Abstract
The aim of review is summarize available information about concurrent strength and endurance training in relation to recreational running. Four electronic databases (SPORTDiscus, MEDLINE, Web of Science, Google Scholar) were searched for publication meeting the following inclusion criteria: endurance training, strength training, concurrent strength and endurance training, recreational running, running economy.
Research in performance running indicates that strength training, when supplementing individualized endurance training, leads to improvements in running economy and distance running performance with no significant changes in maximal aerobic capacity or lactate threshold. The effects of concurrent strength and endurance training in recreational running seem equivocal.
This difference probably depends on different fitness levels of both groups and different application concurrent strength and endurance training, which results from inconsistencies in goals and different time allocations for training capacities.