Strength & Conditioning is often one of those things as runners that gets put into the bottom of the pile and is often forgotten about at the end of the week. However building some S&C into your weekly routine could have numerous benefits that you haven’t realised.

Being stronger will make you a more robust runner this will translate into running faster and running longer but most importantly helping you to stay injury free.

The conditioning part can be split out into flexibility & mobility, so having a more flexible body and more mobile joints can help to get faster, run for longer, recover faster from hard training sessions and lower your injury risk.  All things that are important to us as runners!  

A S&C plan doesn’t have to be lifting heavy weights in the gym it can be as easy as doing some bodyweight exercises at home or including some resistance band drills. Just make sure it is specific for what you need for your running, if you feel stiff all the time then focus a bit more on some conditioning work first rather than strength, if you feel that your ankles or glutes are weak then focus on adding in some strength for these, if you are missing a spring in your running then some plyometrics will help for this.

Sounds like a really easy way to improve your performance?  It is!

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