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#54: Ryan Hall on Strength Training for Runners

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You Can't Stay at 137, but You Have to Let Go of Your Fitness

I think what's really important is to know where you'd sit naturally. So if I'm racing the marathon at 137, I'm quite a bit under my normal body weight. And so I had to have these huge fluctuations where I'd get down to 137. That's what I raised ideally at. And then in the off season, go up to like 150 and then gradually, and I'd feel so much better if I did it. But not everyone's like that. Like my wife, Sarah is running professionally. Her body weight only fluctuates, you know, maybe five pounds throughout the year, not very much at all. She would naturally sit maybe just a little bit higher than

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