Does Running Build Cycling Fitness? (Ask a Cycling Coach 160&189)

Learn how running helps your cycling fitness, how to add running to your workout and more in this Quick Clip from episodes 160 and 189 of the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast!

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[aethylwulfeiii]

I love how all their podcast preach polarized training yet all their training plans are sweet spot style.

[waynejones]

Being a good cyclist and taking up running gives a situation where metabolic fitness far exceeds structural fitness and hence gives rise to injury.

[TenSapphires]

I do it other way around. I keep my fitness in summer months with cycling, going into running at fall. Slow and steady at September, ramping up for PBs in October. So September is cool off month, kids to school and other stuff, no risks, no injuries...

[OUTDOORS]

As a runner who got into cycling, the injury scenario goes both ways. I ended up with a bad case of tendonitis after a 5hr ride on the second week of cycling and had to stop riding for 8 weeks to heal. However I could still run just fine. Running and cycling are two different sports almost entirely. Yes some fitness will carryover, but for me the fitness isn’t comparable. My max heart rate is 15+bpm higher while running. I cant even get close to my max hr cycling. Threshold heart rate is also 15 bpm different. So theres really no way to compare the two. You really have to treat each as a completely new sport if you go from one to the other. Just an fyi for anyone who is a runner getting into cycling. Start like a beginner or you will get injured 🙂

[juliusmotocikli]

I am few weeks in on polarized training plan with Stryd runing power meter. I must say it is great program. I know it is not build for runners, but it looks almost the same principle. Later I will test sweet spot low volume.

[SenorSiesta]

Before watching answer: absolutely yes.

[caseyoneill]

I'm a runner and only ride a little, but sweet spot is a bit below threshold (max 1hr effort) right? Then if so, sweet spot in running is a strong aerobic effort closer to half marathon or marathon pace rather than threshold (10k-half pace), which isn't done as commonly as threshold and vo2max workouts. For example that effort range is totally absent in Jack Daniels' training programs and he only recently started adding in some marathon pace running in the shorter distance training plans. Theres definitely value in workouts around that effort, like 40 min tempo, especially for marathon training. But it can't be done nearly as much as it can in cycling because of the impact forces like you all mentioned, easy base miles and workouts at threshold and above give more stimulus for the same injury risk

[CamsJungleAquaria]

Forgot to mention the benefit of adding higher impact activities for bone density

[Starclimber]

Chad would be hard-pressed to match or exceed my IPA fitness, though I've long appreciated his avowed love for and snobbery about the double and treble versions of the amber nectars. Let's not venture into my fitness for other pursuits for the time being.

[ssmithmdphd]

Nate I am not sure you understand training for endurance sports outside of what you guys do on TR. First runners in general cannot do the volume of rowers or bikers. It is not an intensity thing, it is a volume thing. If you are doing a Veronique Bilat style training system (a highly polarized system), how much high intensity you do has nothing to do with injury prevention. I am not sure what you are implying

[derekjolly]

Three guys nearly constantly staring at laptops. This would appear better with them just sitting there talking without the computer screens.

[robertsonfamilyfarm]

Does running help cyclist??? Ask Ned Overend , sorry I’m old school mtb guy / contractor and, I don’t run fast but, I believe it helps your overall healthy and keeps you from going to the chiropractor, seriously