It’s not uncommon for folks who are weight training to suddenly get the urge to get into endurance activities. More specifically they decide that they either want to ride a century bike event (100 miles), run a marathon (26.2 miles) or do one of those Tough Mudder events. This raises the question of how best to combine weight and endurance training for those types of events.
Generally the explicit goal here is to be able to complete the event but not sacrifice too many of the hard earned gains from the weight room. And that will be my primary focus in terms of the recommendations I’ll make. That is, these are folks who primarily weight train and just have some desire to do one of these events.
I won’t explicitly be talking about the role of weight training for high-performance endurance athletes although much of the information will more or less apply to them.… Keep Reading