treadmill inclines

Quoted message said:

Hi, I run regularly on the treadmill at a gradient of 0 at a speed of
roughly 9MPH for a distance of 2miles (currently). The other day a guy
from my gym told me to put an incline on or I will do myself a knee
injury.

Is there any truth in what he says? I have run on treadmill for years
and have always run at no incline. I have never suffered any
significant injury but wonder if I have just been lucky.

Then don't worry about it. There is some thought that the lack of air
resistance on a tm makes it "easier" so you have to increase the incline
to make it like outdoors, but then you've got a slightly different
biomechanic effect. Many people will use 1-2% inclines for this reason,
and there is less impact on legs, but there's also more resistance for
your running.

Quoted message said:

If an incline is best for treadmill running what is the recommended
incline?

The few times I use a tm in class or after, I use the incline that works
best for the workout I'm doing - from -3% up to 15%. For "just running",
I'll leave it at 0%, but might put it up a little big to reduce impact.

Many tm probably aren't calibrated accurately enough to really worry
about inclines and speeds - just do what works for your goals.

If you're looking at increasing the distance you run and you're getting
out of breath on your present runs (looks like they're less than 14
min), you might slow the tm down. OTOH, if you have a 15 to 20-min time
limit on tm at gym, you're kinda stuck unless you change machines, run
to the gym or whatever.

Dot

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"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I
have of it."
-Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States

Dot dot.h@#duh?att.net said:

Quoted message said:

Hi, I run regularly on the treadmill at a gradient of 0 at a speed of
roughly 9MPH for a distance of 2miles (currently). The other day a guy
from my gym told me to put an incline on or I will do myself a knee
injury.

Quoted message said:

Is there any truth in what he says? I have run on treadmill for years
and have always run at no incline. I have never suffered any
significant injury but wonder if I have just been lucky.

Then don't worry about it. There is some thought that the lack of air
resistance on a tm makes it "easier" so you have to increase the incline
to make it like outdoors, but then you've got a slightly different
biomechanic effect. Many people will use 1-2% inclines for this reason,
and there is less impact on legs, but there's also more resistance for
your running.

Quoted message said:

If an incline is best for treadmill running what is the recommended
incline?

The few times I use a tm in class or after, I use the incline that works
best for the workout I'm doing - from -3% up to 15%. For "just running",
I'll leave it at 0%, but might put it up a little big to reduce impact.

Many tm probably aren't calibrated accurately enough to really worry
about inclines and speeds - just do what works for your goals.

If you're looking at increasing the distance you run and you're getting
out of breath on your present runs (looks like they're less than 14
min), you might slow the tm down. OTOH, if you have a 15 to 20-min time
limit on tm at gym, you're kinda stuck unless you change machines, run
to the gym or whatever.

Dot

--
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I
have of it."
-Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States

Thanks Dot. Well all my times previously on treadmill have been on 0%
incline so I prefer to keep to keep as near a possible the same
conditions and then use previous runs as targets to aim for. So yes I
think I will stick to 0%. I will increase my distances also but at the
moment just increasing the speed to similar to what I used to run a
couple of years ago.

Also I did hear from someone else that when you run against an incline
you exercise slightly different muscels to those when running
outside.

colmkav said:

Dot dot.h@#duh?att.net said:

Quoted message said:

Hi, I run regularly on the treadmill at a gradient of 0 at a speed of
roughly 9MPH for a distance of 2miles (currently). The other day a guy
from my gym told me to put an incline on or I will do myself a knee
injury.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Is there any truth in what he says? I have run on treadmill for years
and have always run at no incline. I have never suffered any
significant injury but wonder if I have just been lucky.

Quoted message said:

Then don't worry about it. There is some thought that the lack of air
resistance on a tm makes it "easier" so you have to increase the incline
to make it like outdoors, but then you've got a slightly different
biomechanic effect. Many people will use 1-2% inclines for this reason,
and there is less impact on legs, but there's also more resistance for
your running.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

If an incline is best for treadmill running what is the recommended
incline?

