How to improve your climbing (and fall in LOVE with HILLS)

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[BulletproofCycling]

Hey folks, experimenting with different types of video. In this one I am in the hills with the Go Pro. Happy to hear your comments about video and if you want more outside riding videos. 👍

[warwickpadmore]

Coach, I love climbing! That is, I love watching others climb. Before you reached the plateau, you appeared to be grinding it out at - from what I could estimate - 55-60rpm, on the big ring and a middle cog. I’m a bigger rider (also older) and I would absolutely blow up with that setup.
Always entertaining and good humoured! Cheers!

[robertosantoro]

Cycling and conveying messages almost in a poetic way. You coach are a master 🙌

[GeoffGummer]

Hi. I live in New Zealand (and have Scottish ancestors so every time I hear your accent somethin inside me sorta triggers, in a good way), and I am 140KG. Gravity and I dont get along. Yes, I could lose some weight, but considering I have gone down from 220KG, and been this weight for 6-8 years, its probably about where I will end up. I am still allergic to hills, but what I do now is I have 2 bikes, a cheap commutery type thing with compact crankset and a decent size big cog on the cluster, and a a roadie with full size gears. I do about 3 rides a week, 2 shorter ones and one long one. On the short ones I primarily ride up some hills with 13% sections using the commuter. Then on the weekends I combine all the hills in one longer ride on the roadie. I find that this works well, I dont blow out during the week (i'm also 55yr old, so recovery is slow), and then I find I can push the big gears a bit more. I'm going to apply some of the stuff you have said here as well and see how I go.

[Pleasure_Baron]

Took a while, but hills, I love them. Absolute favorite.

[jtatepdx]

What a beautiful country to ride in! One thing that helps me is to do big hill days when it’s (somewhat) cold and rainy. It sounds miserable, but nothing stokes the metabolic furnace like a hard climb. It’s reverse psychology — I find myself dreading the wind chill of fast descents and eagerly anticipating big hills!

[martinrodgers]

Climbing with one hand on the bars and the other taking the video....that is talent!!

[thatguy]

Passion is Passion, keep 'em coming Kinetic Cycle!

[cb]

Thanks beautiful where you're riding ! Peace

[Guitarty]

Wrong side of 70 I now love hills thanks to my MTB Ebike its great to enjoy the countryside without puffing and blowing for tugs or breaking sweat.

[Mrmarginofsafety]

My tip, make sure you have adequate bail out gearing before your hilly adventure in case your fatigue gets the better of you. A 36 cassette is a good place to start.

[haroldhollingsworthesq]

appreciate your take on this, super appreciate

[miivii]

I like your style of passing infos. Keep on going and thanks for your effort.

[moragfish]

This is perfect timing!!! 🚴🏻‍♀️ 🏔 Thank you!!

[chrisby]

Another great video, good to see the country side

[paulbaker]

To be a better climber go out and climb more ! 👍😉

[bonn]

love this video.. my best thing was switch from from a 26 to a 28.

[cathalkenneally]

Spent nearly 2 and a half hours on a hybrid Saturday. It was tricky to get any speed but my Garmin told me that I had some record climbing even though I didn’t encounter any major climbs. It made a difficult ride worthwhile.

[edwardmordas]

Great video and being outside on the bike makes it realistic. Excellent tips and interestingly I have recently been pushing some harder gears up my usual hill climbs and seeing some real benefits. Thanks and keep up the good work - much appreciated.

[nelsonguerrero]

Thanks for sharing mate. Nice climb. If you are ever in the US hudson Valley region look me up I'll take you on some beautiful climbs here. Be safe and ride on 🙏