Hot Take: If you're training for the 5k, you don't need more than an hour on the elliptical. Save the long stuff for the trails and roads outside. Shuffling around for two hours for little to no stimulus is a waste of time. An hour is enough if you're actually working hard.
A Waste of Time wrote:
Hot Take: If you're training for the 5k, you don't need more than an hour on the elliptical. Save the long stuff for the trails and roads outside. Shuffling around for two hours for little to no stimulus is a waste of time. An hour is enough if you're actually working hard.
College 5k national record holder Parker Valby and high school 5k national record holder Elizabeth Leachman say that you're wrong.
me when im wrong
Use an arc machine. It works for Parker Valby.
This feels like something you wish you had said to someone who you're jealous of because they are faster than you even though you "train the right way"
You gotta set it to highest difficulty to get your heart pumping.
i think the training effects of cross training really varies person to person. If i did hard cross training like parker valby, i think my running would suffer because id be too tired for my main running sessions.