Bored on the treadmill?

Do you know what the concept of external time and internal time is? Not? There it goes:

External time is real time: one minute, 60 seconds, one hour,… what the clock objectively measures regardless of whether it is a Rolex, a Kalenji or your grandparents’ cuckoo clock.

Internal time, on the other hand, is the subjective perception of the passage of time experienced by each individual.

If you are not very clear about the difference, I invite you to do a test:

Get on a treadmill, start it rolling and run on top of it. Notice how time seems to have slowed down. The minutes fall so little by little that they choke you. In the end, you end up downloading out of boredom much sooner than you intended.

What has been said, external time: 10 minutes, internal time: 40 hours or more.

How to make training on the treadmill more bearable?

It is not about putting on a Netflix series, or chatting on social networks, or checking work emails, no.
I always advocate the practice of physical activity with full awareness.
You have to be focused on what you are doing, both in the technique and in the effort, otherwise, it will hardly obtain benefits or end up being a significant activity that promotes repetition and habit creation.
Therefore, it is about looking for the formula that allows us to be focused on the effort but at the same time, entertained. And this is easily achievable thanks to the Stryd.

An easy way would be to sign up for Zwift running and run the workouts as if you were playing a video game. Unlike Zwift biking, it’s free and you can get really spectacular results.
Certainly you have limitations in terms of speed and slope (the program does not select it as with the roller) but better this than the seedy continuous race that goes on forever and tests your will.
Stryd is linked with Zwift and thus, like the smart roller for cycling, it knows your intensity of race and is able to place you spatially and temporally in the world of Watopia.

Another option is the one that has come to us as a novelty directly from Stryd. Thanks to the latest update of its app on your smartphone, you can enjoy fun and precise workouts based on your FTP and that also allow you to play not only with the speed of the distance but also with the slope. In this way you can get the most out of your treadmill and you can simulate training for trail and asphalt.

How does it work?

When you start a treadmill workout, you have a screen that will tell you the incline and speed you need to select on the machine to reach your target power.

During the time that each phase lasts, you will have another field that will indicate whether you are within the desired values or not.

Every time there is a change in segment, the app will notify you of the change in slope and/or speed so that you can anticipate and always be in the desired power range.

Go following the changes that the app asks you to, enjoy your training session and finish it without having to spend an ounce of will. You will see how easy it is to get off the treadmill with the satisfaction of the goal achieved.

As if this alone was not enough, once you have finished the session, you can analyze what you have done, even the positive difference you have accumulated!

In the app’s treadmill workout library, you have 12 structured sessions open to all Stryd users. If you are a Stryd membership user, you can create your own sessions using the session builder tool.

If you did not have Stryd, here is another reason to finish deciding on your purchase. Whether you run outdoors or indoors, you can take advantage of each and every workout you do to improve your performance and run at the right intensity. If it’s also more fun, what more could you ask for?