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If your concern is looking healthy and athletic, you need a decent amount of muscle mass and a low percentage of body fat. Running helps with none of that.

• iamacyborg 4y ago
  Doing hill strides will build some serious legs and running every day (while maintaining an appropriate diet) will be more than enough to reduce your body fat.
  • lottin 4y ago
    Reducing body fat requires careful dieting and exercise. First, you need to be in a caloric deficit, which involves eating less calories than usual. Second, when you're in a caloric deficit, you'll lose both fat and muscle. Lifting weights becomes absolutely crucial, otherwise you will lose a lot of muscle. Hill strides don't build strong legs. I did a lot of cycling in my youth, and I thought I had strong legs—since they seemed slightly larger than average—but I didn't. When I had to do something that required actual strength, such as kicking a ball, it turned out I was rubbish.
    • iamacyborg 4y ago
      Or pop some HMB or any other method of maintaining muscle mass while in a calorie deficit. It’s not rocket science and lifting weights is not the only method or even the thing that you might strictly want to do to achieve whatever your goals may be. Since when is kicking a ball a measure of leg strength? How are you even measuring something that’s so relative to the desired goal?
      • lottin 4y ago
        Maybe I'm missing something... I was specifically addressing your remark that running is an adequate form of exercise to get leaner and stronger. So those are the goals.