Strength Training

I have always focused on sharing out the ratios equally when working out in the gym but found an interesting article that I would like to go back to before I get started this week in the gym.

http://www.runningpl...h-training.html

I am particularly interested in the eight rules of strength as a starting point:

• Mechanics first - then resistance
  
• Rule of balance (some surprises here!)
  
• Goal oriented training
  
• Rule of specificity
  
• Rule of periodization
  
• Rule of rest and recovery
  
• Rule of variety
  
• Rule of consistency
  

Having never really used the gym specifically for running (only been running less than 1 year) I have a lot to learn about how to use the gym/strength training in the right way to get results for running. Any advice would be appreciated here.