Brothers, I'm hurt and can't run. Can't even do any meaningful cross training. Only real option I'm seeing is hitting that steel in the gym baby! Curious if anyone here's used their time off running to go from Ryan Hall (2010) to Ryan Hall (2020+)? Also curious if a skinny distance dude can realistically put on any real muscle mass in the ~2-3 months I'll be out and, if so, what the return to running will be like.
Yes. I had a very very bad knee injury, pretty much though I was done. So I put all my efforts into lifting. Normally I was around 150-155, racing weight was in the 140s, but I was able to get up to the upper 160's with no running and all lifting.
I was pretty darned big, especially for my frame. Eventually I was able to get back to running and I have finally dropped all that extra weight.
Brothers, I'm hurt and can't run. Can't even do any meaningful cross training. Only real option I'm seeing is hitting that steel in the gym baby! Curious if anyone here's used their time off running to go from Ryan Hall (2010) to Ryan Hall (2020+)? Also curious if a skinny distance dude can realistically put on any real muscle mass in the ~2-3 months I'll be out and, if so, what the return to running will be like.
You can’t put on much muscle in 2-3 months, skinny or otherwise, but you can exhaust most of your linear progression potential and thereby gain a lot of strength in that timeframe.
The near best case — not the common case — muscle gain is for a noob who can gain ~20 pounds of muscle in the first year, which averages to around 3-5 pounds in 2-3 months, so maybe 4-7 lbs in the first 2-3 months as growth is faster in the first few months compared to the next few.
I did that one summer. I had a stress fracture so I just lifted and put on a good 20 pounds of pure muscle and my body type is to be cut so I looked like a Zeus statue. The girl I was with was very happy that summer.
Yes. I had a very very bad knee injury, pretty much though I was done. So I put all my efforts into lifting. Normally I was around 150-155, racing weight was in the 140s, but I was able to get up to the upper 160's with no running and all lifting.
I was pretty darned big, especially for my frame. Eventually I was able to get back to running and I have finally dropped all that extra weight.
I'm already up on race weight by ~10 pounds from doing basic lifts I know (curls, bench, tricep extensions) and bodyweight stuff. Haven't been consistent since I stopped running but honestly curious how this could turn out. Ay further suggestions on exercises? Ideally some that could be functional for eventual return to running but would also be funny to just try to pack on size as much as I can.
Brothers, I'm hurt and can't run. Can't even do any meaningful cross training. Only real option I'm seeing is hitting that steel in the gym baby! Curious if anyone here's used their time off running to go from Ryan Hall (2010) to Ryan Hall (2020+)? Also curious if a skinny distance dude can realistically put on any real muscle mass in the ~2-3 months I'll be out and, if so, what the return to running will be like.
TRT.
Otherwise most distance runners do not have the genetics to get 'jacked'
Brothers, I'm hurt and can't run. Can't even do any meaningful cross training. Only real option I'm seeing is hitting that steel in the gym baby! Curious if anyone here's used their time off running to go from Ryan Hall (2010) to Ryan Hall (2020+)? Also curious if a skinny distance dude can realistically put on any real muscle mass in the ~2-3 months I'll be out and, if so, what the return to running will be like.
Mate, you've been taking the wrong kind of PEDs to get jacked.
Brothers, I'm hurt and can't run. Can't even do any meaningful cross training. Only real option I'm seeing is hitting that steel in the gym baby! Curious if anyone here's used their time off running to go from Ryan Hall (2010) to Ryan Hall (2020+)? Also curious if a skinny distance dude can realistically put on any real muscle mass in the ~2-3 months I'll be out and, if so, what the return to running will be like.
Mate, you've been taking the wrong kind of PEDs to get jacked.
Lol didn't even know he'd been popped until after I made the name. Just tried to come up with a good running/bodybuilding pun name. Guess it worked better than expected.
Yes, I had shin splits and was out for a few weeks. In that time I put on 45 lbs of pure contractile tissue, full natty. Some will say im a hyperresponder, but really they just dont train hard enough.
I found lifting to be SO easy compared to running. I would lift 4 days a week. Split into days of
Chest and back
Shoulders and biceps
Body weight (pull ups, push ups, dips, body weight squats, maybe some med ball stuff too)
Leg Day (I always did some more upper stuff on leg day too because everybody wants to skip leg day.)
Compared to running the gains came FAST. The great thing about starting off as a skinny ol distance runner is that MOST people that are going to the gym are fat, so no matter how much they lift, you cant see the results. By starting off skinny you see it come on quick.