77. The Science and Theory of Uphill and Downhill Running

Some Work, All Play

David Roche and Megan Roche

Running, Sports

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Sexy Science Corner! We dig deep on the studies and training theory of uphill and downhill running to draw some conclusions for how athletes can support long-term growth on all terrain. The big question: what is the best training approach to improve all-around running ability, including on steeps? We call it "the climbing paradox"--focus excessively on steep ups and downs at the expense of well-rounded training, and eventually an athlete may get a bit slower at everything. The rationale gets at some fascinating questions about physiology and what contributes to long-term growth for all runners. As you'll hear, it has been a VISION QUEST of a week. Thank you so much for your love and support in this time, and always. We appreciate you all! WOOHOO! Subscribe to Trail Runner Magazine here: trailrunnermag.com/outsideplus 3-Minute Mountain Legs: https://www.trailrunnermag.com/training/strength-training-training/3-minute-mountain-legs 8-Minute Speed Legs: https://www.trailrunnermag.com/training/strength-training-training/8-minute-speed-legs Weekly Strength Work Cheat Sheet: https://www.trailrunnermag.com/training/strength-training-training/all-in-one-strength-work-cheat-sheet WHOOP promo code for 15% off all memberships: SWAP

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0:00.0	Woo! Welcome to the Summer Girl Play podcast. We are so happy to be with you today.
0:04.4	Happy Friday! It's Friday! It's officially a sexy science corner Friday.
0:08.0	Actually, we started calling the last podcast science corner and a listener
0:11.4	complaining that like, guys, it's officially sexy science corner. So, we are
0:15.3	rebranding and adding the sexy. I feel like we're just doubling down on the brand.
0:19.9	Like, we need to have the sexy or the listeners get furious. So, yeah, we haven't
0:25.3	recorded in a little bit. We miss this week. Do a number of different issues,
0:30.1	but we do want to say happy Thanksgiving. We kind of missed that whole that whole
0:33.9	boat. We're almost a Christmas now. So, yeah, happy holidays, I guess. We hope you had an
0:38.4	awesome Thanksgiving. We had to be a non-traditional Thanksgiving as a
0:41.6	continued theme from last Thanksgiving when it was heavier COVID times. We did
0:45.6	some friends giving. We went up to the cabin in Netherlands. Yeah. We did some
0:49.3	running in Walker Ranch and that's about where that story ends before she got
0:53.4	very real. Shit did get quite real last week. So, yeah, what do you want to say
0:58.4	on that? Like, what's going on now? We can talk about it more next week. I would
1:01.8	say this. I am pretty short of breath. So, we have some reading coming up and
1:06.2	the reading might be on point eight speed. It's in Paris into the normal point 1.5
1:10.1	speed. But we actually, we've been seeing quite a number of people at Walker
1:13.6	Ranch. So, we've been talking about just how amazing Walker Ranch here is a
1:16.7	Boulder for training. It's the training grounds that breeds a lot of mental
1:20.6	toughness and a lot of physical toughness and maybe too much physical toughness.
1:24.0	But this weekend, we saw a number of podcast listeners out there and it was
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