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This won’t work if your tall. On fast runs my ankles routinely left the back of the treadmill. Keeping your torso tracked in the “middle” is harder the more fat
by dkdk8283 5y ago
This won’t work if your tall. On fast runs my ankles routinely left the back of the treadmill. Keeping your torso tracked in the “middle” is harder the more fatigued you get. A sudden e-stop will fuck you up if your running at 8mph.
- ryukafalz 5y agoThe back legs are below the treadmill, not behind it, so I don't think this would be an issue?
- alisonkisk 5y agoIf you are too fatigued to keep running with good form, please stop using the machine before you hurt yourself.
- tzs 5y agoI'd expect that they would just cut power to the motor, so it would not be an instantaneous stop. It would take a second or two. That probably wouldn't fuck you up. Remember that on a treadmill you are running in place. You don't actually have any forward momentum, so you don't have to worry about slamming into the console at 8 mph. It's not like if you were running outdoors and someone suddenly put an obstacle a few feet in front of you. You should just have maybe a little stumble, at most requiring that you use the rails to steady yourself. Here's a video of someone running when power was cut to their gym [1]. The power goes out at 1:07. It's probably worth actually testing this at various speeds working up to your normal maximum speed. I've done that (although I just do fast walks, not running) because one of the reasons I might be on the treadmill instead of outside is bad weather, which is sometimes accompanied by power failures, and I wanted to know if I should avoid the treadmill during those times. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvGp-FbE1TM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvGp-FbE1TM