And the truth of the whole matter is just getting on the darn thing and walking will get you in better shape than doing nothing. Even if the surface is flat. Not many tread mills are flat to begin with but if the stock setting is easy to walk on just speed it up and see how that makes you feel.
Over the years I've been involved in a number of different training programs. The most effective one I've found is not where you get on a tread mill or run on an open road for miles and miles. That just makes the heart smaller in the end. If you want to train the heart and get in better shape, change the pace as you go. Not many people will spend their life running a couple miles to get from here to there. But, you will spend time going up and down stairs, up or down hills and so on. So the trick is to train your heart to be efficient in recovering from what you will do. Walk for a couple minutes and then speed it up for a number of seconds. Keep repeating that for 20 minutes and see how you feel. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] tread mill incline Sorry, I sent before I finished my message. To show that 14% slope is more or less low enough for the calculation to be accurate I did the actual trig. For a 60 inch treadmill, at a 14% slope, that is an 8 degree angle. At that angle, the rise is 8.35 degrees, and the run is 59.4 degrees with the hypotenuse of the 60 inch long treadmill. So, essentially, for these small angles, folks are correct, all you really have to do is multiply the percent slope times the length of the treadmill, but know that this will become pretty inaccurate as the angle increases. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
