Oct, 27, 2011
Hill Sprints Club - For Serious Leg Strength - Exceptional Fat Loss and Overall Awesomeness
Hill Sprints For Serious Leg Strength – Exceptional Fat Loss and Overall Awesomeness
Sprinting For Strength Power and Overall Awesomeness
Hill Sprints For Serious Leg Strength – Exceptional Fat Loss and Overall Awesomeness
Each week when I have to come up with another set of exercises designed to assault every fat cell in my bootcamper’s bodies, there’s one exercise that I almost feel “guilty” if I leave out. Big surprise eh? Doesn’t take a retired meathead to figure this one out. So more weeks than not we start with some variety of hill sprints.
Why then you may ask do I favor them over pretty much everything else? Let me start my answer by asking you a question… Have you ever done a series of 3-5 hard hill sprints? If so, you likely already understand why. There’s very few exercises that can so effectively annihilate you so rapidly.
Working at 100% intensity means you’re producing the most force you can possibly produce, which equates to both increases in strength as well as increased rate of force production (Power). But sprints offer more still.
Of course there’s the fat loss due to an increase in excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC)… but the part I’m most excited about them is that sprints breed athleticism and overall awesomeness!
We use hill sprints since we have such a nice hill just outside the gym. We also do loaded hill sprints using sandbags or kettlebells and often mix a couple different exercises into a mini-circuit.
Folks rocking out KB loaded hill sprints in the dark…
Definitely increasing their overall AWESOMNESS quotient!
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