What keeps you on the treadmill?

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  • shakemybooty
    shakemybooty Posts: 681 Member
    I can't hear anything my kids are yelling at me from the top of the stairs when I'm on the treadmill. That keeps me on there!!
  • california_peach
    california_peach Posts: 1,809 Member
    Once I started having to run outside for my long runs I can't get back on the dreadmill. Anything longer than 10 minutes on that thing and I want to shoot myself in the face.
    If I'm running, I'm running outdoors I don't think there's anything that could get me to run for too long on it. On the flipside I don't even feel the need listen to music when I run outdoors.

    Same here. I loathe the treadmill. It is mind numbing boring compared to running outside. I do workout on an elliptical or a stairmaster when I don't run outside. With the elliptical I just watch the TVs at the gym. With the stairmaster I hold on for dear life and keep moving lest I fall off and die.
  • JJinWI
    JJinWI Posts: 197 Member
    I tried reading on the treadmill, but just can't do it.

    Like everyone else, music keeps me going and so does tv. I love that the gym I go to has tvs on all of the cardio equipment. Oh, and it helps that there are giant glass windows to look out onto the street to watch the world go by.

    A mental trick that keeps me going is thinking to myself how great that post-workout shower will feel after a long, sweaty workout.
  • SarabellPlus3
    SarabellPlus3 Posts: 496 Member
    It's funny that people have said they aren't working hard enough if they are capable of reading... I can't keep up a conversation, that's for sure (& I thought that was the gage we were to roughly use), but reading isn't more difficult than watching TV (at least for me). LOL A little more brainpower, I guess, but no more body power than watching a rerun.
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member
    Gravity.
  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    I STILL haven't found something that keeps me on the treadmill! I find I can run farther and faster outside than on the "dreadmill" any day! Today for example (it's raining here), I was on the treadmill for 30 minutes with my fav music AND the TV on and all I could do was look at the numbers to see what my pace was, how many more minutes I had, how many calories I was burning...it was making me crazy! I do much much much better when I can be outside, listening to my music, and enjoying my surroundings. Anyone else feel this way? I've gotta get a sweatproof/waterproof case for my iphone, or I'm never gonna make it through on the crappy rainy days!!
    -Andi

    Same for me BUT I've been on the treadmill lately trying to work on my speed. I always have music blasting, and I like to watch the guys lifting weights, and if that fails then I imagine I'm outside running. I can't read or look at anything close up bc of motion sickness :(
  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    Gravity.

    That's just a theory.
  • its_betty
    its_betty Posts: 104 Member
    I love to listen to podcasts. I especially like This American Life, RadioLab, and The Moth. Getting drawn into a well-told story (fiction or non) keeps me going. Sometimes I even go longer than I planned because I have to hear the end of the story.

    Treadmill: bleah. I walk/run outside whenever possible.
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    I STILL haven't found something that keeps me on the treadmill! I find I can run farther and faster outside than on the "dreadmill" any day! Today for example (it's raining here), I was on the treadmill for 30 minutes with my fav music AND the TV on and all I could do was look at the numbers to see what my pace was, how many more minutes I had, how many calories I was burning...it was making me crazy! I do much much much better when I can be outside, listening to my music, and enjoying my surroundings. Anyone else feel this way? I've gotta get a sweatproof/waterproof case for my iphone, or I'm never gonna make it through on the crappy rainy days!!
    -Andi

    Same here. I had to run on the treadmill today and I was pretty sure I was going to die.
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member
    Gravity.

    That's just a theory.

    it's the LAW!
  • scraver2003
    scraver2003 Posts: 526 Member
    willpower and music.

    ^^This for me, too!
  • UrbanRunner81
    UrbanRunner81 Posts: 1,207 Member
    I am going to try using my kindle next time.
    But usually I just watch TV. I much rather be outside though ;)
  • scraver2003
    scraver2003 Posts: 526 Member
    Oh - AND I like doing intervals... for some reason, when I am only focused on a minute or two or three at a time - my time on the TM really whizzes by.
  • KBoddu
    KBoddu Posts: 237 Member
    Netflix instant tv shows on my iPad. I've already finished Drop Dead Diva and now I'm on King of the Hill! =D
  • Iceskatefanrn
    Iceskatefanrn Posts: 489 Member
    This would do it for me!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEH4Yum4nN4&feature=youtu.be

    :drinker:

    Ice
  • purpledelight
    purpledelight Posts: 134 Member
    When I am at my local gym... everything! Will power, music, TV, conversation....but when I travel for work (which is pretty frequently) it is my second husband, my Kindle that helps me along! I set it up on the treadmill and pick a speed and I am gone! My mind devours the story and I don't even know the time is ticking by... it is SO hard for me to get motivated to work out when I stuck in a hotel somewhere and reading is my one constant. I wear progressive lenses so the being able to enlarge the type makes it easy since I don't run with my glasses on!
  • moonshadows72
    moonshadows72 Posts: 180 Member
    Imagining one of those hot beefed up dudes who is lifting weights is watching me counting the minutes I can run for.

