Danny Kennedy

Okay.

Like being worried about getting like big, bulky and slow from going to the gym is like worrying about becoming an F1 driver when you drive to the supermarket.

Right.

So it's like that's not going to happen, right?

Essentially, I've been trying to do that for years and I'm still not big and bulky, so I don't think you're going to accidentally stumble upon it.

But yeah, so there's the worry about being too sore.

I think this is a good point.

So when you start strength training or maybe when you start a new training block and there's new exercises and stuff, undoubtedly, you will have a little bit of muscle soreness, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

After the first, say, week, you should not actually be getting really sore after your strength training.

And if you are, there's probably you're either doing something wrong or it's something being introduced that wasn't there the week before.

So your muscles will adapt over time.

And even when you are progressing, you may still get a little bit sore when you overload.

But

But you shouldn't be super sore after every single session.

And so we obviously talked as well about training to failure as well.

And so the strength training that you're doing to supplement or to complement your running, you realistically aren't going to be training to failure.

The goal is actually to get strong.

It's not to be trying to build a heap of muscle mass.

Now, you will build a little bit of muscle tissue anyway.

But as you progress in your running, the stronger you're getting through particularly posterior chain.