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Having recieved several running books from Santa, I'm starting to work my way through them with great interest. At the moment I'm reading about strength/weight/resistance training and its benefits in improving running technique and efficiency, also helping a great deal to prevent injuries. The book also iterates how a vast number of runners simply don't regularly supplement their running with weight training...
This got me thinking, who does weight training to supplement their running training? If you don't, is there a reason why not?
Up until now I've not bothered simply thinking that running excercises my leg muscles which should suffice, any weight training would probably just fatigue my leg muscles and hinder my running. But on reading this book it's made me see it in a different light and i'll certainly be looking for more sources on information on weight training to supplement running (i'll never change my training just by reading one source of info... i'll research it thoroughly first)
This got me thinking, who does weight training to supplement their running training? If you don't, is there a reason why not?
Up until now I've not bothered simply thinking that running excercises my leg muscles which should suffice, any weight training would probably just fatigue my leg muscles and hinder my running. But on reading this book it's made me see it in a different light and i'll certainly be looking for more sources on information on weight training to supplement running (i'll never change my training just by reading one source of info... i'll research it thoroughly first)