 All right, so I'm just walking up this hill at the end of a run and I Want to encourage you guys in this like super quick little video to consider walking a Useful training method as a runner we tend to You know feel like if we're walking we are we're wimps or you know, it's just like oh, no, I can't walk But honestly you got to realize what is the purpose of your workout? That's what you got to ask yourself and for example for most of the runs that you should be doing it should be an easy Intensity so that you can accumulate a lot of volume to train that aerobic system Which is the most important system for any endurance runners, so If that's the goal accumulating time in an easy aerobic state When you reach a hill your heart rate is going to go up a lot, right? That's normal But then you're going to get up the hill faster And maybe if your objective isn't really again to spike that heart rate up real high and work on your Lactate threshold and all that stuff, but actually accumulating time in that case It's my it might be better for you to actually walk the hill Stay in that lower heart rate zone zone one zone two Especially if you're in on a recovery easy day and then just accumulate more time And there's also another thing to consider. Let's say hello here to the alpaca. They really like Dan the lion check it out now Cute Yeah, so it allows you to accumulate more time and also you got to realize that walking is Necessary sometimes especially in ultra marathons, especially if the gradient is very steep Walking is actually necessary. So if you never walk you you're not going to be able to train You're walking right Training is very specific the principle of specificity says that you'll be good at whatever you train at right So if you're running a lot, you'll be good at running But not necessarily good at cycling, right? There's a certain amount of crossover there, but you want to spend as much time Training specifically for the sport that you're working at and that goes for walking too So if walking is a part of your sport as a mountain runner Maybe as an ultra runner and that I'm inspired aspiring to be ultimately at one point Well, then walking is going to be an important List to some degree an important factor to train. That's why I'm gonna do that There's more alpacas and that's where I live in the red house behind the white house. Anyway, let's sum it up If you're in a hard workout, if you're doing a hard workout and you're you want to stay in your lactate threshold zone Sure, you run up that hill and you probably shouldn't walk But if you're looking for time spent running you're training your aerobic system If you're in that base training phase and the the point is actually spending time Running and in that ease intensity and especially if you're on a recovery day will then walking on the hills Could be a good strategy actually to keep your heart rate down and as I said ultimately Train as a walker as well because it is part of the sport if you're doing ultra running and mountain running All right. Thanks for watching. Hope you're doing great. Let me know in the comments if you walk Sometimes during your runs most of us do anyone who says they never do probably is lying or or or just being or they're just extremely fit But even then I would be skeptical if they said they never walk Here we are The farm That's my parents house there That's my house. There's where I live with Mads That's the barn And our grandparents are behind there the hill there So it's a nice nice place to stay Thanks for watching subscribe