Strength training for endurance runners: improving performance and reducing injury risk

This lecture covers how strength training exercise can be used to enhance performance and lower the risk of overuse injury in endurance runners. The session explores the physiological basis for endurance running performance and how resistance training and plyometrics can be used to enhance running economy and anaerobic qualities to improve performance. The lecture also explains the factors that might predispose a runner to an overuse injury and describes training approaches to improving the structural integrity of tissues that might be vulnerable to injury.