Transcript Muscular Training for Marathon and Injury Prevention

Muscular Training for Marathon
and Injury Prevention
Purpose of Muscular Training
• Strength and Conditioning
-Enhance sports performance
-Reduce the chance of injury
What should we target on…
• Lower body muscles
• Core muscles
• How about upper body?
Why should we do muscular training for
marathon?
• Reduce the risk of injury
• improve muscle strength/ endurance
• Improve muscle balance
• Increase flexibility
Fear of bulking up?
Injury Prevention
• Do not overtrain, get enough rest
• Strength training for improving
-Weak muscles and Muscle imbalance
• Reduce muscle stiffness
• Must do warm-up and cool-down
-dynamic stretching, static stretching, foam rolling
The best way to reduce risk of injury is to strengthen your muscles!