So your running or walking on the treadmill trying to get your daily cardio in and it feels like you’ve been running in place for at least thirty minutes, so you check the clock, and it’s only been 5 minutes. Ugh! You want to get your cardio in but your bored to tears. You know your going to feel amazing once your cardio session is complete and you love how tight your muscles feel once you hop off.
Try adding in some Sprints
Whether you typically walk on your treadmill or run, following your warm up, sprint for 30 to 60 seconds then resume to your walk or run. This helps to mix it up plus it will speed up your heart rate torching even more calories then just your steady walk or run.
Use the Incline Option
Utilize that incline option, it is there for a reason. After warming up for 5 to 10 minutes adjust the incline at least half way for 5 minutes, then go back to where you started (for me that is 2%). Walk or run for another 5 minutes, then incline for another 5 minutes increasing your incline percentage each time until you’ve done at least 30 minutes.
As a good rule of thumb, if you don’t want to watch the clock every 5 minutes use your playlist as a guide because I know your listening to music. Each song is typically 3-5 minutes long so switch it up after each song ends.
Walk, Run, Incline
Try incorporating all three. First, warm-up with walking. Second, run for 5 minutes. Third, Incline for 5 minutes. Then resume to walk for 5 minutes after lowering the incline and repeat. You are adjusting the incline so that is somewhat distracting you and making the time fly by just a little bit faster. You are also going to be adjusting your speed. 1- Walk (fast) 2- Run (at a comfortable speed for you) 3-Incline (at a little slower pace). You can use the song method for this treadmill sequence.
Slowly Increase Your Speed
Start out walking at a comfortable pace for your warm up. Once you’ve completed your warm up increase that pace about every two minutes until you are walking at a very fast pace. Then begin to increase to a slow jog increasing until you get to a decent pace run. Then cool down.
Sprint Intervals for the More Advanced
Always start with your warm up. Run at a comfortable pace for 2 minutes, then sprint for 1 minute returning to your comfortable run pace for 2 minutes and so on. Do this about 5 times and it will definitely make your treadmill session go by faster. You will be torching calories, speeding up your metabolism, and increasing your running speed.
For each treadmill sequence always warm up and cool down (5-10 minutes for each) and put in at least 30 minutes.
Put in 60 minutes when you can and always wear comfortable shoes. These New Balance are my fav!
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