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Boundless Life

How A Manual Treadmill Can Teach You To Run, And How To Use One Properly (Even At A Desk).

Boundless Life

Ben Greenfield

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Last year, I posted an article entitled "", and created the video ""  In both those resources, and on many podcasts (including ), I've talked about and featured a special kind of treadmill called a . See, when I set about to modify my standing...

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In this episode of The Benbury from Fitness Show.

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First, treadmill is to go back at least a couple hundred years.

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Back from a patent filing, you think that this is how people used to mill their corn or turn their butter in their kitchen.

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As you found, it's really appropriate for walking, controlling your pace,

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for jogging, slowing down to a walk, sprinting, slowing down to a walk.

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You don't need to jump off. You just use your body position to control your speed.

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If you stand straight up and you lean from your ankles, you fall forward.

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So that's a more efficient position to be in, because you're having the benefit of a forward fall.

0:36.0

He's an expert in human performance and nutrition.

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Voted America's top personal trainer and one of the globe's most influential people in health and fitness.

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His show provides you with everything you need to optimize physical and mental performance.

0:51.0

He is Ben Greenfield.

0:54.0

Power, speed, mobility, balance, whatever it is for you that's the natural movement.

1:02.0

Get out there.

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When you look at all the studies done, the studies that have shown the greatest efficacy.

1:10.0

All the information you need in one place, right here, right now, on the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast.

1:24.0

Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here.

1:35.0

And last year, I actually posted an article on the Ben GreenfieldFitness.com site entitled,

1:41.0

How to Turn Your Desk into a Calorie Decimating Workstation.

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And in that article, I highlighted basically how I designed my office.

1:51.0

So I had this empty office and wanted to just outfit it with the exact setup that would allow me to be productive during the day,

2:01.0

still burn calories, still build endurance, and also, and this is really important to me,

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