Strength for runners · Clydebank
Run
stronger.
Get injured less.
Strength training for runners in Clydebank, from parkrun to marathon: coached lifting for the hips, glutes and calves that carry the miles, mobility that stops the niggles turning into lay-offs, and a nutrition plan for training weeks. Two sessions a week alongside your running. Every session coached by Stevie.
- Two sessions a week. Enough to get strong, not so much that it steals your legs from the long run. The plan sits around your running, not on top of it.
- Hips, glutes, calves. Single-leg squats, hinges, step-ups and calf work, coached until the technique is right. The bits that go wrong in runners are the bits we train.
- Mobility that is strength. Loaded range of motion rather than stretching for the sake of it, so the hips and ankles move under load.
- Fuel the miles. A nutrition plan with enough carbohydrate for training weeks and a protein target for recovery, written for you.
- Measured. Weighed and measured in week one and week eight, plus the number that matters to you: a parkrun time, a race, or just knees that do not complain.
Your coach
Stevie
Fulton
How it fits
Around the running, never instead of it.
Tell me your weekly miles and race dates and the strength work bends to them.
Base and build weeks
Two coached strength sessions, Sanctuary Strength or small-group PT, on your easy days.
Race fortnight
One light session the week before, nothing heavy in race week. You arrive fresh.
Between plans
Three sessions a week and a proper strength block. The best time to get strong is when the mileage is low.
Inside the gym
This is what a session looks like.
Filmed on a phone in the gym at Clydebank Business Park. Coached from the first minute, scaled to the person, nobody at the front doing the workout instead of watching yours.
Reviews
Five-star reviews from Clydebank and across Glasgow.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 on Google and 100% recommended on Facebook.
“Classes have a great atmosphere and it’s a fab workout!”
Questions
Good to know.
Will lifting make me heavier or slower?
Runners who lift twice a week get faster, not heavier. Muscle in the right places moves you forward; we are not building bodybuilders.
Which classes suit runners?
Sanctuary Strength and Sanctuary Functional. Skip Sanctuary Conditioning on the days you have a hard run; I will tell you which is which.
I am training for a marathon. Is eight weeks enough?
It is a block, not the whole plan. Most runners do a block in the base phase and another after the race. Message me with the race date and we will time it.
I keep getting injured. Can you help?
Often, yes. Most running injuries trace back to weak hips and calves and too much too soon. Strength fixes the first two; a sensible plan fixes the third.
Find us
Clydebank Business Park.
- Address
- Sanctuary Fitness
Spectrum House, 1A North Avenue
Clydebank Business Park
Clydebank G81 2DR - Sessions
- Classes and PT slots, Monday to Saturday: see the timetable
- Monday5:40pm Sanctuary Conditioning · PT 4pm, 5:10pm, 6:30pm Tuesday6am Sanctuary Conditioning · 5:40pm Sanctuary Strength · PT 7am to 10am, 4pm, 6:30pm Wednesday6am Sanctuary Strength · 5:40pm Sanctuary Functional · PT 7am to 10am, 4pm, 5:10pm, 6:30pm ThursdayPT 6am, 6:30am, 7am to 10am, 4pm to 5pm, 5:30pm, 6pm, 6:30pm Friday6am Sanctuary Functional · PT 7am to 10am Saturday9am Sanctuary Total Body · PT 7:30am to 8:30am, 10am
PT is coached small-group Personal Training, booked with me. Other times by arrangement.
- Getting here
- A short walk from Singer station. Parking at the building. what3words for the front door: ///pretty.needed.chill
- Message Stevie · I reply the same day
- sanctuary@clydebankpt.com
If something is not right. Message or email me and I reply within 48 hours. Most things are sorted in that message. If it cannot be sorted between us, what you have paid stays with you as credit and we part on good terms. The rule in full.
Book your free consult
Tell me what you want to change.
WhatsApp StevieQuickest way to book. Or fill this in and it comes straight to me.
- You message. I reply myself, once I am off the gym floor.
- Free consult. Ten minutes at the gym or on WhatsApp, 4pm or 7pm on a weekday.
- You start. First session booked, nutrition plan written in week one.