Your Questions on Treadmill Running Answered
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
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🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
When the weather is perfect, there's nothing better than a nice run outdoors. But when it's not so great, or when it's downright miserable running weather, you have three options:
- Run in terrible and/or unsafe conditions anyway
- Skip your run and hide under the covers
- Or, if you have access, hop on treadmill
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But is treadmill running really the same as running outside?
Do you really need to adjust the incline or play around with your speed to make it more like outdoors?
And why doesn't the machine ever line up with your running watch?
On today's Run to the Top, I'm going to answer those questions with the latest research. I'll also go over how to use the treadmill to get the best workout and I'll even get into how to make the dreadmill a lot less dreadful.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there my running friend this is Coach Claire Bartholic, the Planted Runner, and this is the Run to the Top |
| 0:15.4 | Podcast, one of the first and only running podcast dedicated to making you a better runner |
| 0:20.9 | with each and every episode. We are created and produced by the |
| 0:24.6 | expert team of running coaches at runnersconnect.net where you can find the |
| 0:29.7 | best running |
| 0:33.0 | coaching plans to fit every runner and every budget. |
| 0:39.0 | When the weather is perfect, |
| 0:41.0 | when the weather is perfect, |
| 0:42.0 | there's nothing better than a nice run outside. |
| 0:45.0 | But when it's not so great or when it's downright miserable running weather, |
| 0:50.0 | you have three options. |
| 0:52.0 | Go ahead and run in the terrible and or unsafe conditions anyway. |
| 0:57.0 | Skip your run and hide under the covers. |
| 0:59.0 | Or if you have the access, hop on the treadmill. |
| 1:02.0 | But is treadmill running really the same as running? the like outside? And why doesn't the machine ever line up with your running watch? |
| 1:14.8 | On today's run to the top, I'm going to answer those questions with the latest |
| 1:20.5 | research. I'll also go over how to use the treadmill to get the best |
| 1:23.8 | workout and I'll even get into how to make the dreadmill a lot less dreadful. |
| 1:28.5 | Maybe, just maybe, even fun. |
| 1:39.0 | As we often say here on the run to the top, no two athletes are the same. That's why we love inside trackers, easy to use blood tests that can help you optimize your nutrition |
| 1:44.8 | and workouts based on your personalized data. |
| 1:47.7 | I'll tell you more about them later on in the show, but if you want to learn more now, |
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