Allison started training with me in August... at that time she was running a 32 minute 5K and was running 3-4 days a week. Since convincing her to try a couple of free training sessions, she got hooked and has improved her 5K time dramatically. Allison started training with me twice a week at the beginning of August and was forced to only be able to run 1-2 times a week. Within a couple weeks of her training program beginning she ran another race and had dropped her time by two minutes. At the end of two months her race time had dropped by just over 5 minutes.
What started happening with Allison was her body was better rested from not running as much and at the same time her full-body workouts were making her stronger and giving her more energy because of the extra muscle gained. Her stronger legs allow her to lessen the abuse on her joints from running by giving more muscle mass in the legs to act as shock absorbers. The full range of motion upper body and intense midsection work allow her to work more efficiently inhaling and exhaling more completely with longer respiration's. This also allows her to keep a faster pace throughout her races and give her more energy to end the race with a faster kick. Although I believe she was a bit skeptical in the beginning, Allison would be the first one to recommend "proper" strength training to any of her runner friends as well as anyone wanting to be the best they can be!!
No Gimmicks, No Fads, NO BULL!... Just good old-fashioned, hard work that gets results!!
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