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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Does that come directly from the Society for Statistics Pulled Directly From Our Collective Ass? The SSPDFOCA is doing wonderful work these days... 
No, there's a lot to be said for that idea, statistics be damned. When I first got to college, I'd never lifted with my legs before. I just assumed that my legs would "take care of themselves" based on all the milage I was putting on them (around 70-80 a week at the time). One of the things I learned was that lifting weights, cross training, etc. strengthened other muscles and muscle groups to help keep things alligned for that one step out of 100,000 that was a little funny off the curb. Or to help prevent overuse injuries (which isn't something you really need to be concerned with at this stage, RB, but probably will need to be thinking about before your first half marathon). All the systems work symulateously when you're running (arms, legs, back, C/V) so when you think about it, it's logical that all of them will need to be "tuned up" for peak performance. |
No, I think it's a pretty valid stat. I don't know anyone who runs more than a few kilometres at a time who hasn't had some form of injury - and so many of those injuries could be prevented, IMO, with a little gym work.
Everyone is always so keen to do rehab work after they get hurt - if they did that same or similar work in advance they might never get hurt to begin with.