All About A Treadmill Interval Trainer Program

Yuri Elkaim, BPHE, CK, RHN
myTreadmillTrainer.com

Becoming a runner is like becoming a fire juggler – there’s some pain involved at the beginning, but eventually you’ll get the hang of it and it will be awesome.

One thing that is better about running than fire juggling, though, is that you can safely and easily do it in the privacy and comfort of your own home – on a treadmill.  If you want to get in great shape, whether it’s just for losing weight or for serious indoor training – then creating a treadmill interval trainer program is the perfect option.

Interval Training In A Nutshell

We all know how the body works, basically.  We eat fuel (food); the body uses this fuel as energy to power our muscles and other systems in our body.  When we take in more fuel than we need, it is stored – in the form of fat.  Too much fat, and we become overweight and obese.  Therefore, the trick is either to a.) take in less fuel, or b.) burn off more fuel so it does not turn into fat.

Interval training is the second option. Running at a standard pace is all well and good, but to really burn fat, you need to shock your body into torching those fat cells by turning up the heat. To do this, during a standard run, you increase your speed dramatically for a short amount of time every so often during the run.  This burns through your body’s store of energy at a quicker pace – and when your body needs more fuel, it turns to your body’s fat.

Voila. Your fat is thus torched.

A Treadmill Interval Trainer Workout

Here is how you can use the treadmill and its features to create your own treadmill interval trainer program.

Interval training is all about varying your speed.  No matter what kind of physical condition you are in, you can vary your speed during your workout to get that speed spike you need.  For example, if you are power walking at a pace of 11 minutes per mile, then you can manually increase the speed to 9:30-10:00 per mile for 30-60 seconds every two minutes.

Likewise, if you are running at a pace of 7:00 per mile, then you can increase the speed to 6:15-6:30 minutes per mile for 60 seconds at a time every two minutes or so.

Interval training can also be done by increasing the incline of the treadmill.  Go from flat to 1-2 degrees for 30-60 seconds every two minutes.  For a harder workout, go to 3-4 degrees of incline combined with a speed increase. Increasing both at the same time will multiply the intensity and make your body work even harder.

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