What happens when you die:
They divide up your shit.
They summarize your life in 500-1000 words.
People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more.
Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work.
Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words.
You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way.
Might as well squeeze every motherfucking drop out.
Gentlemen, you’ve trained all year for this. All that time in the gym building strength and endurance for the hundreds of kid tosses into the pool or lake this weekend.
Leave it all out there and toss them high enough to make your wife nervous.
Many runners both underestimate and overestimate strength training. Here’s what I mean.
They underestimate how important it is for your health. Simply put, you’ll have a better quality of life by running AND lifting weights. In fact, I’d say not everyone should run, but 100% of people should strength train. There are no downsides.
They also underestimate its impact on running performance. Running and aerobic training are still the foundation, but heavy compound lifts (trap bar deadlifts, split squats) and plyometrics (bounding, hops) improve rate of force development and running economy. In other words, you become faster at the same VO₂max.
What runners overestimate is the time required. If you’re training like a powerlifter, sure, that is a longer gym session. But as a runner? You can complete an effective strength workout in under 20 minutes once or twice a week. Grab a pair of dumbbells and do a circuit of step-ups, single-leg deadlifts, calf raises, and squat thrusts. That’s enough to move the needle.
They also overestimate the complexity. Strength training doesn’t have to be complicated. The above exercises aren’t difficult to learn, and if you prefer, you can use machines instead. One or two hard sets per exercise, once or twice a week. Simple.
If you’re not strength training, you’re leaving both health and performance on the table.
@metal_patriot98@AndyMarcus90@ZackBornstein Take the salary and don’t take billions from foreign nationals feels like a perfectly reasonable take for the crowd that loves America first and the Constitution
@DKThomp I had a feeling Chester Arthur may be the answer. I recently watched Death by Lightning on Netflix. It was fantastic…I had no idea what a crazy background Arthur had.