#132 | Strength Training for Runners
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Choose Strong with Sally and Eddie McRae
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sally breaks down the importance of strength training for runners. She shares exercises, tips, reasons why and how often you should strength train. Plus, if you stick around to the end, she gives a very 'Sally-esque' encouragement to you! Thanks for listening!
Other episode highlights:
- Choose Strong community highlights
- Hips, glutes and ankles - focus
- Sally's top 5 strength exercises
- Strengthening for downhill running
- Treating your body as an engine
- The importance of bodyweight exercises
- How often should a runner strength train?
- Should runners lift heavy weights?
- Running “far” & lifting “heavy” are objective terms
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| 1:53.4 | Very glad that you are here. |
| 1:56.0 | Eddie, there is a ice storm moving across the United States. |
| 2:00.5 | We have a lot of people with down power lines, |
| 2:05.8 | down trees. A lot of ice. A lot of ice losing power. This is like the coldest that it's been for |
| 2:11.8 | them in a long time. And yet we still have people getting out and running in it. I know. I was on the too strong Strava page and I was very impressed with so many pictures |
| 2:24.5 | of people that got out for like seven, eight, nine miles in like ice snow. |
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