Electric Treadmill vs Outdoor Running

by Audrey Aniston

An electric treadmill is probably the most widely owned exercise machine in the house. I have several friends who have such equipment at home. It might not be the cheapest exercise machine, but it is probably the easiest one to use, as what is so difficult about walking or running on a conveyor belt.

I’ve always seen people running on treadmill and it seems so easy and relaxed. They could watch TV, eat and talk with others at the same time. I never really grow much interest to an electric treadmill as I think that it is just another one of those over-promoted workout equipment. I could go to the stadium or even the park or even at my house and do the same workout, what’s so difficult about walking around at the same place anyway.

Running On Electric Treadmill

Running On Electric Treadmill

However, after a first encounter with an electric treadmill, I definitely changed my mind about electric treadmill. Working on an electric treadmill is quite unlike running or jogging or walking on the track. It strains the muscle more than merely running on our own and you tend to get more tired on an electric treadmill than the running tracks. Thus, it creates better results.

For that one time at a friend’s house, everyone got bored and got on board an electric treadmill to have some running fun. I saw that they all had a great time but when they eventually stepped down, they were all panting and feeling their loud heart beat, even for those who only ran for ten minutes. So, it got me curious and aroused my interest in trying.

I got on the machine and started to run, well, wanting to run though. However, it was kind of hard and my friend told me to tune up the speed. Then I figured that the conveyor belt was moving too slow and since I was walking faster than it, I was actually pulling it rather than it helped pushed me. So I tuned the speed up slowly, and picking up my running pace slowly too. The higher the speed, the smoother I ran, and the lighter I felt. Imagine running while flying, wouldn’t it be light? Well, it felt something like that.

I ran for ten minutes then slowed down and eventually stopped. Though only for ten minutes, the effect was obvious. Though the running was light and easy, but when I stopped, I could feel the tiredness and the strain and my heart was beating real fast and hard as if I had been running for half and hour.

Then, eventually I realized that though I didn’t feel tired at the time of running, I was actually using up more energy than I expected. The machine helped to start off the workout slowly then pick up pace then slowed down slowly, which is the typical way of doing workout where one start off with warm up activity then ends with cooling down exercise. Once starting to run, one has to complete all three stages for the whole workout to come to an end. In addition, while running, I only thought of stopping when I really felt the tiredness. Thus, unconsciously I had run more and used more energy than I normally would when jogging in the park.

For an amateur jogger like me, an electric treadmill would definitely help in my workout as I don’t get to do running simply but doing in stages. In addition, I wouldn’t have much excuse to not commit to jogging once I own one at home.

Recommended Electric Treadmills:

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One Response to “Electric Treadmill vs Outdoor Running”

  1. Nick on July 3rd, 2009 8:40 pm

    Everything dynamic and very positively! :)

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