Anti-Gravity Treadmill
By enveloping your lower body in a bubble of pressurized air, these machines bear part of your weight. The result: You can go farther with less impact. Run between 85 and 95 percent of your true weight to keep the training stimulus close to normal.
With reduced weight, you'll run with higher turnover. Try a tempo workout of 5 x 5:00 at half marathon pace with one minute of easy jogging to recover.
How Fit Are You? Here are 10 Ways to Find Out
Pool Running
There's still value in the old standby: pool running.
Wear a flotation belt so that you can focus on good form instead of not drowning, and use a heart rate monitor to gauge effort.
Olympic bronze medalist Brian Diemer, now a running coach at Calvin College, used this killer pool-running workout before the 1992 Olympic Trials:
Are you running with the right shoes for your workout? Check out the Best New Running Shoes of Fall 2013.
More: 3 Exercise Alternatives for Injured Runners
Sign up for your next race. - 2
- of
- 2
Get ACTIVE on the Go
Couch to 5K®
The best way to get new runners off the couch and across the finish line of their first 5K.
Available for iOS | Android
Discuss This Article