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Anybody here do Hill Sprints? I'm starting to incorporate these more lately (as I've now found an appropriate hill). It's a great rush to know that I'm running at my absolute hardest yet not actually going very fast cause of the slope/resistance, which results in being safer for you.
I've tried to emulate these on a treadmill, but it's just not the same.
A subject near and dear to my heart, love running hills. If I'm not running hill sprints then I'm doing a long trail run in the hills. One could go far on a program based on hill sprints, push ups and pull ups.
I've done this to make things interesting, bring a kettlebell with you to the base of the hill. Do 20 kettlebell swings and then do one sprint.
Brad Hudson 101. The only issue is that he touts this as a way to prevent injury, but it didn't work out with Dathan Ritzenheim. He has been a basket case of injuries, and eventually left Hudson. I like hill running, but I do it at a fairly slow pace. I run 3- miles at 6% grade on the treadmill at 7-8 mph. Maybe eventually I'll get around to trying hill sprints. It's an interesting idea, but doesn't appear to be the cure-all tthat some suggest.
I don't do what I would consider to be hill sprints. I call them hill intervals. I have a trail that is about a quarter of a mile of a gradual hill. I do timed intervals of anywhere from 90 seconds to 3 minutes where I run as hard as I can for the entire interval. When I hit my goal time, I turn around and run easy down the hill for two minutes. As I get in better shape I try to reduce the recovery time. I'll try to do 6-8 of these hill intervals in a workout with a warm-up and cool down.
Hill sprints are good, but I get very similar results by doing HIIT (or Tabata training) on an elliptical machine, and don't have to worry about the weather outside.
There is a loose group of crazies a few blocks from my place that gets together for hill sprints every saturday at 6:30am. Hill is awesome - about 1/4 mile with an avg. 9% grade. It's good for repeats on the bike too. I go to the group run when I can, it's my 4th year going and the group has grown to be pretty huge on some days with lines of people waiting to go. Lots of fun doing it with others.
And if you like hill sprints, try tower running: Towerrunning
It'll burn you up better than hill sprints. Sweet torture.
We have 2 long staircases nearby. Very popular with boot campers, firefighters and athletes
One is about 80 steps (OK, well there are several 70-80 step staircases in the park). This one is the firefighter hang out.
The other one has about 120 steps. I like to see the people playing games with their kids as they run up the steps.
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