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Or weightlifting, squatting and deadlifting heavy on a regular basis will give you substantially stronger legs than any runner.
by hyperchase 11y ago
Or weightlifting, squatting and deadlifting heavy on a regular basis will give you substantially stronger legs than any runner.
- DevX101 11y agoI'm not entirely convinced 'strong legs' are the causative factor in healthier brains. It is possible the researchers measured an artifact of people that do running cardio.
- nostrebored 11y agoParticularly damning is that the research participants were all female. Anyone who's set foot in a gym knows that women do cardio disproportionately, and that the cardio they do increases thigh musculature...
- kaitai 11y agoI have to disagree. Sure women do more cardio, but the cardio increasing thigh musculature? Not a chance. Squatting increases thigh musculature. Doing the elliptical for an hour a day does not. Running slowly or at a medium speed does not. Nor do either lead to any gain in strength anywhere.
- nostrebored 11y agoHave you seen the thighs and calves of people who bike? Of course lifting will cause more hypertrophy, but arguing that cardio doesn't lead to some gains in musculature is just wrong.
- foldr 11y agoHuh? Running certainly increases the strength of your leg muscles. The only possible exception to this would be if you were jogging very very slowly. But if you go from not running at all to running faster than, say, 6mph, your legs will certainly get stronger.
- codingdave 11y agoThat depends completely on how you define "strong". I think legs that can carry a 50 pound pack to the top of a mountain are "stronger" than a guy who can lift twice as much as me, but can't even run a 5K.
- kyllo 11y agoThat's endurance, which is objectively different from strength.
- codingdave 11y agoObjectively? Because last I checked, the english language was flexible, with multiple definitions for most words. I looked a few up for "strength". I did not find any dictionary that solely defined it as the ability to move heavy objects.
- kyllo 11y agoWords have consensus meanings, and when you try to redefine them unilaterally you make it harder to communicate. Strength in this context is defined as the ability to exert physical force (as in Newton's Second Law, force = mass x acceleration). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_strength https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_strength
- uououuttt 11y agoThe word isn't being redefined. Endurance is the ability to continue exerting physical force over a long duration.
- kyllo 11y agoDo you disagree that it's useful to distinguish between strength and endurance? codingdave asserted, "I think legs that can carry a 50 pound pack to the top of a mountain are "stronger" than a guy who can lift twice as much as me, but can't even run a 5K." The former is an example of great endurance (without necessarily having great strength), and the latter is an example of great strength without endurance. You can have one without the other, so they're different, and it's plainly incorrect to say that a person with high endurance/low strength is "stronger" than a person with high strength/low endurance.
- uououuttt 11y agoAny runner? Sprinting is as good as anything for developing explosive leg strength. Of course, the best sprinters work lifting into their training as well.
- jperras 11y ago> Sprinting is as good as anything for developing explosive leg strength. Considering that "leg strength" is conventionally measured via seated leg press for a maximal, single repetition, I would be extremely surprised if an Olympic sprinter could achieve the same sort of leg strength that an Olympic weightlifter (of similar weight) could attain.
- uououuttt 11y agoIf you define leg strength specifically as "seated leg press for a maximal, single repetition" then sure, the Olympic weight lifter will win.