Outdoor runners are being urged to come inside from the cold for group treadmill lessons at a New York City fitness center, following the indoor cycling, or spin, craze.

The Mile High Run Club (MHRC) could help burnish the image of the most used, least glamorous, club cardio equipment, according to fitness experts, with 30 treadmills, dark or dawn illumination, and group training aimed to refine the abilities of marathoners and newbies alike. The founder and program director of MHRC, which describes itself as the first treadmill studio, is Debora Warner, a running coach, and group fitness instructor. She compared it to a group spinning class, where a large number of people are on treadmills at the same time completing a pre-programmed workout.

“You can be very specific about incline, length, and reps,” Warner, 43, added, “and that helps runners with their outside pacing.”

” Treadmills aren’t a substitute for running, but they’re a great way to get in some extra cardio.” The treadmill is the most popular cardio machine at the gym, according to the 2014 Health Club Consumer Report of IHRSA, the trade association for the health club and fitness industry, with 40 percent of the approximately 60 million Americans who frequented a health club in 2013 utilizing it. Nonetheless, according to Tom Holland, an exercise physiologist and running coach in Connecticut, it is considered drudgery.

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“For the most part, running on a treadmill is a horrible experience for most people, and they don’t usually make the most of their time,” said Holland, author of “The Marathon Method.” While interval training is beneficial, he points out that steady running has its own set of advantages. “Most running teachers feel that for every tough workout, you need one or two softer workouts,” Holland added. Despite the fact that Warner’s studio focuses on running, she pointed out that large gyms such as Equinox provide treadmill lessons. Crunch, a national fitness brand, has also employed treadmill intervals in its yoga and boot camp programs.

In a group context, she offers foundational and advanced classes. High-intensity work is used in both, with five-minute warm-ups and cool-downs in between. In addition, the courses involve 10 minutes of strength and power training, which includes lunges, plyometrics (jumping), and stability training, all of which are useful to runners.

Sources: Fox News

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