TravelJug wrote:jamcc wrote:*Point to post on previous page*
Any suggestions/ advice on a budget treadmill? I want to buy one as soon as I can!
I was in the middle of replying to you yesterday then my laptop battery ran out.
Anyway, the gist of it was: It's not the advice you want but you're probably safer doind your sprint training outdoors and save you and your mum alot of money. It'll be better for your knees and ankles outside too. Just invest in a good pair of running shoes. Treadmills are hard for interval training in the sense that it's hard to bring them up and down in speed quick enough for to justify the "intervals."
Yeah I got to agree with this. Budget treadmills = no no. The only ones worth considering are the one's which gym's have and they cost thousands. Get a good pair of running trainers (I recently bought some Asics whilst in the US, and they're very good) instead, you won't regret it.
TravelJug wrote:Cubeamania wrote:
HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)/Fartlek is good for fat loss and anaerobic activity, but for sustained aerobic activity the way to get better at it is, you've guessed it. Sustained aerobic activity. So I'd go with jogging but there's no reason why you can't do a HIIT session once or twice a week just to mix things up a bit.
Cube...you seem to know your stuff! I'm not shocked at that no. What I am shocked at is that I may have found someone else on this forum as interested in fitness/weights/nuritrition as me! Score!
I'm squating 95kg 5x5 at the minute. I'm going to push it up 2.5kg today and then i'll squat 100kg next. I didn't do weights for a few weeks there and it did the world of good. My strength went up. I was struggling with 90kg a few weeks ago.
My DeadLift is strawberry floating gooseberry fool. I'm on around 75kg. I'm just building it up slowly...
I'm mostly interested in weightlifting and getting better at cardio work. Annoyingly the gym I joined is quite rubbish when it comes to free weights equipment so I do DB squats (and plate loaded squat press, 160KG 5x5) and bench press as there is no squat or bench rack. Only the smith-machine version. It's not an ideal solution but its still better then using the smith machines. I was doing squats (5x5) with 30KG dumbells in each hand but its really the grip letting me down and it not a barbell that I can't lift more. For DB bench press (5x5), I've been doing 24KG in each hand. The only reason I can do proper deadlifts is because they have a lone barbell with collars.
I'm very tempted to complain and see if they can get a proper squat and bench rack but seeing as I'm going Uni next month, there's not much point. I just hope my Uni gym has better free weights equipment. I hate those damn smith machines!