The other day I was reading an article on the net posted by some British physicist, and he said that recent studies have shown that uphill sprint training is a very helpful way of increasing stride,speed,and endurance.Does anyone think this could possibly be true/helpful or just talk?
Does anyone think this article could possibly be helpful?
Ive never heard of hill training before. I couldnt imagine why someone would want to even consider it.
Just playing man. You got no responses because this topic has been covered in length numerous times throught the site. Do a search and I am sure you will find out what youre looking for.
…thanks
we did a tiny bit of hill; stuff in the fall but nothing over 30m’s and it was during GPP in season and sp sp2 comp pre comp etc we woulnd’t touch a hill at all.
Love hills. Live off hills. Distances from 200 all the way down to 80 … Awesome for muscular endurance as well as speed as there is less elastic response.
I do 12 mile runs in extremely hilly terrain, does wonders for my 800 time 
OK yeah, can you give me some details on the hills?
i.e. pace on the varied distances? what degree of incline?
we have been doing hills regularly, as a strength workout; the degree varies from about 25 down to around 15 and the length is between 75m to 200m.
- we do usualy about a 80% of max and occasional 95%.
I thnk CF reccomends no more than a 10 - 15 degree incline.
During general prep and the first part of special prep we did hills of 100 meters on a 10-15% grade. We would run these at 90% with walk down recovery. We would start at 8 and 2 weeks later we’d do 10. Then it’d change to 150 meters but the end of the particualr hill would get steeper past 100 meters. We would do 6-8 of these. VERY TUFF WORKOUT! After 4-5 you start feeling alot of lactic acid. I would consider it a intensive tempo type workout.
I love running hills on a wet grass surface. I’ve been doing this kind of training for years and I’m now very good at it. Too bad they don’t run races on wet grass hills :mad:
Why wet grass?
how do you measure the gradient of hills?
I just look and give an approximation.
Hi D,
Are you saying that there is less elastic response …therefore you need to work harder up the hill, which therefore compounds the aspect of strength-endurance? (Sounds valid, never thought of it in quite those terms.)
Dazed, any reason you don’t go up hill further than 200m? I can see that would suffice for 100/200 and probably out to 300m on the track, but a bit further would also set you up for the muscular endurance needed to finish a really fast 400m. I guess you’re planning to get that power-endurance (as distinct from lactic tolerance) from other work?
I like those long hills, eventually moving forward to a complex of long-short as a strength wedge whenever I can appropriately fit it into a program otherwise dominated by track training.
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Are you posting under another name now Sharmer 
I wouldn’t go much over 250m. Over that your form gets sloppy, you get much slower. In my mind a 200m hill is equivalent to 300m. The best thing you can get from longer hills hills is the strength-endurance and aerobic component. The specific type of power endurance is best saved for the track where you can really concentrate on not breaking down the last 100m. I guess if you don’t break down after 300m on a hill than go for it. I don’t know how many 200/400m runners can though.
Does hills work your drive phase well? I’ve been having trouble with driving and I’ve heard that hills help
Hey How Goes?
Happy new year! The reason we kept the hills slightly shorter was that we were stacking them to get both lactic-tolerance and power end (Although we placed greater emphasis on the latter with our 6x150m hills workout, which you’ve seen).
The long hill workout is actually a part of a circuit, on lap consisting of 200m up the east side of Ryde Common, 100m jog west slong the top, 150m run down, 50m slow down, 100m jog east across the bottom to the 200m up hill start point. The work out consists of 3 1/2 of these (the half meaning you complete 4x200m hills and finish after no 4.), and is done continuously. Average recovery between runs is just under 3min and the entire workout takes 10-11 min.
Later we moved on to just doing 3 with a walk replacing the jogs.
Wow! That kind of workout would be enough to make one’s follicles fall out, wouldn’t you agree?
How fast do you run those 200m hills? Also, how fast do you run the 6x150m hills and how much rest do you take between each rep?
Thanks!