Treadmills have a magic that other cardio equipment can’t quite match. Compared with the usual suspects (rowers, spin bikes, ellipticals, stair climbers, cross-country ski machines), treadmills can help you burn more calories at every intensity. “Also, running on a treadmill promotes dynamic balance, something you don’t get on seated equipment like a bike or a rower,” says Christi Brewer, an assistant professor of exercise science at Eastern Washington University. A new study by Christi showed that a treadmill run can even outburn a high-intensity weight circuit. At the same heart rate, exercisers doing a steady 20-minute treadmill run burned 37 per cent more calories (206) than doing 20 minutes of circuit training with weights (fast-paced reps for 30 seconds and no rest between sets), even though they rated circuits much…
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Shape Singapore (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2019