Episode 470: Strength for Endurance | Jason Fitzgerald
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Jason Fitzgerald is a life long runner, and host of The Strength Running Podcast. In this episode, we discuss if Truett Hanes can reach the Olympic Trials Marathon Qualifying time of 2:16, the increase in strength athletes embracing running, the role of strength in running, and the rise in popularity of muscular endurance and fatigue resistance training strategies.
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| 0:00.0 | He broke the world record for pull-ups, which seems directionally different than marathon running, |
| 0:07.0 | but it was a 24-hour record. |
| 0:09.0 | Someone who didn't have this lengthy, extensive background in running, and all of a sudden, |
| 0:14.0 | they're running sub-230 marathons. I think that's incredibly inspiring. |
| 0:18.0 | You can't just work harder and expect to become an elite runner. That element |
| 0:23.8 | of genetics is going to play a role. Oh yeah, I was like, who let this guy into this Olympic |
| 0:30.2 | trials 10K? Like, he belongs at Burning Man. You get a lot of quote unquote gym bros who are like, |
| 0:37.4 | yeah, I'm going to do |
| 0:37.9 | high rocks. And then they realize that, oh, my God, my aerobic system is just not up for eight by |
| 0:43.0 | a thousand at a pretty hard intensity with all of these metabolic types of strength or other |
| 0:50.1 | types of exercise thrown in the middle as this giant circuit, I do really like more |
| 0:56.1 | muscular guys getting into the sport because it shows it's not just for us really skinny |
| 1:01.9 | dudes. It's for everyone. |
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