Where the strength work actually goes
Most training advice tells you what to lift. The harder question, and the one that decides whether you are still lifting in six months, is where the session goes in a week that already has a sport in it.
These guides answer both, sport by sport.
Train around your sport
For people whose week already contains running, riding, racing or match play, and who keep losing the gym session to it.
Start here
Strength training for runners
What to lift, how little you need, and the argument between lifting on hard days and lifting on easy days. Includes sections on training past 40 and holding strength through a marathon block.
Plan
A two-day plan for runners
The actual sets and reps, free and ungated, plus where each of the two sessions goes in the week.
Cycling
Strength training for cyclists
Why the bike forgives gym fatigue that running would not, and what that buys you when placing leg day.
Triathlon
Strength training for triathletes
Three sports already competing for one recovery budget, and where a fourth demand fits without breaking the week.
Tennis
Strength training for tennis players
Rotational power, deceleration, and the scheduling problem created by a match whose length you cannot predict.
Hiking
Strength training for hiking
The descent is what wrecks you, not the climb. What to train for it, and why a big Saturday and a heavy Monday fight each other.
Skiing
Strength training for skiers
A twelve-week autumn build for the eccentric quad work skiing actually is, then how to manage it once ski days become the load.
Golf
Strength training for golf
Rotational power and thoracic mobility, plus why control leaks away on the back nine after a heavy gym week.
Both, seriously
A hybrid training program is a recovery problem
For people who want strength and endurance as equal goals rather than one supporting the other. What you give up, how to structure it, and when to stop being hybrid for a while.
Stay strong as you age
The recovery window lengthens and the fast-twitch fibers go first. Both change what a good program looks like.
50 and up
Building muscle after 50
What actually changes, why six-day programs fail, and the case for lifting heavier rather than lighter as you get older.
Evidence
Strength training for older adults
What the research supports, how to start safely, and what heavy means when the starting point is a chair.
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