Monday, January 16, 2012

Treadmill Workouts

I am weird.  I like running on treadmills.  I have what I call a 'bounce problem' and prefer to keep it indoors ha.  Plus, I don't run in the cold, yet.  And, my available run times are late at night and I am not going outside where animals can run out and get me just to run.

So yeah, I like to use the treadmill.  I keep it 'new and fresh' by trying different work outs.  I run, I walk, I jog, I do a mix.  Right now I am loosely following through a 5 week to 5k plan I found in Shape Magazine from October? I think.  I am way behind my magazine reading

Anywhoo, I am preparing for a 29 day February Challenge of using my treadmill EVERY DAY.  Now, I know better than to run every day and walking can get a little boring so here is where I am asking for some help.

What are you favorite treadmill workouts? I use the preset ones, I find some from people's blogs but now that I am trying to put together a good mix of them before I start this in Feb.  I'd like some help from those of you out there who also don't like being bored on treadmills. 

Here is one that I am going to do tonight, and I apologize if I stole this from your blog, I apparently didn't write where I got it from, but it was saved in a Word file I found this weekend.


Treadmill Workout – 40 minute
  • 0:00 – 4:59      5.0
  • 5:00 – 9:59      5.5
  • 10:00 – 12:00  7.3
  • 12:00 – 14:00  5.3
  • 14:00 – 16:00  7.3
  • 16:00 – 18:00  5.3
  • 18:00 – 20:00  7.5
  • 20:00 – 22:00  5.5
  • 22:00 – 26:00  7.5
  • 26:00 – 28:00  5.5
  • 28:00 – 29:00  8.0
  • 29:00 – 30:00  5.0
  • 30:00 – 40:00  3.5 (5% incline)
Are you taking part in any physical challenges?

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