{"id":93,"date":"2005-11-07T09:19:42","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T14:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=93"},"modified":"2005-11-07T09:19:42","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T14:19:42","slug":"training-on-a-treadmill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/11\/07\/training-on-a-treadmill\/","title":{"rendered":"Training on a treadmill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start by saying I am categorically opposed to training with a treadmill. The whole point of hiking is to get off the treadmills\/ellipticals\/weight machines and out into the world. The best way to <em>train<\/em> for an activity is to <em>do<\/em> the activity.  Having said all this, I must concede <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azstarnet.com\/dailystar\/accent\/101023.php\">the high-incline training machines mentioned in this article <\/a> would be better than nothing for those who want a workout but don&#8217;t want to don all their gear and drive to a trailhead.<br \/>\n<P>The article is pegged to the idea that people who don&#8217;t have a lot of time to exercise can do something really, really hard for, say, 20-30 minutes, rather than something mildy hard for an hour.  Again, better than nothing, but endurance is just as big a deal as physical strength, and the only way I know of to build endurance is keep doing something for a long time.<br \/>\n<P>Best thing to do is skip that episode of &#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221; and do something that works up a sweat. And then you can tell the folks around the watercooler, &#8220;oh, I don&#8217;t watch TV,&#8221; and they&#8217;ll be forced to make some sheepish, lame excuse for the 14 shows they know they shouldn&#8217;t watch but do anyway because they&#8217;re beer-gutted couch potatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start by saying I am categorically opposed to training with a treadmill. The whole point of hiking is to get off the treadmills\/ellipticals\/weight machines and out into the world. The best way to train for an activity is&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/11\/07\/training-on-a-treadmill\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}