Burning calories - running or brisk walking at gradient?

[TedMaul]

TedMaul said:

balders118 said:

Just to back up...

Don't hold on to the bars!! I see so many people doing this at the gym I work at, it just allowes you to angle your body at such a way that you are effectively ruducing the gradient and making it easier.

Don't stick to just walkng as its not going to much good in terms of fitness so do try and introduce short jogs into your workout as this will help improve your fitness, where as walkng although helping you to lose weght, will not get you particularly cardovascularly fit. Maybe try interval training, with (to start with) 1 minute waking and 30 seconds running. As you get fitter you can increase the time or speed at which you run at.

Chris

That interval sounds ideal for me as although I am strong I don't have much stamina. I think a google on setting up the machine to do it automatically,

Thanks all for feedback, think I know what I've been doing wrong!

This last two weeks, I have mostly been doing intervals. 3 mins at 5.5kmh at 7% followed by 2 mins at 8kmh repeated 6 times (30 min session)

Really hurts, and although calorie counter on machine shows about 250, feels much harder than than that. Can consume 750ml of water during exercise. Working a treat as def slimming/changing shape although overall weight loss not dramatic.

Thanks for the tips.

[balders118]

No worries!!