@samsays_ptStrength for runners 🏃🏼♀️
(FYI if you run at any level, you’re a runner 🙂)
Running is a single leg movement happening over and over and over again so it seems obvious to train unilateral movements right?
But how many of you are actually doing it?
Hands up if you find one side stronger than the other? 🙋🏼♀️
(Very unlikely you won’t find this is the case)
So the longer you leave your single sided work untouched the longer that side will stay like that, the longer your stronger side will continue to put in the work and the more likely it is you’ll find that niggles start to crop up.
This still applies to anyone who simply wants to get stronger too.
One of the things I’ve loved about training for performance and trying new things is that I’m being forced to do this stuff. And because of that, I’ve genuinely never felt stronger.
So here’s a few exercises you can work on that will help improve your unilateral strength 💪🏻
Single leg RDL - this helps to eliminate strength imbalances on the left and right sides of the body as well as improving the lower-body stability, helping to protect your knees from injury.
Single-leg Glute bridge - again, another staple for runners. It’s fairly likely a lot of you are sitting more than you’re used to (cheers lockdown) and so the glutes can, if we’re not careful, become weaker than we’d like.
Weak glutes aren’t ideal in any case but for running, if our glutes are weak a lot of other muscles will get involved to compensate - causing annoying niggles in our hip flexors and sometimes the front of the knee.
Now do you see why this shit is important? 😏
Side Step-ups - this allows us to work the glutes from a different angle which is ideal. Stepping from the side allows us to target the inner thigh (adductors) and again, helping us reduce those imbalances across our lower bodies.
Side note: aim for mid-shin height for your step (no higher than the knee).
So, whether you’re a runner or not. If you want to get stronger, you’re only as strong as your weakest link right?
Get it done ✅
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