    I am clearly insane.

    you know, a lot of the time, your right... although maybe not counting so much...
  • Pangea250
    Pangea250 Posts: 965 Member
    My music and the fact the cardio room faces the mountains.

    I don't see how people can read and workout. I'm going at it 100% and don't see how its possible.
    I completely agree with this. I guess if I were walking, then I could read on the treadmill. But if I'm on the treadmill, which is not my favorite thing, I'm making it some quality time. I'm pushing it.
  • QueenyJ
    QueenyJ Posts: 1
    Young and the Restless One Hour Monday through Friday... If I miss my scheduled cycling class.
  • DizzyLinds
    DizzyLinds Posts: 856 Member
    Music.
    Watching the beefed up guys lifting weights.
    Size 6 jeans.
    Victoria's Secret Holiday catolog.
    Screaming keep going you fatty in my head.
    Imagining one of those hot beefed up dudes who is lifting weights is watching me counting the minutes I can run for.

    I am clearly insane.

    generally agree with all of the above!!!!!
  • bluebutterflyzz
    bluebutterflyzz Posts: 41 Member
    I don't agree with the posters that said you're not working hard enough if you're reading while you're on the treadmill. I know with the kindle or nook (which is what I have), in order to keep reading while running I just have to make the font much bigger so I can read while running hard. It was the only thing that got me through C25K but now I think I can only run outdoors cause I loooooooathe the treadmills at the gym.
  • mrdee555
    mrdee555 Posts: 178
    the tunes:)
  • mrdee555
    mrdee555 Posts: 178
    Music.
    Watching the beefed up guys lifting weights.
    Size 6 jeans.
    Victoria's Secret Holiday catolog.
    Screaming keep going you fatty in my head.
    Imagining one of those hot beefed up dudes who is lifting weights is watching me counting the minutes I can run for.

    I am clearly insane.

    lol:)
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Sadly, sometimes nothing keeps me on there. I'm very uncoordinated and frequently fell off when trying to run or do a fast walk on the treadmill. So I sold it.
  • HOSED49
    HOSED49 Posts: 642 Member
    i have set distances /goals everyday, music so i dont hear my breathing
  • rybo
    rybo Posts: 5,424 Member
    I love to run, but to get me on a treadmill these days is gonna take a gun pointed at me.
    And after about 5 minutes I'd just tell them to pull the trigger. ;)
  • Adrenaline_Queen
    Adrenaline_Queen Posts: 626 Member
    I have tried and tried to stay on the treadmill, I have ran 2 halfs and have another in March 2012, but I never seem to run before the event... I try, but the longest I have been on a treadmill is about 10 mins... I manage longer on the cross trainer...........

    I just warm up on the treadmill, then jump on the cross trainer, 30 seconds to kill myself then 1min recovery, do this for as long as I can, then jump off and hit the weights... I only do weights for about 20 mins, maybe longer as I still dont know 100% what I am doing just yet....

    I find the treadmills so boring......... I have had friends who are personal trainers, with me, but for some reason I dont like them...

    I do enjoy running outside, with friends, but alone, I find it boring... I just find running boring, I just like the feeling after a half, when my brain in feeling weird and I am on a high, so I book another half.. LOL xxxxxxxxx I would love to get that high from a treadmill, I have tried, but get soooooooooooo board...

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thought I might get some tips from this forum...................... xx
  • Tammylyn117
    Tammylyn117 Posts: 44
    Moving my legs so I don't fall on my *kitten*.

    ...erm...sorry...

    Could you please repeat the question?

    LoL Too funny!
  • Shock_Wave
    Shock_Wave Posts: 1,573 Member
    For me I use the R. bike and I just watch tv because with out some thing to do cardio is sooooo boring but it goes by fast for me when I am watching a program or movie.
  • atsteele
    atsteele Posts: 1,358 Member
    I love to run, but to get me on a treadmill these days is gonna take a gun pointed at me.
    And after about 5 minutes I'd just tell them to pull the trigger. ;)

    I'm with you!! Just shoot me!! (...only that would be the easy way out.)
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