Posts Tagged ‘hill training’
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Filed under: Program Design, Running, coaching
In Defense of the Hill Repeat
by Carson Boddicker on Sep 15th, 2009
While much can be made about the specificity of hill running to the predominantly track athlete, an equally substantial argument can be made in favor of the hill repetition session in a cross country or road racing athlete. As many of these courses contain significant grades, it is, indeed, quite specific to train the body to propel itself at angles associated with hill running. This is an application of the SAID Principle, plain and simple....Read More » Tags
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Finding the Right Hill
by Carson Boddicker on Sep 14th, 2009
I've picked up some good feedback from my post on Thursday about hill training, so I thought it would be wise to clarify exactly what grade of 4% really looks like. To determine the slope of the hill requires a little bit of algebra and the knowledge of the elevation of your start and end points plus the total distance between start and finish. For those who are training with GPS, which I hope is most, this information is very easy to collec...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Anatomy and Physiology, Running, coaching
Rethinking Running for the Hills
by Carson Boddicker on Sep 10th, 2009
In the past, I've said that I'm not a big fan of using hills in training in those returning from injury. As I spend more time learning about the subject, I have begun to realize that it may be a short-sighted view and I should really be opposed to IMPROPER application of hill training. Recently as I was reviewing the DVD complement to Bosch and Klomp's Running; a point jumped out at me. If a hill has a slope greater than about 4 degrees, t...Read More » Tags
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