Thread: Does endurance weight lifting help?
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Old 10-29-23 | 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by wolfchild
Only endurance at performing the exercises which were used in the study was improved, no improvement in endurance on a bike was mentioned and no improvement in any other endurance activity was mentioned. The gains in endurance was limited to the exercises used in the study....Having said that, I am still a big fan of weight training but not for the purpose of improving bike endurance or any other endurance activity. I just lift weights to maintain overall fitness and strength.
This study found strength training increases lactate threshold, which corresponds to improved endurance on the bike:

"Despite no changes in treadmill VO2max or cycle peak VO2, a 33 +/- 5% increase (P less than 0.001) in cycling time to exhaustion at 75% of peak VO2 was observed following (strength) training."

Unfortunately, those studies didn't test if changing the resistance amount made a difference.
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