Feeling nauseous and lightheaded during hills.

Yes, you're running them too hard for the purpose they serve. You turned them into a race and you're not in race shape.

Coach said do hills hard, like all out sprints. So I did them as hard as I could. Should I back off at the beginning of a strengthening phase, and start giving better effort as training progresses? Or am I only suppose to give like 85% effort all throughout training?

Your prior thread about diet was concerning for possible under- and malnutrition. Re-evaluate that.

Don't worry about that anymore :D I'm eating 2.5k calories everyday now and making sure to get 40-50g of fat and 40-50 grams of protein.

The other thing is hydration during the session.

It looks like you are a typical lazy American runner.

If you are not vomiting at the end of a good hill workout then you are not doing the hill workout in the correct way.

All Aussies and Kiwis run until they vomit at the conclusion of ALL hill workouts.

Rod 'Emesis" Dixon liked to vomit before workouts on Sunday morning.

I made Herb Elliot throw up all the time on hills.

It was fun.

I made lots of Aussies throw up on hills:

http://trisutto.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Cerutty_sand-dunes.jpg

It's fun.

Lmao, Is that why Herb Elliot didn't have the lengthy career of Bernard Lagat's? Cause you made him throw up all the time? {BAD JOKE, I KNOW}

[quote]RejectRunner wrote:

Herb Elliot never lost a mile or 1500m race from 1957 to 1961. He won the 1500m gold medal at the 1960 Olympics and broke his own world record in 3:35.6 at the same time, which made all the other runners in the race throw up.

We also did weight training to improve running economy 50 years before NOP Alberto Salazar tried to copy all my training stuff.

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/runner-herb-eilliot-watching-his-trainer-percy-cerutty-lift-weights-picture-id50400273?s=594x594

The Percy Cerutty book is mandatory reading by the 10th grade.

What kind of surface are you running on? Grass?

I wouldn't recommend it unless your on sand.

Probably due to the change in altitude.

Or fluids in the head drained unhindered downwards

Excuse me, but change in altitude? I was just running up a 60m hill. A 60m change in altitude caused that? Again I'm sorry, but I do not know much about the technical aspects of running.

You can feel sick and lightheaded after any workout where you put out maximum effort. It turns out to be an ineffective way to train. Save that kind of effort for races, or rarely for important workouts. But not for hill sprints in base. Take more rest or do fewer reps.

take two of these wrote:

You can feel sick and lightheaded after any workout where you put out maximum effort. It turns out to be an ineffective way to train. Save that kind of effort for races, or rarely for important workouts. But not for hill sprints in base. Take more rest or do fewer reps.

Here is more good advice for typical lazy American runners from Runners World America:

Take it easy, chill , don't run so fast, run slower, run less than anyone else, write long blogs about your last 5K race, be more lazy, take weeks off for no reason, eat more fat.

If your coach said do them hard, that doesn't have to mean as hard as you can.

When I do hills, it is supposed to feel like 5k Race Pace effort.... you are probably hammering them too hard