With conflicting views pouring in from each side, it becomes difficult to decide whether weight training helps or not. Some runners may happily inform others about how weight training has helped them run faster, and improved their performance. On the other hand, some may claim that it has only made them heavier making running lesser efficient.
To increase your running speed with ease, it is important to add weight training in your agenda. However, it has its own pros and cons. It is important to be aware of which exercises are meant for runners and which ones you should be following, so that you do not end up hindering your performance.
Also, do not add too much of bulk to your body, but make sure that you are working on your arms as these help in making your legs go forward.
For those people who have not tried weight training earlier, they will actually be surprised at how good it would be for their running speed. The speed factor also improves due to the calories that are being burnt due to weight training.
While following a number of exercise and working out, you will definitely cut down on a lot of calories which will make your body lighter and more efficient. Moreover, it also prevents one from ending up with an injury.
Considering it negative aspects, one can argue that weight training may not be the thing for everybody, as it requires membership to a gym and other inconveniences such as taking out time to go there everyday, and spending a set amount of time working out.
On the other hand, at times working out more than one should, he or she may end up so exhausted that even moving an inch may seem like a highly difficult task. Moreover, focusing on repeating the same exercises over a number of weeks, without allowing the body sometime to relax, may again create problems. Such as not being able to run for a long time, till the body has had enough time to recover.
