But I’m also doing so much less running-wise than I ever have-like, 12 miles a week compared to 12 miles a day.” “Now I can go run and not feel fatigued and feel good. “I feel like it’s giving life to my body instead of taking it away,” he said. The new routine has also raised his energy level.
He said it’s been fun to do something he was not particularly good at in the beginning-after four years of chasing improvement in running and not seeing results, the rapid advances in weightlifting have been a morale-booster. Since then, he has been coaching his wife, Sara Hall, who ran a career best 2:30:06 at the London Marathon at the end of April, as well as focusing on parenthood with his four daughters adopted last fall from Ethiopia.Īnd Hall has taken up bodybuilding, writing his own workouts and changing up what he does every day so that his body keeps adapting. Hall, whose personal best in the marathon was 2:04:58, retired from running at age 33, because chronically low testosterone and extreme fatigue would no longer allow him to train at the level necessary to compete. Now he’s maxing out at more than 200 pounds, he said. When Hall started, he could only bench press about 100 pounds. He focuses two days each on arms, legs, and back and chest.
Most days he spends up to two hours working out. “I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to be big and strong.” “I’ve been small and weak my entire life-just, like, totally underdeveloped,” Hall said. As a result, he’s gone from 127 pounds last summer to 165 pounds today.
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