It’s about time we touched on the topic of strength training for runners, so here we go! We explore arguments against strength training, deep dive into a study, and our usual updates and tangents.

Topics:

00:00:24 Kelly’s updates: training & Garmin’s lactate threshold test

00:22:17 Kelly’s sad update

00:30:47 Books update

00:32:30 JK’s training update

00:37:30 Sticking to a program as it’s designed

01:01:19 Strength training for runners: arguments against, road vs trail runners

01:15:01 Deep dive into study about strength vs endurance vs concurrent training

01:55:37 Outro

Enjoy!

Links:

Road vs trail runners study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36515604/

Koop’s thoughts on the above study: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/differences-between-elite-road-and-trail-runners/id1489494447?i=1000596674543

Study we dove into: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518107/

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