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    STRONGER climbing

    Dec 21, 2020 4 minutes
    With Fitness From Africa coach BRENDAN MCBIRNIE

    Elevate your training and develop hill strength.

    Do you have a big race coming up? Need to conquer some serious elevation? The advice you would expect to hear is to improve your hill strength. That is easy enough! Go find a big bad hill and start running up and down it until you get stronger.

    Unfortunately I am going to have to burst your trail running bubble: Hill repeats do not improve your leg strength.

    The science of strength

    Firstly let's have a look at what is happening when you go vertical. Climbing a hill is a combination of technique, cardiovascular fitness

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