Episode 108: How Does Strength Training Impact Endurance Performance?

Today is a solo podcast from Mike talking about "The effect of strength training on endurance performance determinants in middle- and long-distance endurance athletes: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analysis". While there are a lot of components to cover with this article, Mike's key takeaway is this: there are benefits of strength training to running economy and endurance performance (time trials or time to exhaustion), and there is no "magic formula" that is best. So, if you aren't doing any strength training to supplement running, you are leaving possible performance improvements on the table.

The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40153564/

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