Quoted message said:

The few times I use a tm in class or after, I use the incline that works
best for the workout I'm doing - from -3% up to 15%. For "just running",
I'll leave it at 0%, but might put it up a little big to reduce impact.

Quoted message said:

Many tm probably aren't calibrated accurately enough to really worry
about inclines and speeds - just do what works for your goals.

Quoted message said:

If you're looking at increasing the distance you run and you're getting
out of breath on your present runs (looks like they're less than 14
min), you might slow the tm down. OTOH, if you have a 15 to 20-min time
limit on tm at gym, you're kinda stuck unless you change machines, run
to the gym or whatever.

Quoted message said:

Dot

Quoted message said:

--
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I
have of it."
-Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States

Thanks Dot.

Did you get a BJ too? Most everyone here has had her.

Quoted message said:

Hi, I run regularly on the treadmill at a gradient of 0 at a speed of
roughly 9MPH for a distance of 2miles (currently). The other day a guy
from my gym told me to put an incline on or I will do myself a knee
injury.

Is there any truth in what he says? I have run on treadmill for years
and have always run at no incline. I have never suffered any
significant injury but wonder if I have just been lucky.

If an incline is best for treadmill running what is the recommended
incline?

your thoughts very much appreciated.

Colm.

You will find if you put the treadmill on an incline and continue the
same speed you are walking/running your heart rate will go up. If you
know your target heart rate keep inclining little by little until you
hit your target heart rate and then you will know the best level for
you.

I just recently started walking at an incline and typically I run 3 to
5 miles a day flat. I found that I burn more calories and get my
heart rate faster, quicker by walking half the speed on an incline.

Matt
http://www.recreationease.com

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Quoted message said:

If an incline is best for treadmill running what is the recommended
incline?

Good morning,

I've done most of my mid-week, after work winter running on a tread
for several years. I've never heard of a 0% incline causing any
problems, altho I find it an uncomfortable run. I run at an incline of
2%, which I feel to be more like running on a level surface.

I'd say: whatever works

Richard

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colmkav said:

If you had half a brain cell you would realise that Colm is not a
British name.

You are responding to a troll. All he's trying to do is get you upset.
Ignore him.

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Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

Michelle said:

You are responding to a troll. All he's trying to do is get you upset.
Ignore him.

--
Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

OMG this is TOO funny. This "Michelle" is actually a "Michael", a
transsexual whose been trolling this NG with ridiculous claims, and
most of the NG is falling for it. His one mistake was posting an
outrageous pic of an obviously computer generated dumb looking person,
saying it was her/him. Check the archives Colonelm.

Michelle said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

colmkav said:

If you had half a brain cell you would realise that Colm is not a
British name.

You are responding to a troll. All he's trying to do is get you upset.
Ignore him.

--
Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

yeah i know. Wasnt remotely bothered.

Should be a way of blocking these idiots though. Prefer not to have to
read through these before I get to a useful response.

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colmkav said:

Should be a way of blocking these idiots though. Prefer not to have
to read through these before I get to a useful response.

Start using a newsreader that has filters or kill files. I don't see
any of his messsages, and if people didn't respond to him, I wouldn't
even know that he was posting anything.

--
Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

OMG this is TOO funny. This "Michelle" is actually a "Michael", a
transsexual whose been trolling this NG with ridiculous claims, and most
of the NG is falling for it. His one mistake was posting an outrageous pic
of an obviously computer generated dumb looking person, saying it was
her/him. Check the archives Colonelm.

--
Ignorint [censored]-off Man

Michelle said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

colmkav said:

Should be a way of blocking these idiots though. Prefer not to have
to read through these before I get to a useful response.

Start using a newsreader that has filters or kill files. I don't see
any of his messsages, and if people didn't respond to him, I wouldn't
even know that he was posting anything.

--
Crossing the starting line is 90%.
Crossing the finish line is the other 90%.

She/he is a liar. It reads every post, because it's newsreader doesn't
filter.