Have any of you found that treadmill running is more difficult than outside? Maybe it's just that I'm soft, but I try 10 miles at marathon pace outside and can do it without much difficulty, but it's much harder to run it inside.
Have any of you found that treadmill running is more difficult than outside? Maybe it's just that I'm soft, but I try 10 miles at marathon pace outside and can do it without much difficulty, but it's much harder to run it inside.
....and much more boring. What you CAN do on a tredmill is to crank it up to 15 miles/hr and do 4-minute mile pace over 10-15 minutes. Because you do not have to push off it is possible to do that on the tredmill but harder on the roads. Trouble is.........tredmills break!
Gerry/Jogger wrote:
....and much more boring. What you CAN do on a tredmill is to crank it up to 15 miles/hr and do 4-minute mile pace over 10-15 minutes. Because you do not have to push off it is possible to do that on the tredmill but harder on the roads. Trouble is.........tredmills break!
Treadmill.
10-15 minutes at 4 minute pace? No problem...
At that pace, the heat is what makes it so difficult.
I could lose 9 lbs in a 90 minute treadmill workout.
If you want to achieve your running goals and have to train on a treadmill, find a comfortable one, I like TRUE treadmills, and run. It may be a little harder, so what, challenge yourself and make the best of it. Also consider, some people have no access to treadmills and yet, still manage to do their workouts.
Joan Benoit trained on a treadmill and won an Olympic Gold medal. Perhaps this will inspire you.
Make sure that you have a fan blowing on your, if not, it is likely that you are overheating. Unless you know that your treadmill is callibrated correctly - which most are not - you could be running much faster or slower than what is shown on the display.
Yes; I've had two treadmills and my road times are much quicker.
Depends on the model and/or calibration. The gym I belong to has two models of treadmills. One model seems very accurate. For the other, I feel like the belt goes a good bit faster than the pace indicated on the display (harder than outside on the roads).
first off find me a treadmill that goes to 15 mph, but thats another story, and no you still have to push off on a treadmill or else you fly off, the treadmill spins the opposite direction, so your theory is off. however i feel for that same reason it is more difficult to run on a treadmill at that it says is an equivilent pace, because it whips your legs backward so effort is a little more intense.
But if you put an airplane on 2 treadmills going at the same speed, would the airplane be able to take off?
curious runner wrote:
first off find me a treadmill that goes to 15 mph, but thats another story, and no you still have to push off on a treadmill or else you fly off, the treadmill spins the opposite direction, so your theory is off. however i feel for that same reason it is more difficult to run on a treadmill at that it says is an equivilent pace, because it whips your legs backward so effort is a little more intense.
i agree with the OP completely. ive discussed it with teammates, and they all disagree, but i feel like i am running faster on a treadmill than what they say you are running. ie. 7 min pace on treadmill feels like 630 pace on the track. ive even tested it out. ran a on a treadmill, gotten off it and ran at the same pace/intensity. it seemed to be about 30 seconds faster. but everything ive read says the complete opposite.
If you put the threadmill in front of a high definition television it can be quite entertaining. I once did a marathon distance watching both Godfather 1&2.
Slipping belts are sometimes a problem with public gym treadmills. For one thing it is not uncommon for those machines to have at least 25,000 miles on them! Sometimes you get the "replace wax mixer" warning message on some of those treadmills, which means lubrication is needed. Some of these damaged treadmills will maintain 10mph then suddenly will decrease to 7 mph. You have to constantly use the increase speed button to get it back to 10mph. You can spend your whole work out pressing the increase speed button every 5 to 10 seconds. This is what I would call a fried treadmill. The first sign of a fried treadmill with over 25,000 miles on it is a slipping tread and a wobbling structure. One of these machines at our local gym had over 75,000 miles on it according to a repairman that was called to the scene.
A good home treadmill will not usually see these problems because it is doubtful you are going to have many people using it. If you get a cheap treadmill at Sears maybe you will see some of the aforementioned problems.
Has anyone ever run a 4 minute mile on a threadmill?
(Link Below)Very funny take on a threadmill.
"An evil treadmill interrupts a man's plan to spend the afternoon quietly watching football. Whether you're a housewife, a child or a traveling salesman, no one is safe from the heavy hand of justice… or sledgehammers."
-atomfilms
Artist David Lynch
Airplanes can't take off @ 15 mph
...and please don't call me Shirley...
Kiddos wrote:
Have any of you found that treadmill running is more difficult than outside? Maybe it's just that I'm soft, but I try 10 miles at marathon pace outside and can do it without much difficulty, but it's much harder to run it inside.
I hear you. I always seem to tense up earlier and have more trouble breathing, like I have a bad cold or something.
It's hard. 7:30 on the treadmill feels like 6:30 on the road. Or maybe it's just boring.
curious runner wrote:
first off find me a treadmill that goes to 15 mph,
I forget the brand (I haven't been able to run in 2 years) but we have a couple treadmills at the YMCA I work out at the goes to 15mph. I was doing 30 second intervals at that speed (200m equivelant) and it was insanely fast for inside. Everyone was staring at me about half way through the workout. Based on my outside runs, these treadmills were extremely accurate probably because they were so new.