Supplemental Training
The successful runner requires whole body fitness. You can use running as the specific
training for running which gives cardiovascular fitness and muscular endurance for the legs.
It is important to keep the rest of your body in the best possible condition also. Cross training
is a way of training using other types of exercise to aid in the aerobic conditioning necessary
for running. Supplemental training means adding training techniques to those that are
specific to running to develop and maintain the rest of the body and prevent injury. The
totally fit person incurs fewer injuries, performs better and more efficiently. The supplemental
techniques discussed here will be stretching, abdominal strengthening and circuit weight
training. The last two techniques use endurance methods which give muscular endurance as
well as muscular strength.
Stretching
Abdominal Strengthening
Circuit Weight Training