
2. Since the treadmill belt assists with leg turnover, use this to help you increase your turnover by setting a faster pace on the treadmill. By speeding up for small increments of time, you can do speed workouts and develop faster leg turnover.
3. With run paces on the treadmill and the road not being equal, run by perceived exertion. If you need an easy run, go by feel, and keep it simple regardless of what the pace or mile per hour on the treadmill may say. Likewise, if you need a hard workout, go by feel rather than pace.
And here is one of my favorite treadmill workouts:
- Begin with a 5 to 10 minute warmup and put a 1 percent incline on the treadmill.
- Start with an easy effort for 5 minutes.
- Bump up to a medium effort for 4 to 5 minutes.
- Increase to a hard effort for 3 to 4 minutes.
- Repeat this sequence as often as desired for time or mileage.
- Cool-down for 5 minutes.