Ten reasons to really appreciate your treadmill this winter

Stuck inside during the cold winter months? It's not as bad as you think for people who have a treadmill to exercise on. Here are 10 reasons to really

Chandra Jones Fitness Training: September 2010

Stuck inside during the cold winter months?
It's not as bad as you think for people who have a treadmill to exercise on.
Here are 10 reasons to really appreciate your treadmill - and avoid developing a case of cabin fever.

1. Let it snow, let is snow, let it snow - It's OK because people who have a treadmill can get great workouts in in the comfort of their own home year-round.
2. Control your climate - It may be 10 degrees, snowing, icy and extremely windy outside, but that hardly matters to you inside on your treadmill. Control the climate with a turn of the thermostat.
3. Wear what you want - There's no more worrying about layering to beat the cold and lots of laundry after running outdoors in the winter. Where what you want to on the comfort of your own treadmill.
4. Run when you want to - With a treadmill, it's go time anytime you want. There's no more trying to rush to get your run completed before daylight is gone.
5. Give the babysitter the afternoon off - If you have a treadmill in your house, pop the kids down with some games and books while you get your workout in. You don't have to find someone to watch the kids, or worse yet try to push a 40-pound stroller.
6. Be sure of your pace - With the treadmill, you can program it for exactly the workout you want. Then your feet have no choice but to keep pace with the belt.
7. Hills when you want them - If you want hills, the treadmill can give them to you. As early and often as you like. Set the incline however you want it.
8. Eliminate the shock - One of the best features in my book about a treadmill is that if you get the right cushioning, it can take away a lot of the pounding on your body that outside running delivers.
9. A reliable surface - You know exactly what to expect each time you pick them up and put them down on a treadmill, unlike the uneven surface you might encounter running on the local side street. (Oh no, was that my ankle that just twisted into a pot hole?!)
10. You watched an hour of King of Queens re-runs- and that's OK (Or, for ladies, you watched the same Sex and the City episode for the fifth time - and that's OK) - If you watched your favorite show while getting a great treadmill workout, that's not wasted time at all.
Way to go!

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Question :

Is my workout a waste of time? have questions need advice?

So I ll start with saying I m 21 yrs old 5 4 about 147 lbs and I m quite pear shaped. Big butt and hips but smaller on top. My main reason for working out is my stomach pooch that I want to get rid of. I think it might be genetic because no female in my family has a flat stomach even if they are skinny, I don t know if that has to do with anything but I heard, that doing cardio can help because you can t target certain spots and only loose weight you have to burn fat all over? is that right?. So I have a gym in my apartment and they recently put in new machines so yesterday I worked out on this elliptical, it isn t all that hard but it gets me moving and I worked out for 10 min straight and started to sweat. Then I got off and worked out another elliptical and set the resistance to 3.5 and worked for ten minutes. I could really feel that workout in my lower body and I was sweating like a pig and my heart was beating out of my chest practically. After I got done I got on the treadmill and worked out for 10 min walking fast, I set the incline to 3.5 and my speed was 2.7 and I walked for ten minutes and it said my pulse was 157. Then I was done. So my main question is, it okay to break up my workout like that? doing ten minutes on three different machines? or should I just pick one and do 30 min.

Should I also do more than 30 min? I don t really want to loose my body, I like being curvy and don t want to become a stick?

Also when working out on the elliptical should I hold on to the handle bars? or the handle bars that also workout my arms? because I heard you shouldn t but I can t do it without holding on to anything.

If there is any info you can give me it s much appreciated and any advice on how to properly use those machines would help lol.

Answer :
Do your workouts the way that seems most comfortable to you. I personally think that it is better to break your workout up, as you are not overdoing it and ending up injuring something. Breaking it up is much better than ending up sitting around for a week because you decided to try to run 2 hours straight on the treadmill and you tore something getting off.