No, I didn't faceplant on one as a child and have the skin rubbed off and now as an adult absolutely hates the things for no real logical reason, I don't know what you're talking about
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There are perfectly logical reasons outside of face planting to hate them. I get that the weather can be shitty outside sometimes, but I’ll take some scenery over a treadmill any day.
This is it for me. I have friends who train for halfs and marathons on a treadmill, and I struggle to focus beyond a mile and a half or so. It's not the cardio element, it's just the sheer boredom factor.
Getting out and about even in gash weather is infinitely preferable from my perspective. I'd much rather smash in six miles on tarmac than one or two on the treaddy. Plus, you can't rack up Pokémon Go distance on a treadmill.
You're supposed to move your feet...
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Ellipticals are a better exercise overall anyways.
Maybe it's because I'm the wrong size but I can never get a rhythm going on an elliptical. It just feels weird.
But I love a good rowing machine. Makes me feel like a pirate rowing ashore with a chest full of booty. Does wonders for my shoulders, too
Yeah, never really liked ellipticals, or treadmills for that matter. Could go for quite a bit on a rowing machine, it doesn't feel much different than a scull, other than not moving through water.
When English civil Engineer Sir William Cubitt invented the “treadwheel,” he didn’t have fitness on his mind.
His device was used to reform convicts.
Prisoners were forced to climb the spokes of a large paddle wheel known as the “eternal staircase.” The resulting energy was used to pump water or crush grain (hence, the eventual transition from “treadwheel” to “treadmill”).
One prison guard claimed that it was the treadmill’s “monotonous steadiness, and not its severity, which constitutes its terror.”
The use of treadwheels was abolished in Britain by the Prisons Act of 1898. Years later, when aerobic exercise became popular in the 1960’s, the treadmill resurfaced.
And treadmills now probably consume way more power now than they could actually generate.
Ok that justifies my hatred of treadmills. Is there a way to justify my hatred of all other forms of exercise also? I know I should exercise more - but....it just seems like work to me.
It is work. That is kind of the point. I also do enough and hate it because it's work
I know I was being very facetious. Sort of. Um maybe not, I really do hate lifting a finger, let alone an arm or leg. Partly it's because of hernias that I'm kind of afraid of doing too much activity, and partly I'm just lazy by nature.
Stop exerting yourself souch, put your phone down for a bit to save energy