My first foray into treadmill running with Garmin tracking my stats
I haven't talked about it in a while so I am going to mention my Garmin Vivo-Active 4 again. It's expensive and to a lot of people it is too expensive for a smart-watch, which is a type of things I always promised myself I would never buy. I got one though and have been very happy with it.
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It's a pretty kick ass watch and I have been a bit bamboozled when it comes to attempting to understand how it could possibly know how much exercise of a particular sort that I have done. It does end up being wildly accurate though in most situations including swimming and even kayaking. The swimming impressed me the most because how does it accurately pinpoint where you are and how far you have gone in a pool? Well it somehow knows and it likely has a lot to do with that green laser thing that is flowing through my wrist all day every day, almost certainly giving me space cancer or something.
I have never tried using the Garmin on a treadmill for two reasons: The treadmill itself keeps up with how far you have run and the main reason is because I hate running on treadmills.
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There are a lot of reasons that I hate running on treadmills but the main one is that it is exceptionally boring. When I am running out and about I at least have the chance to look at things and maybe even meet a person or two. That shit aint gonna happen in the small gym that is in my apartment building and this is especially true since I don't particularly care for any of my neighbors.
Well anyway, I live somewhere that is damn near arctic in the winter and after walking home from the train station that is less than 400 meters from my house and feeling like I nearly died of hypothermia, I didn't want to put on all my cold weather gear to go for a run, which I need in order to maintain my awesome physique. That's sarcasm by the way, I have a normal body for someone in their 40's perhaps a little bit better.
A couple of things to note about this readout. I did not run exactly 6 km, the time I spent running is correct but at the end of a treadmill session the Garmin, admitting that it cannot possibly know how far you went while as far as the satellites are concerned you have been standing in one place, asked me how far the treadmill said that I had run. I don't have the best eyes so I couldn't really see what it was asking me. I don't actually remember how far I went but to me, that isn't important. I try to maintain an elevated heart rate for an hour and don't really focus on much else.
The rest of the stats seem pretty accurate and I was kind of surprised at how high my heart rate got during all of this. I'm a bit impressed with myself actually and I am very likely to believe the heart rate records of the Garmin even more than the other data. Burning near 700 calories in something that wasn't really that difficult but was just time consuming was pretty neat as well.
So while I don't relish the idea of being subjected to running indoors for the foreseeable future there are only two other alternatives and that is to not run at all or to put on my cold weather running gear. This is a normal phenomenon for me, it normally takes me a month or so to become accustomed to the fact that it is freezing here all day and all night for the next 4 months. Once mid January comes around I will be back to running outside.
In the meantime though I am actually pretty happy with the results of the tracking on the Garmin and will continue to monitor my indoor running like this for now.
I have started using my garmin stats a lot more recently, but not for pace. I read a book by Philip maffetone and am making sure I do not run above my zone 2 easy heart rate zone unless it supposed to be a hard workout. Previously without sticking to my easy zones I recon I have been doing too many harder runs each week. The heart rate display on my watch definitely keeps we a lot more accountable.
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I will try that easy zone. I'm guessing that is zone 2 on a Garmin? That would mean for me that my heart rate needs to stay below 128... that seems extremely low. What is meant to be the benefit of this? I don't think I would be able to run at all if I had to keep my heart rate below that level. Just a faster walk
Depends how many runs you do per week. the theory is 80% should be really easy. I have found it useful to keep my easy runs slow and work on my running economy and efficiency. People have walked past me running zone 2 slow at parkrun !LOL
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@normie.fitness! @new.things Loves walking/running, and wants to motivate your stride as well! so I just sent 0.1 STR to your account on behalf of @new.things.
Keep your stride high!
I've not been on a treadmill in a long time. They are boring unless there's a TV to watch. I've used the indoor mode of my Garmin when I was on a cruise as a moving ship would give wrong values when running around the deck. I think it guessed the actual distance fairly well based on steps.
Not sure about the wrist space cancer though.
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ahhh, that's very interesting about the cruise track. Yeah, that must have really thrown off the GPS.
As a owner of garmin instict 2, which i get brand new near the date of release, i am not satisfied with accuracy of the data. The peak of disappointment was a hiking where calculate the half distance
maybe they have improved with time. I didn't get involved with them until recently and thought they were fitness overkill when they first hit the market.
I have access to a treadmill and still don't jump up and say I will use it because it is monotonous. I will be using the exercise bike though and have asked them to exchange it for one that will have swift so I can at least get involved in races. If anything is going to give you a reason to stay active it is competing against others and I am kind of competitive. Thankfully I get the equipment for free as they are all demos from the show room.
that's fantastic that you can get that stuff for free. I agree with the competitive side of things. There is also a sense of community in stuff like that such as every time I have entered a race of sorts I always have much better times than I would if I was just in the park on my own. This sort of "nobody else is giving up so I wont either" attitude.
Yes you give it the extra push which you would normally not do. I am very competitive and will do a 200km stint on an exercise bike with no problem.
I want a garmin, but in the meantime I buy an Amazfit watch to monitor my heart rate, I have learned a lot to monitor my race pace and my heart rate, because I can't run at the limit every day.
I've never heard of Amazfit, is it a cheaper alternative to Garmin?
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