How To Run: Never Lift To Failure

Cross-country lifting differs another type of sports lifting in one critical aspect. We never want to lift a muscular failure. As you complete your sets of repetitions first, second, and third set, make sure that you always maintain a strength reserve at the end of that third set. You are never lifting to a point of complete muscular failure that lifting the muscular failure is one of the critical building blocks to building bulk whereas cross-country athletes do not want to build bulk that has to be carried throughout a 5000-meter race. We would like to build strength, flexibility and endurance. Those are the opposites of lifting for bulk. This form of lifting will require the athlete to lift less weight.

However, our repetitions will remain in a fairly high level. The athlete must be sure to complete all repetitions for each set and maintain that critical strength reserve at the end of the final set.


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