What are your elliptical PRs?

What's your post record in 24 hours at LR? lol

Ellipted a 31:03 "10k" today lol

jamin wrote:

Ellipted a 31:03 "10k" today lol

Nice! Glad you are onto some cardio without aggravating the injury.

You rock!

Its much more useful to track strides at a set incline and resistance than mileage on an elliptical. At least that's what I've found. I've done 13500 strides at 10/10 in an hour, but elliptical is not a sport and I have no notion if thats worth anything. I sweated like a pig, but I think that's because the gym was kept at 70. I think the machine called it 8.x miles or something, idr. This was during a period of long term injury and after like 3 months of building up to this. Just starting out, I'd aim for 10000 strides in an hour at 10/10.

Less resistance seems too easy and more seemed counter productive/too hard. I pr'd at a few distances when I came back to running after this injury (which may have been prolonged by cross training, who knows), but dealt with hamstring issues probably because I was crosstraining 13 times a week.

So there you have it.

About 26 miles. They don't seem to be any better than round chainrings.

About 26 miles, although I don't think that ellipticals offer any benefit over round chainrings.

While wearing a mask I presume.

jamin wrote:

Ellipted a 31:03 "10k" today lol

What’s with the “lol”?

Are you implying that’s good? For general exercise purposes bike miles are typically are usually something like 1:2.7 to 1:3 relative to running. Makes sense that you cover something like 3x the distance on a bike compared to running for similar effort.

If you’re trying to do the chic humblebrag thing and imply that you’re fit or that people who use ellipticals are unfit, that’s just unbecoming. Lots of people are fit and healthy for their purposes. They’re not all skinny wiener runners.

I have a Octane Zero-Runner and pushed myself to a 16:50 5k on it. I was only in about 18:30 real running shape at the time. Still, a nice piece of equipment to supplement actual running.

jamin wrote:

Ellipted a 31:03 "10k" today lol

Brass tacks, dude.

Prior to this pandemic stuff, i used to love the elliptical ..i was roughly between 9.5/mile and 14/mile with varying resistance from 2.0 to 18.0 changing per minute.

The elliptical isn't simple...

Give us average resistance....average incline. And step rate per minute on average.

The Precor is multi data.

If no resistance and no incline, you're basically skiing

What did you do?

B0NER wrote:

jamin wrote:

Ellipted a 31:03 "10k" today lol

What’s with the “lol”?

Are you implying that’s good? For general exercise purposes bike miles are typically are usually something like 1:2.7 to 1:3 relative to running. Makes sense that you cover something like 3x the distance on a bike compared to running for similar effort.

If you’re trying to do the chic humblebrag thing and imply that you’re fit or that people who use ellipticals are unfit, that’s just unbecoming. Lots of people are fit and healthy for their purposes. They’re not all skinny wiener runners.

My elliptical mile PR is like 24 minutes, hate to say it but Jamin is rightfully flexing hard rn