This is a YouTube video titled "Optimizing strength training for runners" containing a monologue or single-speaker explanation from October 7, 2023, discussing strength training techniques to improve running performance, particularly for ultra marathon training. The speaker describes using leg strength exercises as a pre-fatigue method to simulate running on tired legs.
So strength training is used a to strengthen his legs for the elevation during the week, but also kind of as a pre fatigue mechanism. So like if you can't, for instance, you're training, training to run an ultra marathon, but you don't want to ramp your mileage up too fast. So you can utilize like a leg session and then go into a shorter run to get used to running on really tired legs. It's not quite the same, but it helps. And then for some of his long runs, we would do like 30 minutes, a hundred body weight lunges, and then another 30 minutes. Like every 30 minutes we'd break and just do a hundred body weight like walking lunges.
