Strides
Why?
- Strides serve as a transition to faster workouts
- low-impact on body → less risk of getting injured
- makes you faster, with less effort 🏃♂️
- almost no recovery cost
When?
They can be added to almost any run, particularly the day before workouts or hard efforts.
Because there is almost no recovery cost after an initial adaptation period, hill strides can be effective multiple times per week near the end of runs. In general, our athletes do them one to three times in a normal week, more often the day before harder efforts (or after harder efforts, as in a combo workout), and more often early in training than right before longer events.
→ the day before hard workouts
How?
Run Strides With Me (Real-Time Strides Demo!) - YouTube
- 20-30 sec or 80-90 m distance
Hill Strides
- hill with 4-8% altitude
- 15 - 30 sec hill intervals
- 1 - 2 min easy running recovery (better to recover more than to rush into the next interval)
- 4 - 8 times
🔗 References
Run Faster On Trails With Power Hill Strides
What Are Strides? Why You Need to be Running Strides - Strength Running