IMPORTANCE OF CORE TRAINING FOR RUNNERS
When it comes to core training, it is often met with sighs and often only done because your coach is making you do it. You’d rather be out running or simply spending the time recovering. But, is it time we changed our view on core training? Should we be viewing it as an integral part of the training week? Or were we right all along and rightly dismissed it? Let's find out!
Should Distance Runners Lift Weights?
Notoriously, endurance coaches and runners alike have shied away from lifting weights. It is mainly out of fear of becoming “bulky” (a highly damaging mentality) and a decrease in mitochondrial density when undertaking weight training.
However, is this actually true? Are there benefits to lifting weights, that just running can’t provide?