# Strength Training Endurance Crossover

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**Category:** Training\
**Tags:** strength-training\
**Created:** [May 30, 2019, 11:47am UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/strength-training-endurance-crossover/16533 "2019-05-30T11:47:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![ExpertOrBust](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/expertorbust/32/18611_2.png) [@ExpertOrBust](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/ExpertOrBust)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/strength-training-endurance-crossover/16533/3 "2019-05-30T13:47:29Z")

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Welcome @chimpchops27. Come in and join the fun on the way to becoming a faster cyclist.

Strength training will make you a better athlete and better able to handle the demands of life, including cycling. It will help you improve muscle recruitment and efficiency especially if you work up to heavy efforts where you need to grind a bit to get the rep (see below).

I definitely recommend the Starting Strength approach to squats and deadlifts.

> [@Crossfit and cycling](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/crossfit-and-cycling/15479/4):
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> Instead do training specifically to get you strong like the linear progression (novice) program (NLP) from [Starting Strength](https://startingstrength.com/). (See Coach @chad’s comments about the coach behind it. [Calling All (Strength) Athletes](https://www.trainerroad.com/forumt/calling-all-strength-athletes/2083)) . This is the most basic form of increasing stress in that you just add increments of weight to the bar every workout until that stops working. Depending on your athletic response (fast vs slow responder) and previous background with strength training the linear progression will be on the order of 10-12 weeks or longer if your inherent strength talent is high. The “[novice](https://startingstrength.com/article/the_novice_effect)” designation has nothing to do with how strong you are, but rather how far along you are in the process of approaching the limit of your ability to adapt to stress.

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