Hi
I’m mostly running (6-10times/week). Competing in 10Ks and looking to attend more half marathons through time.
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I’m looking to increase my resistance training as a supplement to my endurance training. I have a protocol that i’ve made myself of simply doing body-weight back squats and legg press, plus some running-drill exercises with intention of affecting my work economy and stride. Any thoughts around this or protocol/program to recommend ?
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My general thoughts and reflections around strength or resistance training are simply put that stronger (in lack of other terminology…) muscles would be able to absorb a larger proportion of the energy-return per stride and thus less energy load on tendons and ligaments, effectively resulting in lower risk for exercise-load based injuries. Any research on this or thoughts/reflections?
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I can see that you structure workouts based on BORG (RPE standardization), whats your thoughts on translating the logic in RPE for endurance athletics. Let me try to be more specific - say I’m doing back squats or legg press - whats your general thoughts of RPE? I can e.g. see you argue RPE < 6 as “warmup” videos of RPE explained), but I guess that would be more relevant if the goal is to work at generally higher RPE’s and thus build muscle mass, which - I guess - is less relevant for my case?
Thank you for taking time to read,
Robin