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I started hill sprints a few blocks ago. I have been humbled! Currently, I've been doing 5 reps, jogging down, and a two minute rest. To advance, should I decrease rest intervals first, add reps, or increase distance ( I have yet to sprint up the entire abomination).
Thanks

I've always started with ~5 hills, 15-30 seconds long, and tried to add another hill every session until I get to 10. I've honestly never paid much attention to rest intervals on longer hills(30 seconds +). I find as I just do them consistently, my RIs naturally decrease. Certainly you could work on reducing them, but personally I wouldn't worry about that until you're doing 10+ 30 second hills consistently in a session.

Dot hop wrote:I started hill sprints a few blocks ago. I have been humbled! Currently, I've been doing 5 reps, jogging down, and a two minute rest. To advance, should I decrease rest intervals first, add reps, or increase distance ( I have yet to sprint up the entire abomination).
Thanks

Roughly how long does it take you to get to your turn around point? What's the distance?

Dot hop wrote:I started hill sprints a few blocks ago. I have been humbled! Currently, I've been doing 5 reps, jogging down, and a two minute rest. To advance, should I decrease rest intervals first, add reps, or increase distance ( I have yet to sprint up the entire abomination).
Thanks

You'd be fine with any of those options.

DocOctagon wrote:

Dot hop wrote:I started hill sprints a few blocks ago. I have been humbled! Currently, I've been doing 5 reps, jogging down, and a two minute rest. To advance, should I decrease rest intervals first, add reps, or increase distance ( I have yet to sprint up the entire abomination).
Thanks

Roughly how long does it take you to get to your turn around point? What's the distance?

35 seconds or so. I have a hard time judging the distance due to the grade.

Dot hop wrote:

DocOctagon wrote:

Dot hop wrote:I started hill sprints a few blocks ago. I have been humbled! Currently, I've been doing 5 reps, jogging down, and a two minute rest. To advance, should I decrease rest intervals first, add reps, or increase distance ( I have yet to sprint up the entire abomination).
Thanks

Roughly how long does it take you to get to your turn around point? What's the distance?

35 seconds or so. I have a hard time judging the distance due to the grade.

In that case if I were you I would aim for two objectives;

1. Work on making it up the entire hill 5 times. Don't get overly concerned about rest intervals and timings. Maybe start with one full length run, + 4 halves, and over time work up to 5 full.

After you reach that goal (give yourself a lot of time, no need to rush) work on your second goal;

2. Up the entire hill 10 times. Break it down like #1. 5 full and 1 half to start, incrementally progress over time.

Really take your time and think in terms of months and years with each progression, you're getting fitter and fitter anyway so it's not like you're losing anything. That would be my .02 anyway!

Great points. I'll work on distance, then reps. Thanks for the responses.