For the past couple of months I have been lifting and have increased my upper body strength and muscle size.
Should I be concerned that this will slow me down.
I like the look.
For the past couple of months I have been lifting and have increased my upper body strength and muscle size.
Should I be concerned that this will slow me down.
I like the look.
how much weight did you gain?
what distance do you run?
Yes it will slow you down, but its not the working out, its how you worked out. If you do high amount of reps and are trying to induce a lot of hypertrophy (muscle growth) it will slow you down. If you have been doing a lot of low weight/high reps that is perfectly fine and you should not notice a lot of slowing in your performance.
Work out with a weight you can manage 18-20+ reps at in one all out 'to failure' (can't do another rep) set. Use this weight to complete three to four sets of 10-12 reps per muscle group. You will not gain significant muscle mass unless you are cranking heavier weights, i.e., at which point you reach muscle failure in 15 reps or less. The lighter weights increase muscle tone and added strength without causing you to gain mass.
nonsensical wrote:
For the past couple of months I have been lifting and have increased my upper body strength and muscle size.
Should I be concerned that this will slow me down.
I like the look.
No concerns at all. Batista is a 1:03 half marathoner and Scotty Steiner recently ran a low 2:10 marathon in a time trial.
Big puffy guys always run long distances very well.
The bigger the better.
Duh!