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Treadmill effort

  • 13-09-2013 1:29pm
    #1
    thewolf_ie
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    I've used treadmills the odd time for nothing more then 12k. Each time I had my heart rate strap and for the effort level displayed on the watch I was not covering the same distance as I would on the road. E.g. I was hitting 80-90% effort to cover 8 k in 44 min. I'd cover 10k on the road with the same effort in less time. There was an incline of 1 on the treadmill. I think I'll write them off as duration and effort rather then distance and effort. Any thoughts.


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  • #2
    tunguska
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    thewolf_ie wrote: »
    I've used treadmills the odd time for nothing more then 12k. Each time I had my heart rate strap and for the effort level displayed on the watch I was not covering the same distance as I would on the road. E.g. I was hitting 80-90% effort to cover 8 k in 44 min. I'd cover 10k on the road with the same effort in less time. There was an incline of 1 on the treadmill. I think I'll write them off as duration and effort rather then distance and effort. Any thoughts.

    Yeah I think the best thing to do on the treadmill is to work in terms of duration and effort as opposed to distance. Thats what I do myself anyway and I find distance is pretty irrelevant. I think the treadmill is best for long intervals like 15+ minute segments with a couple of minutes easy between, e.g. 4 x 15min hard with 3 mins easy between each 15 min segment.


  • #3
    thewolf_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭thewolf_ie


    tunguska wrote: »
    Yeah I think the best thing to do on the treadmill is to work in terms of duration and effort as opposed to distance. Thats what I do myself anyway and I find distance is pretty irrelevant. I think the treadmill is best for long intervals like 15+ minute segments with a couple of minutes easy between, e.g. 4 x 15min hard with 3 mins easy between each 15 min segment.

    I done 44 minutes at 80-91% last 20 mins was the upper end. I am writing that off as a tune up race that I had scheduled. The P&D plan said 8-15k race effort that can be it!


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