Treadmill Training for Marathon Runners

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Aaron Hale at Fitness for Life in Wilmington, North Carolina here to give you a few tips for treadmill training for marathon runners. Some of the things we can do we have spoke about them before are interval training. Those are definitely going to help to probably increase our pace in our actual overall endurance levels. Interval training has proven to actually help us with our endurance levels more so than actually just endurance training which would mean to keep a pace over a certain period of time and hold that pace. Interval training has actually shown that we can actually increase our amount of endurance in a quicker fashion. That being said the treadmill is going to be especially if we are in a race season the treadmill is going to help to kind of save our joints in our lower body by not exposing them to the outside elements. That being said if you are looking to run a marathon you are going to have to do some outside running especially when we have some races that are in the summer time, heat. You need to get accustomed to those outdoor elements, running on those surfaces in order to see any results that you, if you have any particular goals as a marathon runner you want to increase your time. Probably the best way to do it is to actually run outside and probably stay away from the treadmill. Although there are some things that we can do on the treadmill that will help us outside but there is nothing that beats running outside to help us to accomplish our goals than actually running outside. That's Aaron Hale here at Fitness for Life. Thank you very much."