I’m injured and I started the elliptical today for 50 min. MY LEGS WERE BURNING LIKE CRAZY AT ONLY 10 RESISTANCE. I cannot imagine cracking that thing to 15+, pretty sure i’d only be able to go for 3 min max. My garmin said my heart rate was around 155-170 the whole time and I was drenched in sweat after. Anybody else feel like the elliptical is a crazy hard workout?
Ellipticals workouts are much more difficult than running at equal heartrates.
I do my easy runs with a heart rate of 115-125 and it feels effortless. I used the elliptical yesterday and it felt like torture getting my heart rate up to 120. My legs hurt and I was sweating like a whore in church.
It's crazy how hard it is to get your heart rate up to even just 65% max on one of those machines.
Elliptical has ramp as well as resistance. Its a lot harder to go the same pace you'd run, so go by effort. 10ramp/10 resistance is a good standard to train at. You can play with these for easy days and workouts.
TroyDaniels wrote:
I’m injured and I started the elliptical today for 50 min.
Anybody else feel like the elliptical is a crazy hard workout?
Well, Natalie Cook has been using an elliptical machine like crazy that past year after she suffered some injuries, and she recently blew away the previous high school girls 5k record. Maybe elliptical is the new secret to fast running?
Kvothe wrote:
Elliptical has ramp as well as resistance. Its a lot harder to go the same pace you'd run, so go by effort. 10ramp/10 resistance is a good standard to train at. You can play with these for easy days and workouts.
Thank you for this, I may do this in the winter more than being an idiot and trying to run on the roads in the cold and ice. And like you said, there are adjustments for EZ days and workouts.
Natalie Cook Likes Elliptical wrote:
Maybe elliptical is the new secret to fast running?
Maybe and if true that recognition could change running training as you could plug in more training hours/per week.
Harder then?
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It's harder because you have not developed elliptical muscles. I have the same issue when first start riding my bike. At first I can barely hit 110-120 HR (ez run pace) but after a few weeks, I'm able to hold 120HR on the bike (which is why I go by power/watts on a bike.) It takes time for you muscles cash the check you cardio can deliver since you are a runner and not really an "elliptical er." So it is harder and takes more effort to hit the same heart rates. To be honest, just go by effort not heart rate. Running is running and other activities are other activities.
Any exercise is really as hard as you make it.