Speaker 1: Welcome to Healthy Ish. Dear listeners, thanks for joining us
Speaker 1: today and hello if this is your first time tuning in, Yes,
Speaker 1: this is the daily podcast from Body and Soul with
Speaker 1: me Felicity Halley, and today we are going to learn
Speaker 1: more about building fitness endurance. Joining me is fitness coach
Speaker 1: and content creator Annabelle Ronfeldt, and she shares a few
Speaker 1: handy tips and exercises you can do in the gym
Speaker 1: which will help build your endurance. And she also shares
Speaker 1: her personal experiences because she's currently training for the Sydney Marathon.
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Speaker 1: chips for your longer workout sessions. Now she's talking about
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Speaker 1: if you only are striving for a five k run.
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Speaker 1: are you good?
Speaker 2: How are you good?
Speaker 1: Have you been for a run today?
Speaker 2: I was meant to, but I've had to push it
Speaker 2: back tomorrow just because I'm looking a little bit of
Speaker 2: motivation at the moment. But that's all right.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think that's music to all of ours. When
Speaker 1: it comes to endurance, some days you just don't feel
Speaker 1: like doing it right.
Speaker 2: No, So I did a gym session and said, but
Speaker 2: I'll get up early tomorrow and get it done.
Speaker 1: Okay, how many CA's tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Unfortunately I'm doing twenty.
Speaker 1: Four Oh wow?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, not a small and hence why I've been
Speaker 2: putting it off.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yep, Now you don't make the rest of
Speaker 1: us feel normal, but yeah, fair enough, twenty four k's.
Speaker 1: That's a lot to wrap your head around. Now, when
Speaker 1: it comes to building endurance in a sport, now it
Speaker 1: could be running or if you're into swimming or cycling,
Speaker 1: talk to us a bit about the role strength training
Speaker 1: plays in building endurance.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, I think in running, especially, a lot of
Speaker 2: people just start running and they tend to get injured.
Speaker 2: And I think that's because they neglect the strength training
Speaker 2: portion of it, which definitely still plays a huge role.
Speaker 2: And it's something yeah, people tend to overlook. I found
Speaker 2: myself it is huge in preventing injuries. I even suffered
Speaker 2: from shin slins towards the end of last year, and
Speaker 2: I later found out it was because I had a
Speaker 2: couple of muscular imbalances, which was then just affecting my
Speaker 2: joints and putting extra stress on my bones and creating
Speaker 2: a fatigue, especially when you were out there for long
Speaker 2: periods of time, say one to two hours, and the
Speaker 2: impact running has on your bones as well, especially your shins.
Speaker 2: So weight training just you know, works those finer muscles
Speaker 2: that you do use for running and helps you protect
Speaker 2: your joints like your knees, your ankles, and especially when
Speaker 2: you are running more, especially around that thirty plus k mark.
Speaker 2: It's a long time and it's a lot of impact
Speaker 2: on your joints, so it's a little tiper important to
Speaker 2: have strong muscles to be able to keep you going
Speaker 2: for that amount of distance. But then also yeah, at
Speaker 2: those injuries.
Speaker 1: Because I think it's interesting a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 1: we've got we're in like a running bonanza at the
Speaker 1: moment in Australia. I feel like everyone's running, which is
Speaker 1: so amazing and fantastic that more people are getting out there.
Speaker 1: It's a free it's free, easy to do. Just whack
Speaker 1: on your shoes and go. Not twenty four k's but yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe four. But we often don't think about the importance
Speaker 1: of strength training in the kind of mix of it all.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about beginners first, before we go into
Speaker 1: a marathon. How should we approach strength training in the
Speaker 1: gym if we're just starting out with you know, our
Speaker 1: running or swimming or cycling. What's kind of the mindset
Speaker 1: that we should take in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think with strength training in general, just basic
Speaker 2: is best. You don't need it over complicated at all,
Speaker 2: especially nowadays where you know you've got the presence of Instagram,
Speaker 2: TikTok and all these people making different content. It can
Speaker 2: be very overwhelming, especially for a beginner when you're getting
Speaker 2: so many different things essentially shut down your throat and
Speaker 2: you don't know what's real and you don't really know
Speaker 2: how to approach it. So my advice was just would
Speaker 2: just be to stick to the basic movements, just the compounds,
Speaker 2: work your low body mostly if it is running that
Speaker 2: you are training for, and add in two to three
Speaker 2: per week. So for example, with my hyperprogram that I
Speaker 2: have with move with Us when it is running as well,
Speaker 2: I have an upper, a lower, and then a full
Speaker 2: body session in there. So again you don't need to
Speaker 2: make it too complicated. Just pick three to five movements
Speaker 2: that you're going to focus on, and then a couple
Speaker 2: accessories just to work those finer movements.
