Some Closing Pros and Cons of Treadmill Running:Pros:Provides constant or controllable climate conditions.Can be instrumented with biomechanical analysis equipment potentially providing valuable kinetic or kinematic data.Shock dampening surface…softer surfaces should reduce the risk of injury. High speed treadmills permit an athlete to work top end speed independently of acceleration a [...]

Yesterday I started a five-part blog series on treadmills. In the first installment I looked at whether there were mechanical differences between treadmill and overground running. If you haven’t read the blog, the answer is yes there are differences, and these differences are magnified at higher velocities. Now let’s look at the second question of the series:Given that there are differ [...]

I was recently asked to put together a blog on the pros and cons of treadmill running. This is a topic that receives much debate on the various track message boards and also in the scientific community. Proponents of treadmills, such as Athletic Republic (formerly Frappier Acceleration) believe it provides a safe means of training athletes for speed and can provide benefits that overground running [...]