Posterior Chain Program
When going “all-in” on running, there comes a time for most where either you have to
Burn the boats on your old, aesthetics based, gym routine. Say goodbye, you’re a runner now.
and/or
Find a new cross-training routine.
What you’ll come to find, through trials and tribulations of fighting off the injury bug—is that strength and alignment of your posterior chain is paramount. Strength throughout your posterior chain often gets lost, only appearing when bad things happen, but these muscles are key drivers in propelling the body forward.
Strengthening your chain (read: entire body sans upper body) can also help yourself *mitigate* damage from running. When your chain is well-conditioned, you can endure running stresses for longer periods without fatiguing.
Think: your body is able to hold off the impact that running induces on you even longer. If you can do this, then you can more-easily improve your running economy (run more). Which in the end, is what we’re after.
While I have published essential cross-training based exercises in the past, I have not fully shown how a proper cross-training schedule fits in your running week…