Weight training is one way to develop a more powerful stride by increasing your rate of force development (RFD), also get your tendons to store and release energy more quickly. Additionally, weight training can make your muscles, tendons, bones, and ligaments stronger so they can hold up during heavy training periods and races.

This video will give you all the basic information needed to start incorporating weight training, specifically deadlifts, into your own routine.

None of the information provided in this video are my original thoughts. Everything I say is based on quality scientific research, research good enough to make weight training part of many elite running programs. (Examples: NAZ Elite, Bowerman Track Club, The "Boss Ladies", Allie Kieffer, Kim Conley, etc.) All I'm doing in this video is summarizing information in case you'd like to apply the research to your own running.

With that said, while I obviously appreciate the research on weight training for runners, I don't force all my athletes to do it. Running comes first and so if someone is already short on time, injury free and can't fit in weight training without losing sleep, then I'm better off just scheduling in some hill sprints in their training plan. While hill sprints aren't quite the same, they do help a person get similar benefits they would receive from weight training.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
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Elites crushing heavy weights: https://www.instagram.com/p/ByTX4LDhe...
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