Can I Train on a Treadmill?

Treadmill Running

You can do all of your run workouts on a treadmill; we have many athletes who do all or the majority of sessions indoors due to location or environment. A few factors to consider:

1. The effort sections in Speed/Interval workouts will have some lag as you build to the right pace/speed/HR (whichever measure). However, this will be offset at the backend.
2. Long runs will give you psychological training benefit as well as physiological endurance fitness gains.
3. Have the treadmill at a 1% incline to counter the indoor advantage of no wind resistance.
4. As you near your race, you will benefit by doing one or two of the long ones outside preferably with terrain/environment/climate/elevation that is similar to your target race.

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