EFX machine, 33:00, ~5150 strides
Avg heart rate: 175
I was disgustingly sweaty after doing the elliptical machine yesterday, so it was fiiting to come home and see this in Runner’s World, in response to a question about whether people who are in great shape sweat less (as the rumor goes):
“Runners who aren’t drenched at the end of a workout may indeed be more fit, but their inability to wring out their shirt is most likely because they weren’t working at as high an intensity as others who are running the same pace or distance. If a beginner and an experienced runner go for a run together, the beginner with undoubtedly perspire more than the experienced one because he’ll be working harder…
Actually, well-conditioned runners start sweating earlier in a run than their nonrunning friends do. Their bodies are better trained to regulate their core temperatures, so they’ll perspire at lower body temperatures.
Fitness level isn’t the only thing that determines how much runners sweat. … Genetics play a role, too: Some people just have more sweat glands.”
wow, I know you’re faster than me, but THAT much faster? what resistance/elevation do you do the elliptical machine at? I do one of the preprogrammed “varied” courses, with a baseline 3 of resistance (goes up to 7 with full inclination during the course), and I can get 2000 strides in 30 minutes IF I go fast. I would think even if I went to just the base and went fast, I might be able to get 3000 in. But 5000?
I do an interval program. I set the “lows” to be resistance 5 & incline 9 and the “highs” to be resistance 9 and incline 14. I think the max incline of the machine is 17, so I don’t go all the way to max, but…
It counts a stride as putting one foot forward. So one full revolution of the pedal (where you foot goes forward and then back) is two strides. Possibly yours counts it differently.
But also, I imagine I do the elliptical at a much higher intensity than you. My legs are moving just as fast, and often faster, on the EFX machine than they are when I’m running.
I bet the stride count explanation makes the most sense. Because that would mean would do 4000 strides in the time you do 5000 – which is probably a more accurate description of how much slower I am than you. I also move faster on the elliptical than when running (i can’t move much slower than I run!). And, I definitely go slower than you, but I wouldn’t imagine that you go more than twice as fast as me. I mean, you don’t run twice as fast as me (my, embarrisng, 14 min mile to your 10 min mile)
Just watch the stride count the next time you’re on it and see how it counts.
I wonder if the machines I use will do a stride count. I know that in 50 minutes I do about 3 miles, I think just about 60RPM. I’ll have to watch more carefully tonight. This is at level “16” of I think 20 or 25, we don’t have seperate incline levels. Obviously I’ll have to come down there sometime and see, though I’m sure Sarah will still kick my butt.
And I sweat pretty well.
I always thought the better in shape you were, the more you sweat for the same level of effort. That means of course that you may not sweat running at the same speed you did when you were less in shape because it doesn’t take effort anymore. I sweat less nowadays than when I was younger and fitter.
Yeah, I’ll watch the stride count. I do about 50/60 rpms, depending on the resistance/incline. I don’t trust the mileage counter on mine. According to the instruction manual, there’s this little loop that appears, and once around the loop is supposed to be 1/4 of a mile. And it takes me 10 minutes to make it around the loop! No way. Even Tiffany, who goes crazy fast on the machine says there’s no way she covers that little distance (she usually makes it around the loop in 7 minutes at the flat incline).
I average 75-80 RPM, and 5000 strides on the machine I use is somewhere around 2.25 miles (I looked it up online once in the machine’s user manual, and it said 2241 strides was a mile).
I sweat more now than I used to. It’s gross.
For me sweating depends a lot on conditioning — both your level of fitness and the temperature at which you are used to working out. When I played volleyball everyday in Arkansas (even in the summer 90+ heat) that gave me pretty good protection all the way through undergrad. One time our super-in-shape bubble-roomate even commented on how I never seemed to sweat when I worked out.
England however killed any tolerance I have for heat.
I think your mileage count is better. If we work with the premise that my machine counts half as many strides as yours does, it means (on my machine) about 1100 strides = 1 mi. I cover 1100 strides in a little over 15 minutes, which is the amount of time I’d about expect to go a mile.
That’s a lot of comments about sweating and how many steps you take in half an hour.