Here's How to Use Hill Sprints to Get Faster

18/11/2025 33 min Episodio 352
Here's How to Use Hill Sprints to Get Faster

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Sign up for the Supwell app for the best deals on running shoes and gears and/or to offload your shoes so your spouse lets you buy more shoes: https://supwell.circle.so/checkout/marketplace-and-forum-ld3nz (along with DAILY motivation, the most supportive hobby jogger community, best buy, sell and trade shoe marketplace and an exclusive 10% off discount code on hobby jogger gear)Hill sprints are a running-specific form of strength training that increases power, injury prevention and running economy. In this episode, I take you through how to do hill sprints and why they're an essential part of any runner's training program. I also run a set of hill sprints and share how they've positively impacted my own training.If you'd like to learn more about hill sprints, check out Brad Hudson's book: https://www.amazon.com/Run-Faster-5K-Marathon-Coach/dp/07679282290:00 Intro1:54 Goal of Hill Sprints3:01 How to Do Hill Sprints5:19 Warming Up for Hill Sprints7:46 Starting the Hill Sprints11:08 Cooling Down after Hill Sprints13:21 The 3 Benefits of Hill Sprints17:00 Benefit 1: Strength21:00 Benefit 2: Injury Prevention27:00 Benefit 3: Running EconomyThanks for watching! Here's how you can support the channel.1. Join my app to take your training to the next level. Buy/sell/trade running shoes and swap training and shoe advice with fellow hobby joggers: https://supwell.circle.so/checkout/marketplace-and-forum-ld3nz2. Buy your new shoes, running gear and fuel through my Running Warehouse link. I also have a discount code on the app above that gets you 20% off apparel and 10% off fuel and discount  https://www.runningwarehouse.com/?from=supwell3. Get matched with the best running shoe for you at https://runningshoematcher.com (I built the running shoe database and matching logic. It's pretty cool and actually works)4. Buy a hobby jogger hat and other cool Supwell Certified drip at https://hobbyjogger.com5. Follow the Instagram https://www.instagram.com/supwellrunning/