Hills for training
/The top five reasons we like Hills for training ankle rocker and hip extension
1. Hills do not cost money and are almost always readily available
2. Hills do not pull the hip into extension and place of stretch on the anterior hip musculature including the rectus femoris, iliopsoas and iliacus. This causes a slow stretch of the muscle activating the muscle spindles and causing muscle contraction via the stretch reflex. This will inhibit the posterior compartment of hip extensors through reciprocal inhibition, making it difficult to fire them.
3. A hill does not force your knee into extension, eliciting a stretch reflex in the hamstrings like a treadmill does
4. A hill naturally puts the ankle into dorsiflexion, And, along with active pulling up of the toes, helps you to get more into your anterior compartment and limits the tendency of the ankle being pulled into dorsiflexion (like a treadmill) which would initiate a stretch reflex in the gastroc/soleus and long flexors for the toes
5. The increased hip flexor recruitment of going uphill gives you more opportunity to engage your abs before the psoas and rectus femoris/TFL and, on the stance phase leg, you can get an increased stretch of those muscles
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