“I’m more focused on weight training than running now, so I spend most of my time in the gym and run about three days a week,” Hall says. But he also noticed greater sprint speed and power from doing weighted legs work. When he started implementing cross training and strength training, Hall says he obviously witnessed the muscle mass and strength benefits. “It seems counterintuitive, but I’ve found when I take time off I usually see little to no change in an injury, but when I do the proper weight training I see significant improvement.” “Whenever people ask me what the best way to get over tendonitis and shin splints is, I always tell them weight training-it’s the best thing we can do to prevent and overcome common running injuries,” Hall says. Yet once he hung up his running shoes, Hall took up a new athletic endeavor that transformed his physique- he initially gained 20lbs-and gave his body some reprieve from the repetitive toll of running: strength training.
“I trained through tiredness rather than easing up, but you have to explore that if you’re going to run at a world-class level. “The biggest mistake I made was not listening to my body,” Hall tells Men’s Fitness. He retired in 2016 at the age of 33, citing extreme fatigue and chronic low testosterone, the New York Times reported. He was also the first American to run a half-marathon in under an hour.īut even for a marathoner of Hall’s talent, all that training took a toll. Ryan Hall holds the fastest marathon time by an American ever: a blistering 2:04:58 at the vaunted 2011 Boston Marathon, according to USA Track & Field.
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