Uphill Athlete's video: Training Outside the Box

With a simple setup like the one shown in this short video, we can control and monitor such variables as speed, grade, heart rate, vertical distance climbed, and even blood lactate, all of which allow us to monitor the athlete’s improvement in ensuing sessions. We can build progressive workouts that build upon previous ones. This particular workout, done at a 25% grade, was 30 minutes of 30 seconds on/30 seconds off done at maximum sustainable effort. This is a race-paced aerobic endurance workout for a high-level athlete, and is just one example of a workout. We use different types of workouts to produce different training effects. For more visit www.uphillathlete.com