Treadmill Minutes
strowco
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Any tips to make a treadmill minute go faster? Music just ain't cutting it!
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Why not run outside instead?0
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Yeah that would definitely help but I train late at night and don't want to be running around the streets on my own in the dark with headphones in. Good tip though and on weekend I will give it a whirl.0
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At home? I have mine set up in front of Netflix and the minutes fly by!0
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Do you have an option of doing another sort of cardio you enjoy?0
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Intervals. That's the only way I can stay on a treadmill. Somehow, counting down the minutes/seconds until the next one keeps me occupied enough. TV and music just don't cut it.
The options are endless, short, harder intervals mixed with longer slower ones. Or a pyramid. Google treadmill workouts and you'll get tons of ideas or do your own thing.0 -
Yeah that would definitely help but I train late at night and don't want to be running around the streets on my own in the dark with headphones in. Good tip though and on weekend I will give it a whirl.
I understand what you mean.
I guess if there's an option to watch TV on the treadmill? I know the ones at my gym have that option and quite a few people do it.
Perhaps another type of cardio? Swimming?0 -
Treadmill - I like watching YouTube music videos on my tablet. It gives my eyes something to do, not just my ears. Watching TV/movies is very popular, but it just makes the time drag on for me. I prefer to semi-zone out, which the music/music videos allow.0
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Zombies, Run? ( https://zombiesrungame.com/ )
There's also another game(?) produced by the same company about walking across the UK.0 -
If I'm running in the gym I watch netflix. The most action packed movie I can find. The more intense, the more I lose myself in the movie, then suddenly 10 mins has passed and I've almost forgot I'm running.0
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buttonblue wrote: »Zombies, Run? ( https://zombiesrungame.com/ )
There's also another game(?) produced by the same company about walking across the UK.
I'm totally going to look into this.0 -
+1 for netflix, or some other type of audio/visual stimulus. No tv=no gym.0
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Find a podcast or audiobook you love? That or netflix makes the time pass quickly for me. Either that or just listen to nothing but the soundtrack to Pacific Rim and then you'll be like AWW YISS LETS GET IN OUR GIANT ROBOTS AND GO DEFEAT THESE OCEAN MONSTERS FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION.0
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I watch subtitled anime. The reading keeps me from focusing on the timer- if I watch a show in English I'm constantly looking to see how much longer I have to go and it becomes a hideous form of self torture.0
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I've got the same problem!0
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At the very least you can break up your monotony by running outdoors on weekends. Quite honestly if I could only run indoors... I probably wouldn't. I run in every season, day or night, rainy or nice, outside. Preferably on a trail. Even then I find running in the same place can get monotonous so I'm always mixing it up.
Movies... maybe that might work. But I'm not going to try it!
PS: When I started running again I ran with music. I almost never do that now, preferring to hear my footfalls, traffic, and anything else out there. Plus I talk to my dog. She sometimes talks back.0 -
Netflix: Murder mysteries0
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Any tips to make a treadmill minute go faster? Music just ain't cutting it!
I throw the towel over the clock on my treadmill, stare at the same spot on the wall and do my best to think about other things along with my music. It helps, but truth is walking in the same spot is just boring.0 -
Read a book. Make it a classic!0
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TV!
I actually have a treadmill desk. I do most of my work while walking. But I think other people are more coordinated or better able to focus than I am because they can read and type at higher speeds.0 -
Intervals are the only thing that help me make it through a treadmill run as well. I dread running on the treadmill and avoid it whenever possible. But if I need to do a treadmill run I try to make it my interval run. If I have to do a steady pace run, I will play with the speed just a bit, like increase it one increment every 30 second until the end of the song I am on and then decrease it back down through the next song or something like that. I have to invent stupid little games to mentally get me through it.0
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Put your food in the microwave? Haha... Microwave minutes are longer aren't they?
I have to cover the timer on the cardio equipment or time seems to go forever. I try and watch a TV program the length of my session so that I can stop when it's done0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »Intervals. That's the only way I can stay on a treadmill. Somehow, counting down the minutes/seconds until the next one keeps me occupied enough. TV and music just don't cut it.
The options are endless, short, harder intervals mixed with longer slower ones. Or a pyramid. Google treadmill workouts and you'll get tons of ideas or do your own thing.
This is so true for me. If I'm not doing intervals, I'm watching the timer anyway but it never seems to get anywhere. With intervals, it's pretty easy for me to tell myself "Just 30 more seconds" or "I can do this for 2 minutes!".
Yay for Intervals!
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I like to run outside at 5:00 AM in the morning. Its cooler and I think its safer because all the crazy people have finally gone to bed at that hour. Traffic is very light too.0
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I have a little TV hooked to the front of mine, I watch action movies. I outrun several decepticons a day.
ETA: lots of reasons to run on a treadmill "instead of outside" mine is that while I do run at 5am, it is while my four kids sleep, not really down with leaving them all alone while I plug in my iPod and enjoy the fresh air!0 -
I break my treadmill workout into intervals - either hills (incline for 5 minutes, then decline for 5 minutes) or HIIT. That helps make a 30 minute workout (or hour) into six (or 12) 5 minute workouts.
While I'm doing that, depending on how hard I'm working, I either listen to music playlists (for harder workouts where I can't really concentrate) or Audiobooks (for easier, pure cardio workouts).0 -
I hate running on the treadmill and much prefer outside but sometimes needs must. I do intervals on the treadmill BUT instead of watching the timer I use the music im listening to to dictate the pace so during the song I run at my normal steady pace and then when it hits the chorus I up the speed for and lower it again when the verse kicks in - it goes real quick!0
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I like the netflix idea. I had no idea people watched tv while on a treadmill...shows how much exercise I get! lol. Does anyone have cordless headphones for working out...?0
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If it's a long, steady run, I have the tv on, but on a show I don't have to pay a lot of attention to. Faster (yet shorter) runs, I really can't pay attention to the tv. I don't even listen to music (can't stand ear buds when i sweat). I sometimes count my steps...take me a little under 200 steps to cover a tenth of a mile. It's rhythmic and kind of soothing.0
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