Speaker 1: And how long should we spend in there? What sort
Speaker 1: of timeframe?
Speaker 2: I hate spending hours, so I always try to do
Speaker 2: fifty to sixty minutes, like over an hour if yeah,
Speaker 2: not necessary, if you want to see.
Speaker 1: Resiz, he's got an hour anyway too, exactly over an hour.
Speaker 1: What about you? You know, when you're going for say
Speaker 1: a half marathon or a marathon or a really long
Speaker 1: endurance event, what how do we how do you well,
Speaker 1: how do you I suppose? And how should we approach
Speaker 1: strength training in the gym?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So when I went through my big eighteen week
Speaker 2: training block when I was training for my previous marathon,
Speaker 2: the first eight weeks was kind of about building that
Speaker 2: muscular endurance, building that strength. And then the second half,
Speaker 2: when the k's really started to increase, and you know,
Speaker 2: I'm running fifty k weeks at a time, running a
Speaker 2: half marathon every single weekend, it's a lot of extra
Speaker 2: strain on your legs. So in the second eight weeks,
Speaker 2: the strength training mainly became maintenance, just kind of maintaining
Speaker 2: strength because obviously when you are running that much. It's
Speaker 2: it's quite hard to build muscle during that period. So yeah,
Speaker 2: towards the end of it, it was just about maintaining
Speaker 2: and because of the extra load on the legs, it
Speaker 2: was kind of just one low body and then an
Speaker 2: upper body to Jan's substitute. In those days, if.
Speaker 1: We're a bit of a mid range run as say
Speaker 1: you know a ten or fourteen k, are there any
Speaker 1: specific strength training moves we should be doing. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: with running, I found it's really important to have a
Speaker 1: strong posterior chain. So obviously when you are going for speed, especially,
Speaker 1: your power comes from your glutes and your hamstrings and
Speaker 1: your calves, so working movements like your hip thrust, your
Speaker 1: rdls calf phrases also super important, as calves tend to
Speaker 1: get a bit neglected. And then also when if you
Speaker 1: are deciding to run longer distances, you need that muscular
Speaker 1: in durrant in your cords as well, so.
Speaker 2: Again it doesn't need to be over complicated. Just your squats,
Speaker 2: and then also your single leg work because at the
Speaker 2: end of the day running you're on one leg at
Speaker 2: a time, so it is super important to kind of
Speaker 2: balance out any imbalances you have between your legs.
Speaker 1: Now you are training for the City Marathon. I presume
Speaker 1: that that's the twenty four ks that you're about to
Speaker 1: attack tomorrow. Yeah, what does your training look like for
Speaker 1: this event?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this training block has been quite different just
Speaker 2: because I've got a lot of events leading up to it,
Speaker 2: so it's kind of a bit broken. So I'm also
Speaker 2: training for high Rocks as well at the moment, which
Speaker 2: is spot on your Instagram. Yeah, so my training at
Speaker 2: the moment, my interval session a week is kind of
Speaker 2: based around the high Rocks, but it's still going to
Speaker 2: help me improve my speed for the marathon. So that's
Speaker 2: about eight to ten k that session. And then obviously
Speaker 2: I've got my long run, which just increases slowly each week.
Speaker 2: That one in particular, I run for time, so I
Speaker 2: do that just so I'm not focused on my pace,
Speaker 2: and so I'm interesting and try and keep my heart
Speaker 2: rate down because I find if I just run for distance,
Speaker 2: I'll tend to speed up just so I can get
Speaker 2: it done. That's really interesting because a lot of people
Speaker 2: run for distance, so you kind of flip it. I
Speaker 2: suppose it comes down to what sort of person you
Speaker 2: are and how makes you're suited to time or distance. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just think if it's I'm out there anyway, so
Speaker 2: I might as well just go slow.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, all the best with the City Marathon, and
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on Healthy Ish. Yes, thank you,
Speaker 1: and yes I know we focused on running that. Hey,
Speaker 1: come summer, we'll give you an episode on building swimming endurance.
Speaker 1: And it seems everyone out there running right now, so
Speaker 1: we had to talk about running anyway. I hope you
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