The Four Best Strength Training Exercises For Runners
- By Linzay Logan
- Published Oct. 27, 2011
- Updated Feb. 1, 2013 at 9:04 AM UTC
Want to become a stronger, faster, injury-proof runner? Add these four exercises to your training routine!
To become the best, most efficient runner you can be, just running isn’t going to be enough. Strength training is one of the single most important non-running aspects of training that can help you become a better runner. Add these four running specific strength training exercises to your running routine and you’ll become a stronger, faster, more complete runner for it.
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FILED UNDER: Injury Prevention / Training TAGS: core strengthening exercises / single-leg deadlifts / single-leg squats / Squats / strength training for runners / weight lifting
Linzay Logan
Linzay Logan is the copy editor for Competitor magazine and cares about punctuation probably a little too much. She particularly loves to avoid commas as well as add exclamation points whenever she can get away with it! She also loves to run marathons and half-marathons—probably a little too much. Don’t let her small size fool you; she’ll still try to outrun you anytime. Even though chances are she probably can’t.