Training Tuesday #11: Strength Training & Periodization for Runners

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

Health & Fitness, Sports, Fitness, Sports:running, Running

4.9 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

As distance runners, we don't always have a sense of comfort with the weight room. However, the weight room can be the difference between a successful season and one that ends in injury and/or disappointment. Today we explore the concept of Strength Training for Runners: What lifts are best for endurance athletes What rep ranges you should be doing How to periodize your lifting to complement your racing Specific plans for what to do from this day forward to maximize your 2020 race season How to do all this while trapped in your house (if need be)

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0:00.0	You're listening to the running public.
0:13.2	From marathoners to mud runners, we all have the same goal.
0:16.5	Get to the finish line faster.
0:18.3	That's right.
0:19.0	This podcast is for you guys, the running public.
0:28.9	This is the running public's Training Tuesday. Training Tuesday is where we talk about training
0:34.9	only. One topic, we dive deep we explore completely it's training
0:39.4	it's tuesday training tuesday tuesday tuesday guess what uh guess what today is for me we're
0:47.0	recording on a monday are you long running what do you're just run i'm just running i took my week
0:53.3	rebreast last week and i get to go from my first run in eight days.
0:58.0	Yeah, you started out with a longer one or are you easing in?
1:01.0	I'm going to ease it.
1:02.0	I'm only going to go six miles.
1:03.0	I'm only going to run four days a week these first couple weeks back.
1:07.0	We actually got like almost four inches of snow yesterday.
1:10.0	So I have some fresh pow-pow to run.
1:11.9	We did not.
1:12.5	We've had rain.
1:14.2	Yeah.
1:15.0	I hit a mileage PR since, well, I ran more than twice for the first week since surgery.
1:23.1	Actually, since I didn't run for three and a half weeks prior to surgery.
1:26.5	So this was like 11 weeks before I ran two days, three days in a week.
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