You will find people who quote stats that it can't help you and if you say it did they say you are nuts. You will never get a number cruncher to believe anything they can't verify with a calculator.
I can say from personal experience it was either the biggest coinkydink or it worked for me. Tried for nearly a decade to break an hour for the annual club 40K with no success. Hung out with a track guy who invited me to do a 10 week weight training course that winter. Became freakishly strong in the core, glutes, hammys from where I had been. I was able to turn 2 extra cogs at maximum effort during my training that spring and went 58:10 for the spring 40K.
The no weight training group will say it was something else, but I know the changes my body went through and to go from 1:01ish to 58ish.....I know what happened.
Try it, what's the worst thing that can happen?
I can say from personal experience it was either the biggest coinkydink or it worked for me. Tried for nearly a decade to break an hour for the annual club 40K with no success. Hung out with a track guy who invited me to do a 10 week weight training course that winter. Became freakishly strong in the core, glutes, hammys from where I had been. I was able to turn 2 extra cogs at maximum effort during my training that spring and went 58:10 for the spring 40K.
The no weight training group will say it was something else, but I know the changes my body went through and to go from 1:01ish to 58ish.....I know what happened.
Try it, what's the worst thing that can happen?