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I like to walk/jog/run and I really don't get tired, except when uphill. Why? What can I do to fix this? I've always been lousy at uphill and quickly exert myself. I am REALLY limber and to a fault - I am somewhat cautious so I don't hurt myself.

Well you can look on it in a different way.

Walking (or running) up a steep slope is hard work, I have climbed 45 degree slopes which are covered in small rocks (hard work). But when you are going down it is very easy to pick up speed and then you might fall and hurt yourself, so you need to make a physcial effort to avoid converting PE into KE too fast.

I am sure that you understand that mgh = 0.5 m v^2, so gh = v^2

So as a result I find going down steep slopes harder work than going up.

I think that the best walking is with a dog.

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Yes, and in a sense, that's why it's peculiar that others who run tell me that downhill can be harder for them! Seems to defy physics, but apparently downhill can be harder on a runner's knees and feet. For me, downhill is a breeze! Uphill is harder, comparatively, than it ought to be for me...sigh. Maybe just a personalized physiological thingy. In any case, I'd like to start jogging more in my "new" home

Go down sideways or slant yourself at an angle. You may look funny, but I think you would look funnier actually rolling down too- and that would hurt. Take the slope at a slower pace, work the legs.

It could be simply your body is not used to hill running. When I first started running I could not run yup a hill to save my life but what I did was run up them all the more.
Just find a nice steady slope and just practice running up it with the rest of your running route, change the pace aswell at intervals to get used to it.

For beginners or as it is ritten in book is take short fast paces up hill and larger ones down hill or on flat. try going up diffrent measured hill seperate this training from your original runs. try doing interval sprintsa as a training regime. Runing so fast so far up etc at diffrent paces, then once a week go hill running or aka fell running, go up the hill where it is nice and quiet and just take your time run and walk if you have to just to get into it then over x amount of time do less walking and more running. also once you have completed a full hill run try picking the pace up every so often until that is continues. also mix the hill runs up a bit so your not doing the same one over again.

make sure you do all this in steady and easy proportions and to the level of your fittness never push to hard or over excert yourself, remmber to keep hydrated and to stretch regularly after your training session.

good luck

^ Yes, thanks, spudgun.....Really I think it's more of an oxygen intake/out-take and acclimating than muscle and strength. I can walk uphill just fine but really quickly am out of breath uphill running. I'll try a quick sprint firstly.

It also depends on the type of ground cover.Going up a grassy or compact dirt slope is easier than unconsolidated, loose sand/ash/scree. With the former, you loose some progress with each step as you sink in and go downhill a few centimetres. (2 steps up, 1 step back). Not so with grassy or compact dirt slopes (the latter assuming no appreciable precip within the last day or two).

Downhill, the scree/sand/ash is much easier as what held one back going up, assists gong down (2 steps down + 1 step of sliding). Grass and compact dirt don't have that property.

~CGKings317

I really love running up hill haha.I live in a fairly flat neighborhood but there is an overpass,so if I remember I run up the overpass when I go for a walk. I don't like running through neighborhoods though,need privacy to run.

think of it in simple terms......like gravity. uphill-working against gravity.......downhill-working with gravity. as far as how it effects your body........it's like climbing steps in a building, climbing 1000-2000 steps makes you tired but going down 1000-2000 steps is incredibly hard on your knees and your quad muscles. you must train to run downhills just like you would train for a marathon.