Four Benefits of Strength Training For Runners
Running has always been fairly popular among recreational athletes, but for those who have decided to get a little more serious let’s briefly look at four benefits that adding strength training will have on your running performance.
Sprinting Basics
Most sports have a few things in common, one of these commonalities is that you can never be too fast. In fact being faster than your competitors correlates well with getting more scoring opportunities in games. But before going on any further let’s define what speed is, for most sports it is how fast an athlete can sprint at maximal speed.
Why You Need To Build An Aerobic Base
When it comes to conditioning for athletes, it seems that all the emphasis over the last several years has shifted toward using high intensity interval training (HIIT) to develop an athletes conditioning as a shortcut compared to long slow distance (LSD) training.
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My name is Chris Graham and I'm a sports performance coach and I currently help collegiate athletes and busy young professionals train and get in awesome shape so they can look, feel, and perform great!
