Do endurance athletes benefit from strength training?

💪💦 The addition of strength training can improve parameters of endurance capacity in endurance athletes.

📊 This classic study shows improvements in cycling economy in well-trained cyclists after adding 8-weeks of heavy squats to their regular endurance training.

🏋️‍♀️ Combining endurance and strength training does not seem to reduce maximal oxygen uptake when compared to endurance-only training. Interestingly, strength is reduced with concurrent training compared to strength-only training.

🏋️‍♀️ Something to keep in mind for mixed sport athletes such as most team sports and CrossFit®.

Full read of the papers:

Sunde et al., PMID: 19855311

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19855311/

Coffey et al., PMID: 27506998

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5407958/

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