It’s impossible to overstate the many benefits of strength training for your run performance. Runners who do bodyweight moves or lift weights have more power, better balance, improved efficiency, and, ...

Runners often forget about the power of the core for performance. This group of muscles—which spans from below your chest through your hips, taking up your entire torso—helps you transfer power ...

I recently wrote about how running with a can of Pringles helped me improve my form—an ingenious trick from my high school coach that taught me to keep my hands relaxed. The story got me thinking: ...

Running works your legs, so you don’t need to strengthen your lower body with weight training, right? Wrong. To zero in on all the key lower-body muscles, from the feet through the calves and shins ...

Strength training is important for everyone, but it also looks different for everyone. A program will hit every muscle in the body, but for runners, some are more important than others. A strong core, ...

June 5, 2025 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google We may earn a commission from links on this page. When I'm marathon training, my schedule revolves around logging ...