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.
Squat went from 395 to 475 lbs.As a result, he’s gone from 127 pounds last summer to 165 pounds today. "My favorite part of bulking are the strength gains that results from the surplus of calories and added size," Hall wrote.
Perhaps even more impressive is how that additional size has translated in the weight room. In his latest update, Hall casually shared that he recently completed a bulking phase that involved eating more than 5,000 calories per day, and the results speak for themselves in the images Hall shared of his increasingly jacked physique, taken by his brother Chad Hall.Īs Ryan now enters a cutting phase following the bulk-up, he predicts that he's put on about 10 pounds of muscle.
(Hall's wife Sara, meanwhile, continues to dominate at the elite level of running- last October, she became the first American to reach the podium at the London Marathon in 14 years.) Former Olympic runner Ryan Hall-still the fastest American of all-time in the half and full marathon-has been working hard to pack on muscle since he retired from pro competition in 2016.
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