Can resistance training help runners?
Looking out our window here at Classika, I see quite a few runners traveling the streets around Rivermont and Bedford Avenues. I'm always happy to see people taking charge of their health. But if running is all they do to improve their health, they might be unwittingly passing up the benefits of resistance training. Resistance training can offer health benefits that aerobic exercise can't (and vice versa) and it can also actually help improve running performance as well as reduce some of the overuse injuries that many runners suffer.
There's an interesting article on it here. Just FYI, we are in the process of setting up a gym-based resistance training class geared toward benefiting runners and endurance athletes. If you would be interested in a class like that, give us a call. Times and prices aren't set yet but it would likely be twice a week in the evenings, with a max size of 4. It would be led by Robyn Burgess, herself an endurance athlete.
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