This results in more muscular
endurance during your lifts.
Not exact matches
In case you didn't notice, this advice contradicts the typical
endurance athlete strength - training advice to simply devote the off - season to strength training, and then completely back off the heavy
lifting and do basic core, body weight and stability exercises
during the entire race season.
During the course of any kind of strenuous activity — whether more in the vein of
endurance / cardio or in high intensity weight
lifting — the body burns through its glycogen stores.
This results in increased strength and
endurance during intense exercise, meaning that you can
lift heavier weights, longer, and train more often.
And the important take - away from this is that an
endurance athlete with low creatine stores (e.g. many vegan or vegetarian
endurance athletes) or an
endurance athlete who has performed zero training of their phosphagenic energy system is setting themselves up to have less «kick», lower force production, and reduced ability to surge
during a race when it really matters — not just when they're
lifting weights at the gym.
I understand that
lifting weights with higher reps and lower weight can increase heart rate which would put you in an anaerobic state, so this would not be good to do
during the
endurance building phase.