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December 29, 2022 at 12:17 am #123701

brianlcox

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Hi Nick,

Thanks for the reply. I agree that holding kettlebells are probably the way to go once the backpack gets too heavy. I will get a 12kg and a 16kg from my brother-in-law to try out.

My thought is that I might not really need to go heavier though. I’m already at 55-60% of body weight, which seems to be around the point where adding more strength stops helping improve running as much. Maybe I should just move to 2x per week hill sprints now.

I also do speed work (such as 16x 200m or 8x 400m) onceper week to help with running economy.

Best,

Brian