guess is that he emphasized the eccentric phase.
A famous Running professor is preaching the following two so-called myths of strength training and running. Help me out here, is he crazy or am I crazy?
MYTH: Strength Training Makes You Faster:
"Distance running is primarily limited by the delivery and use of oxygen. There is no evidence that strength training increases cardiac output, oxygen transport, or mitochondrial respiration, nor that strength training makes someone faster beyond just running more volume or intensity. Nearly all the difference between runners’ race times can be explained collectively by VO2max, speed at lactate threshold, running economy, and anaerobic capacity. If someone strength trains and then happens to run a faster race, that doesn’t support that strength training was the cause."
(Wait a minute..."Running Economy" is not enhanced by weight training or hill running? Also, I would love to hear his reasons for why most of the top runners in the world waste so much time in the weight room. Even Kenyans use light weights during the off-season!)
MYTH: Strength Training Prevents Running Injuries:
(Okay, why did I just spend 7 months training with a physical therapist who mostly had me doing strength or balance work to solve my Achilles, Plantar Fasciitis, and Shoulder Rotator Cuff injuries? We also did some static stretches, he must have been wacko, but it worked, especially the calve raises! This professor dude has actually bragged about his calves and how muscular they are and how they increase his performance! The irony is humorous.)
I suggest that the point the OP was trying to make was the last paragraph. This is applicable for fast, slow, old, or young athletes. I was a long-time coach and one the coaches in our state had an advantage because of the way he had all of his athletes do calve raises. My guess is that he emphasized the eccentric phase.
O.P. has no point. O.P. wanted/wants those who don't believe in weight training to debate those who believe in weight training. O.P. wanted/wants those who consider themselves weight training experts to fight amongst themselves on this thread. O.P. wanted/wants pages of participation. It's Anarchy. Classic Let'srun.
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The challenge with strength training and distance running is two-fold:
You have to be able to manage both - recover from the workouts (either) enough to do the other successfully. I think that's why most of the current 'hybrid athletes' are using TRT, at least.
If you put on weight, even muscle, it will impact your distance running. I mean, you will be stronger all around, but it's still extra poundage you have to carry with you. Ideally, you can find the balance to stay lean, while muscular. Big arms, big chest, big shoulders ain't gonna help you in a marathon. Just accept it.
I lift and run, but there are definitely some sacrifices you have to make if you want to be good at both.
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The key is to manage the stress and recovery and lift in a way that does not bulk you up. Also most good runners simply will not gain any measurable muscle mass due to genetics and training volume.
As far as lifting goes you want to limit total volume and limit time under tension. Your goal should be power, explosive strength, and strength.
The challenge with strength training and distance running is two-fold:
You have to be able to manage both - recover from the workouts (either) enough to do the other successfully. I think that's why most of the current 'hybrid athletes' are using TRT, at least.
If you put on weight, even muscle, it will impact your distance running. I mean, you will be stronger all around, but it's still extra poundage you have to carry with you. Ideally, you can find the balance to stay lean, while muscular. Big arms, big chest, big shoulders ain't gonna help you in a marathon. Just accept it.
I lift and run, but there are definitely some sacrifices you have to make if you want to be good at both.
A competitive runner doesn't need to be good at both. It doesn't take much to elicit an adaptation. That's all you need. An adaptation, no matter how small.
Fact: training to failure will make you faster. Lifting super heavy, but not to full muscular failure, improves your ability to lift heavy (through neuromuscular pathway development) but doesn't improve running (which is improved through increased muscular development).
Myth: Certain lifts/movements help improve running more than others.
Fact: Lifting has no skill transfer to other activities, only to lifting itself. Only way to improve the skill of running faster is to run fast. Lifting can only help build the muscles used for running.
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The challenge with strength training and distance running is two-fold:
You have to be able to manage both - recover from the workouts (either) enough to do the other successfully. I think that's why most of the current 'hybrid athletes' are using TRT, at least.
If you put on weight, even muscle, it will impact your distance running. I mean, you will be stronger all around, but it's still extra poundage you have to carry with you. Ideally, you can find the balance to stay lean, while muscular. Big arms, big chest, big shoulders ain't gonna help you in a marathon. Just accept it.
I lift and run, but there are definitely some sacrifices you have to make if you want to be good at both.
Hybrid athletes are all gymbros. That is why they dope.
i have no idea where you got the insane idea that people who care about running performance care about developing upper body mass. We are talking about lifting loke Rupp, Farah, Centre, and the like not Ronnie Colman…
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