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If you want to get stronger and faster there is nothing quite like HILL TRAINING to give you the biggest return on your training investment. Hill training offers great gains for relatively low injury risk. Furthermore, most races have hills in them and athletes who have not prepared for a hilly course will be at a significant disadvantage over those who’ve used the benefits of hill training to the full. Working in the hills allows you to include a variety of training stimuli in the same session and this allows you to develop not only your metabolic fitness but also your strength, technique and speed all at the same time. We like to think of hill work as “aerobic strength training” and it is a key part of every athlete’s development….