Workouts and Stretching

Welcome to the strength training portion of the membership site!

Here is where you are going to find all your cross training, strength training, and stretching videos! These videos are posted below under different titles. In your own personal, training plan, I have certain workouts designated for certain days and posted below are all of the workouts you will use this training cycle! Feel free to have fun and mix them up!

Before you dive into your workouts, let’s talk about WHY strength training is important! I always want you to know what the purpose to each workout is – that way you are more motivated to do the specific workout and enjoy it!

So, let’s talk about strength training and why it is so important…

  1. Strength training helps us stay strong and decreases our changes of injury. (By 90% according to Runner’s Connect.)
  2. Strength training makes us more efficient runners, faster and healthier!
  3. Strength training is important, because it keeps our bodies strong and works out different muscle areas than or normal runs do. If we have strong hips, glutes, and legs, we are more stable on the ground, less prone to injury, faster, and have better endurance.

WHY?

Well, one of the biggest reasons I strength train is for injury prevention and maintaining/ building muscle. Runners are definitely strong, (can I get an amen?!) but sometimes we, as runners, can be, what people like to say as, “skinny fat.” We run, but we don’t really have muscle because we run it all off. (Womp, womp.) One way to combat this, is adding strength training into our routines to help us keep, maintain, and build the muscle we have!

To be perfectly candid with you guys, I’ve gone through many different phases of my running career and I’ve seen the difference when I am purposely strength training and not. I’ve always noticed that when I do some type of strength training and focus on strong arms, legs, abs, glutes, etc. I am a lot more tone, a lot stronger, and less injured than when I leave strength training out.

Yes, strength training takes a bit more time, effort, and consistency, but in the end, it is worth it if it keeps us running longer, healthier, and stronger, right?

 

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Core Workout

 

Hip Strengthening Routine

 

Post Run Stretching Video

 

Dynamic Running Warm-Up

 

Plyometic Leg Workout for Runners 

 

 

Training Tips

Proper Running Form

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