What muscles can be exercised after running?

Running can exercise our calf muscles very well and can effectively increase our leg strength. No matter what age the runner is, few people make the effort to exercise muscles other than the legs. Doing some mountain outdoor running can effectively help us greatly strengthen our leg muscles. Let's popularize in detail what muscles can be exercised after running.

1. However, you need to know first that the most basic structure of muscles is that they are made up of red muscle fibers and white muscle fibers. Red muscle fibers are mainly powered by aerobic energy and are also called thin filaments. If these muscle fibers are well developed, endurance in long-distance running will be very good, but the body will appear thinner. White muscle fibers are also called thick filaments. They mainly rely on anaerobic energy supply. If the thick filaments are well-developed, the explosive power will be great, like in the 100-meter shot put, and the body will appear stronger.

Moreover, it is generally necessary to run before strength training. If you don’t run, you can use skipping rope instead. It is best to run after 8 o'clock in the morning, which can exercise the energy supply of the heart and lungs, thicken the myocardium, and provide sufficient energy for the body.

2. Running is a whole-body exercise. In theory, it can exercise all skeletal muscles. However, in real life, jogging is an aerobic exercise. If you insist on running for a long time and your nutrition is not enough, it will consume your muscles instead.

In extreme running (sprinting), the quadriceps, biceps femoris (thigh), gastrocnemius, soleus (calf), gluteus maximus, core muscles (waist and abdomen), and back muscles are all heavily involved. Especially the back muscles. If you look at any of the world's top athletes, they all have very strong back muscles. On the contrary, the arms don't play much of a role.

Running does exercise the back, waist, and abdomen, but if you want to gain muscle through running, this is a bit wrong. And what I said before is short-distance running (less than 400 meters), not long-distance running. Long-distance running focuses more on improving cardiopulmonary capacity. If you run to exercise these parts of your body, it would be better to go directly to strength training.

In fact, running can exercise the muscles of our whole body. The most important thing is that it can effectively enhance our leg strength. When running, the swing of the arms should not be too large, which may consume our own physical strength and shorten our running time and mileage, which can effectively prevent orthopedic diseases.