October 25, 2021

What You Need To Know - Treadmill vs Outdoor Running

22 minutes

You're going to want to listen in ladies. I’m going to share with you:

✨2 MUST DO's to altering your treadmill at home/at the gym to make sure your running is just as effective as you transition inside

👍The big pros to running on a treadmill and the many pros of outdoor running you probably haven't considered yet!

Maybe you have or haven't considered why you'd want to get on a treadmill yet...

Post COVID returning to gym, you’re paying for your membership, includes treadmills, why not!

Baby it's getting cold outside, you may have gotten into running & this is your first winter season.

Working from home and you don't want to drive far just to get your runs in.

Winter solstice, shorter days leave questions for our safety when running into autumn.

Wanting to be more efficient with your time if you’re increasing your running distances/goals and are putting in more mileage.

Regardless of you being here you’re going to leave feeling more educated than when you came into this podcast and ay be making better and different decisions when picking to hop on the treadmill and when to get outside for your run.

Studies support:

VO2 max (measure of maximal aerobic capacity) is the same when running on a treadmill compared to outside. So running on a treadmill is as effective as running outside.

Bio-mechanical patterns did not change when test subjects ran on a treadmill versus when subjects ran outside. So we know that… so long as we’re thinking about our for and not distracted by the TV on the treadmill or the birds when running through the park form is not an issue.

If you run at the same pace on a treadmill as you do outside, you will generally expend more energy running outdoors. As the belt is doing more of the “work” so outdoor running is metabolically more challenging. We must alter 2 things to make up for this!

Example of increasing velocity (pace, speed) from the podcast:

Say you run outside 3km in 0.5hour = 6km/h (is your average split)

0.15 (15%) x 6 = 0.9km/h (is 15% of youraveraee pace)

0.9 dded to your pace of 6km/hour = 6.9km/hr (which is 15% faster than outside pace that you use on the treadmill).

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