Treadmills were designed to make exercising convenient, easier and beneficial in a way that allowed users to lose weight and maintain their cardiovascular health. They were meant to allow users to run any day they wanted at any time they wanted, if they happened to own a treadmill at home.
If not, gyms were readily available. However, that is not the case considering the current state of the world. Most gyms all around the world are closed and safety protocols are in place to ensure the safety against the virus.
Regardless, this post aims at answering the question on whether or not running on a treadmill is easier in comparison to running outside.
Here are some points on what makes running on a treadmill easier.
- It is very convenient. Treadmills were designed and made to be convenient. A user didn’t have to worry about running at night if they were a night runner or worry about coming home late. They could schedule their exercise time as they pleased and this is easy to say the least. This convenience makes using a treadmill easier.
- Treadmills are designed to soak up any return forces when your foot touches the ground. This is to help protect your joints from injuries. This makes running on a treadmill very easy and efficient.
- Treadmills are also designed to be user friendly. Seeing as it is 2020, most software design is human centered. Meaning they try to give a feeling or invoke a notion of interacting with a human being. Thus, they make using a treadmill and understanding how to use it very easy. Moreover, there are guides on Youtube to make the learning process even easier.
- Treadmills allow the users to exercise despite the weather conditions. Because of season changes and other factors, the weather is very inconsistent. Regardless of that, treadmills make it easier for users to exercise because it is an indoor equipment. Come rain or sunshine, you can either run, walk, jog or sprint. It is ideally what they made to achieve.
- Treadmills have a wide variety of programs to choose from when using. Treadmill users are able to change the terrain at which they use through a variety of programs such as Random Hill, the Fat Region Area, The Cardiovascular Program etc in order to help them lose weight. Setting up these programs is just but a button away and imitates running on similar terrains except in the comfort of a treadmill.
- Treadmill running is much easier for users with injuries. Because of the uneven terrain when running outside, running on a treadmill is much easier for those with injuries because of the flat footing that users land with while running on a treadmill. It is much easier for injured users to use it because of the consistency it provides and other features such as the soaking of forces from the ground.
Because of the term ‘dreadmill’ most users are aware of the adaptability issues when it comes to running on a treadmill. The experience of running on a treadmill is much different than running outside which is filled with nature. Despite the evidence found in studies that there is not much of a difference between the two states.
Furthermore, this lack of adaptability insinuates the notion that running on a treadmill is quite dreadful to say the least.
However, if one is able to get used to it, by maybe incorporating running both outside and on the treadmill on days where the weather tends to disagree with humanity, you can have your cake and eat it too.
CONCLUSION
The main difficulty that comes from running on a treadmill stems from the psychological. Because running outside is considered to be therapeutic, most people find running on treadmills harder when in literal sense it is simply the same.
Treadmills try to imitate the sensation of running albeit in the comfort of your own home and you are able to control which type of software program you would like to aid you in your workout regimen. This is a much easier and faster process and truly, it gets the job done.
Running on a treadmill is easier because the machine itself is easier to use and control. Moreover, treadmills are designed with many things in mind, one of them being, treadmills are able to soak up returning ground forces when your foot touches the ground.
This is to minimize injuries and maximize efficiency. Furthermore, treadmills are much easier to use for people with either long- or short-term injuries. It helps them heal in an environment that will cater to their wounds and since it is indoors, they have a lower risk of getting infected.
Finally, running on treadmills is easy after all.
