Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?
by pdiddy on Friday April 10, 2015 @04:41PM
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>Would you say strength in general would be a better (more healthy in the long term) goal than just endurance/condition?
I would definitely say this when speaking in general terms. Strength training normally focuses on full-body exercises, but endurance training (think cross-country running or cycling--not sprinting) does not. I was just reading an article talking about the importance of strength training for runners which emphasized that most injuries come from muscle imbalances.
Personally, I do both. My goal is to lift three times a week and then do endurance the other days. If I had to choose I would stick with lifting for health reasons.
It also depends what your goals are. Once you get to a certain point, you can't do endurance exercise and expect to hypertrophy.
I would definitely say this when speaking in general terms. Strength training normally focuses on full-body exercises, but endurance training (think cross-country running or cycling--not sprinting) does not. I was just reading an article talking about the importance of strength training for runners which emphasized that most injuries come from muscle imbalances.
Personally, I do both. My goal is to lift three times a week and then do endurance the other days. If I had to choose I would stick with lifting for health reasons.
It also depends what your goals are. Once you get to a certain point, you can't do endurance exercise and expect to hypertrophy.