Treadmill

It's just everything is in one place and it's sort of like, you know, it's in a good place, guys.

I believe that if you've never used the treadmill training and maybe you live in areas where it's really hot outside, think about it think about how much improvement you can make if you were actually to do some of your workouts on a treadmill when it's really miserable outside and and that alone makes me think that you know i need to be able to maybe if not go to the gym at some point maybe purchase a treadmill because it's something that it's just so useful that can you know you can do a like even if you sometimes wake up really early and maybe you can't go outside or you come from work and you can't go outside because it's too dark well by having a treadmill you just eliminate all the problems that you can possibly have you know you can just get on it and what's your excuse it's just right in your home all you got to do is push the on button and here you are going and putting in your mileage so i do think that treadmill is a wonderful tool If used correctly, there are a lot of good treadmills and maybe one one time we should talk about about you know which treadmills are good and I could probably ask all the people that I coach because a lot of them have treadmills and it would be really cool to actually talk about like which treadmills are the best and for who you know if you you know depending on how fast you're trying to go on a treadmill and things like that but I think there are really good treadmills nowadays and it's not like those days where it was extremely expensive I think that you can find pretty decent treadmill anywhere from like i don't know probably from anywhere looking from like two to three thousand all the way up to like ten thousand right to the best of the best treadmills woodways and things like that so but anyway guys thank you so much for listening to this episode and again i hope that you uh take time and incorporate treadmills into your training doing a strategic way uh you know especially if you're trying to improve some mechanics treadmill is a great way if you find yourself quite like having that really low cadence in races and runs.

Treadmill can really bridge that gap and get you back off by shortening a little bit of your stride, but also making sure that your cadence becomes a little bit more higher and when the cadence becomes higher you're more likely to become a little bit less tired longer in the race and able to replicate that pace without you know slowing down because a lot of times you really gotta have a power if you are that kind of like you know 170 to 180 uh per cadence um strength runner i call it which i am kind of like sometimes that 180 is really always my in races I would prefer to get closer to 185 because it really requires a lot of strength so when things get tired you know you still got to maintain that 180 cadence even later in the races versus if you have a lower cadence if you can go like not like like I mean higher if you can go 185 190 you become a little bit more efficient and you're coming off the ground a lot quicker and you're able to do the effort that you need without slowing down.

So there's a lot of benefits that I think we can also talk about in some of the next episodes.

So thank you so much, guys.

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I'm surprised like Treadmill is on this list or like Peloton.

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Something like that.

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and the way that I think that's relevant, and I draw back personal experience on this, is that I think this is a place I used to suck and I got much better because of the uphill treadmill.

Because when I did these long uphill treadmill sessions, you're really required to have quick form, quick feet, like that's what's rewarded.

And so just to complete them, especially the long zone two sessions, I would find that I just got better, got lighter on my feet.

And so if you look back at those documentaries, you can really see that while I might be moving pretty slow, I'm light on my feet all the way to the finish line.

This is a power that is reserved for forces of nature.

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So I think... duty factor and how to think about it is light on feet i think that you can develop this over and over um but it really requires you know the some strength work probably matters but i think a lot of it is just re-emphasizing and i think uphill treadmill is was the tool for me to click this into like into gear but how much of fatigue resistance is just a mechanical variable that relates to form That's an open question.

Morning runs or evening runs? Morning runs.

Treadmill runs or absolutely not? Treadmill runs.

Garmin or Coros? Coros.

What's harder, running 100 miler or writing a book? Writing a book.

And I think this just came to your personal bias that you hated the treadmill from the beginning.

I remember going to the Duke student gym together and you got on the treadmill for about 35 seconds and you're like, oh, oh.

And maybe it's because those were not great treadmills.

You didn't like the rattling and the shaking and all the different things happening on the treadmill, which is very fair.

But now that we have a good treadmill, I think it's transformed your vision of what the treadmill is.

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Is there a challenge in treadmill workouts that are not done on a good treadmill? Because that is our bias now as we're running on an amazing treadmill.

And is the smoothness and the speed of that, does that actually pare down to treadmills that are not good?

Maybe just go jog easy for a week.

Do you understand you will not lose fitness if you're active for a week on your honeymoon, or you're active for, uh, a week when you have a work trip in Anchorage? You're gonna be okay, right? Treadmills.

One of the things that you need to remember is that you need to put it on a, a 1% uphill grade to essentially mimic running on flat outdoors.

There seem to be some debate on that for some people.

I think it's so good, and we have other examples of this, led by Mikaël Bourdon-Rosseau, who just won the World Cup uphill, um, to end the season, which is a remarkable performance.

He did that all, 100% of that training, on the elliptical and on uphill treadmill.

Zero flat-ground running.

And, you know, he had one of the best climbing performances of all time, and by doing uphill treadmill, I'm not saying he's doing this six times a week, he's doing uphill treadmill three times per week, and the rest of the time is on his ElliptiGO, which is very similar to an elliptical.

He's had a chronic knee issue, and so it's forced him to do this cross-training.

Also, side note, did you know that he hits, like, 50 miles an hour on his ElliptiGO?

So, it's, it's really cool.

But it's inspiring also from the perspective of, like, you know, he's had these chronic knee issues.

The, which is why I do it, but I'm a, I'm a treadmill runner these days.

Same.

I used to run outside, but Treadmill is the way for me now

I used to be in a 5K relationship.

I, we, we, I was in a, the 5- we were a 5K couple.

He's in shape right now.

Treadmill, walking to Mordor.

Let's see.

Give me a shot, give me a shot of him.

I think he's just, he's just really good.

So he's in there, and he's just pounding away on the treadmill.

Pounding away, like people do in Planet Fitness apparently.

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And so you never wanna put pressure on somebody, but he is doing things that no one has ever done before, to my knowledge.

Maybe CJ Albertson did a little bit.

But one workout day, he did 45 miles on the treadmill.

Um, I think he did two by 50 minutes, and then s- in the morning, and then four by 20 minutes, all...