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Have you ever done squats or deadlifts? For reps or volume (overall weight moved)? It gets your heart going. My best 2 mile time (14:11) came after doing a mon
by all2 8y ago
Have you ever done squats or deadlifts? For reps or volume (overall weight moved)? It gets your heart going.
My best 2 mile time (14:11) came after doing a month straight of the Stronglift 5x5 routine. I didn't run once the month before.
A good heavy lift is cardio and strength training.
- jamiecurle 8y agoI agree but I think it is worth pointing out the two activities (cardio vs lifting) use different energy pathways (aerobic vs anaerobic). You almost certainly know that, so my comment is aimed at giving other readers some deeper context. I routinely hit 180bpm deadlifting and squatting.
- all2 8y agoAh, I apologize. Good call on adding context. In light of that my above comment is not so useful.
- stormthebeach 8y agoIt's also worth pointing out that no energy pathway acts alone. You're always using all of them in some degree, but a particular activity will use one of them over the others. You will strengthen them in conjunction, though what you focus on will improve the most.
- glangdale 8y agoIt is not. At least the slow lifts are too restrictive on blood flow. Fred Hatfield did claim that Olympic lifting did interesting/good things for ejection fraction (IIRC) but these lifts have very little time under tension so are a different animal. I would suspect you were reasonably fit before, needed some more leg strength to hit your peak speed, and didn't lose too much cardio from not doing it for a month.