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<p style=”text-align: left;”>Building up to that first ME session I had been doing a lot of unweighted training on a 30-40% outdoors and a few times with a 25# pack. I just guessed on that 40# being adequate & just pushed my speed to what seemed a hair below my speed on previous steep hill sessions. I’m sure you’re getting a great ME effect cuz that’s a ton of weight! but depending how fast you plan on moving in whatever goals your working towards you might want to adjust things. I ended up sticking with 60# and just increasing my speed to get more vertical in. I was training for backcountry mountain hunting and wanted to be able to motor uphill if I needed to with a 40# pack. It def did the trick and I ended up packing out three 85-100 lb loads even though I only worked up to 60#</p>