I’m training for my first marathon this October and have been running the Powerbuilding 2 day for about 2 months. First off, this program is awesome and am about to restart it. My question is, do I taper the lifting a month out like my running program? If not when should I or shouldn’t I at all? If I should, how would the taper go? I plan to run the 3 day program after the marathon.
The need for a lifting modification and/or taper mostly depends on the running program. I’d expect most individuals would need less resistance training load than Powerbuilding 2 offers when prepping for a marathon and mileage gets high.
I’d probably set the PB 2 template to the side given the focus on powerlifting, single-rep efforts, and reduced exercise variety compared to one of our other templates. I like the lifting elements from the 2-Day General Strength and Conditioning or 2-Day Time Crunch programs for this application.
Both templates come with multiple programs for use after as well. Just my 0.02!
-Jordan
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Hi Jordan!
I know it all the depends on the running volume, i would be doing around 5-7 hours of running (no Zone 5 in plan), but would the new low fatigue s/c 3 day program be better ran as a 2 day split during marathon training or would the the LF approach make it usable 3 days a week? And is it okey to run as it is or is it better to reduce some volume?
All the best
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Hard to say for sure, as your current training (both running and lifting), fitness, and resources (e.g. time) would all color my answer.
The 3-day Low Fatigue GS/C program, which is part of the Low Fatigue download, would probably be viable, but I don’t know that it’s any better for this application than the 2-day program listed above. If you wanted to do more lifting, then the 3-day program would fit that bill.