14. Hype or Helpful: Strength Training for Runners

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/ Follow the pod on IG at liftingrunninglivingpod⁠⁠⁠ Email us at ⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠ Follow JK at ⁠⁠coachjkmcleod⁠⁠ Follow Kelly at ⁠⁠coachingklutz⁠⁠