24-02-2012, 06:06 PM
Indoors is a controlled environment, in preparing to run indoors and on a treadmill you know in advance what you will be receiving
you even able to increase the speed of the mat to the pace you should be running at
outdoors, you have no control of your environment and you have to generate the pace yourself; the effort taken to achieve the pace, places different stresses upon the biomechanics than on the treadmill surface (though with some runners they can have problems with their calf muscles due to the mat having too much give)
and actually, my reasoning behind a 1% incline on the treadmill would be more to do with the need to generate the equivalent effort outdoors from the surface provided
you also receiving the advantage of the pace being provided and not having to expend the mental energy needed for this
a controlled environment is the major factor (imo) and the stresses of adapting to the outdoor scenario on a daily training basis can have more of a mental strain than indoors
though some will argue that indoors is less stimulating and borders on boring
I suppose the bottom line is simply to run
I don't believe there are exact truths to anything here and you could place my reasoning into an opinion however over the years of coaching I have witnessed how training environments affected things as well as the power of the mind and how emotion plays a major role
may the force be with you
TheEd
you even able to increase the speed of the mat to the pace you should be running at
outdoors, you have no control of your environment and you have to generate the pace yourself; the effort taken to achieve the pace, places different stresses upon the biomechanics than on the treadmill surface (though with some runners they can have problems with their calf muscles due to the mat having too much give)
and actually, my reasoning behind a 1% incline on the treadmill would be more to do with the need to generate the equivalent effort outdoors from the surface provided
you also receiving the advantage of the pace being provided and not having to expend the mental energy needed for this
a controlled environment is the major factor (imo) and the stresses of adapting to the outdoor scenario on a daily training basis can have more of a mental strain than indoors
though some will argue that indoors is less stimulating and borders on boring
I suppose the bottom line is simply to run
I don't believe there are exact truths to anything here and you could place my reasoning into an opinion however over the years of coaching I have witnessed how training environments affected things as well as the power of the mind and how emotion plays a major role
may the force be with you
TheEd