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I'm Coach Laura and today we're going to be talking about sweet things

that you can add to your training.

These are simple things that should be easy enough to add into what you're already doing.

No one thing you add to your training is going to be a miracle that makes you an automatic better athlete.

But these little puzzle pieces will help make you stronger and in turn a better runner. First is strength training. Strength

training is one of those things we all know we should be doing, but we find

a thousand excuses not to do it.

When I ask athletes if they've been doing the strength training I often feel like a

dentist asking if you've been flossing. You know you should but somehow it just falls out of the routine.

When athletes think about strength training they imagine hours on end in the gym,

on top of everything else they're already doing and just the thought

of that feels exhausting. But it doesn't have to be hours. It doesn't have to be every day and it doesn't

even have to be at the gym.

Give yourself 15 minutes two or three times a week.

Pick a simple body weight exercise you can do at home and add them into your schedule.

Most runners are detail and dial oriented.

If you put it in your schedule,

you're more likely to actually do it.

So schedule it in. It's just 15 minutes. The timing of it is

really up to you. I prefer athletes do their strength training either after

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