BENEFITS OF HILL WORKOUTS 🏔

Podcast episode #145 🎙

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Hill workouts will help build you into the runner you want to be! Everyone wants great form, strength, and confidence, so add some hill workouts to your training routine for big improvements:

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✅ Improves form: It’s difficult to run uphill with bad form! Running hills naturally gets you up on your forefeet, forces you to lean forward, and requires you to use your arms efficiently and effectively. They also force you to shorten your stride and increase your cadence, which is a big part of ideal running form. Running hills, and therefore using proper form, will improve your neuromuscular connections so your body remembers what good form is and feels like!

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✅ Increases your power: When you run hills, you’re fighting gravity and the grade of the hill which builds up strength

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✅ Easier on your body with similar benefits of speedwork: Hill repeats are easier on your body than speedwork on flat terrain because you aren’t able to reach top speeds going uphill, and faster running is hard on your body. But you are able to practice the same fundamentals of speedwork during hill workouts (i.e. hill workouts and speedwork require similar efforts). This is easier on your joints, connective tissue, and muscles because you’re going slower!

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✅ Allows you to tackle any racecourse with confidence: You often hear people describe certain runners as “strength” runners, which basically just means they are able to run well on any terrain and hills don’t beat them up as much as the more “metronome” type runners who do really well on flat courses. Become a STRENGTH runner by adding hills into your runs! You’ll also become better at pacing any course with hill training under your belt

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HOW TO ADD HILLS TO YOUR TRAINING:

✅ Add them into your easy, long, and tempo runs

-Rolling terrain, bridges, etc.

-Focus on keeping an even effort rather than even pace

✅ Do hill-specific workouts in addition to adding them into your other runs

-30 seconds-5 min hill repeats

-Can use steep hills

-Can use stairs

-Can use treadmill 6% grade or higher

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