Training Tuesday: How Important is Strength Training?

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

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

4.9 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Kirk takes one side and Brakken takes the other while they debate the overall importance of Strength Training for a distance runner.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the running public with Brack and Crocker and Kirk DeWint.
0:12.4	It's Tuesday, folks, and you know what that means, Training Tuesday.
0:15.7	We are going to take every rabbit hole, follow tangents, use useless metaphors, get lost in the weeds.
0:22.4	This is Training Tuesday.
0:33.4	Very exciting news, listeners.
0:35.8	We have partnered with mud gear, famous for their socks.
0:40.1	I have owned pairs of mudgear socks since 2017 that I still use Bracken.
0:46.7	They're durable, heavy duty, great trail socks, perfect for winter running.
0:50.8	I'm pumped to be partnered with them.
0:52.3	Well, I don't want to one-up you, but I think I go back to probably 2013 or 2014.
0:56.4	Still have some of the original pairs. I like their hybrid socks, and I wear their over-the-calf
1:01.6	compression socks for at least 50% of my winter runs. And sometimes I even play basketball.
1:08.4	In fact, Kirk, when I boxed, I am one in O as an amateur boxer,
1:12.2	and I wore Mudgear compression socks in the ring
1:15.5	because I had done a track workout with Matt Novakovich and Chad Trammell
1:19.6	the day before at the dome in Anchorage, Alaska.
1:22.9	But you didn't know that tidbit.
1:24.4	Did not.
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1:40.3	forward slash TRP to get those sweet, sweet deals.
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