Danny Kennedy

So I get the fact that there might be a little bit of a hesitancy to do it.

Mm-hmm.

And I would say if you are introducing strength training as a runner, ideally probably do that not too close to an event.

If you're doing, say, like a marathon or a half marathon or a 10K or whatever, do it early on.

And just gradually build your way up the same as you would if you started your running.

When you start running, you're not just going to go out for a 20K run the first time you run.

You're going to start small and gradually build.

Strength training pre-run.

Okay.

Yeah, your strength should always be done prior to any running or conditioning stuff because that's when your central nervous system and muscles are most fresh and...

they get heavily fatigued, obviously, when you're doing strength training.

So that should always come first.

If you're doing it on the same day, I mean, in an ideal world, if you could even separate the two on the same day would be best, but I know that's not always going to be the case.

So as you said before, we don't need to be doing, you know, huge strength sessions in order to see benefit.

I think particularly for athletic stuff, like less is more a lot of the time.

So you might do two or three movements of strength before you go and do your run.

and as i said we're not necessarily trying to train to failure all the time with the strength work to complement your running so you know that muscle activation and you know your central nervous system being kind of primed now after doing those you'll probably feel actually better in your run so you know as we've said a number of times today what's optimal on paper doesn't always translate to working in your actual life so um

If possible, I would probably ideally say doing them on separate days would be the most beneficial.

But if you're not able to do that, then you can still see really good results.

And yeah, I would always be doing, if you're doing them together, always do strength work before.