So I did 80 minutes on the treadmill today, with a 15 degree (or is that 15% ?) slant… 3mph, for a 1000 calorie burn.
I’m a hiker, usually on mountains, so besides just good cardio health and fat loss, I’m basically training for my mountain trail hiking.
What I have seen in the last couple months, is that I have went from 1 mile 250 Cal workouts in which my heart rate went as high as 162… To today’s workout that as I say was an 80 min, 4 miler in which my heart rate only climbed 131 for short periods, but usually below 130.
If it were you, and you were training for endurance, would you be stepping it up to 100 or 120 min or would you increase the speed to force a higher heart rate ?
I wish I could go steeper than 15 degrees… Or be wearing a 40 lb pack like I do in the field…
Not trying to be a speed freak. Prefer to be a non stop bulldozer…
Your thoughts or suggestions plz.