Get off the treadmill (with apologies to Mike T Nelson)

It's 85 degrees and I just got back from a five mile bike ride with my daughter. The wind made it pretty tough on some of the hills coming back so it was indeed a workout!

On that note, I just had to put something in on the subject of treadmills and the sacred cow(ness) of them. Hint: If you want to get someone riled up, tell them their $3,000 treadmill was a waste of money! Mike T Nelson's blog just had a post on this and it was right on as usual. It got people about as excited as his "dump the foam roller" article. Mike and I went through a lot of Z Health training to learn how to move better and stop screwing yourself up day after day. Staying off a treadmill is one way to do this!

As always, the choices you make have consequences. If you can make an educated decision I believe you should make one. It is PROVEN that running on treadmills make you slower and worsen your movement. So any chance you get, do anything BUT run on a treadmill. And get outside! That means take bike rides. Jump rope. Jog. Swim. Swing a kettlebell. Think of all the Vitamin D you are getting! If it's raining and you must be inside, work out, play hoops or racquetball, ride on a stationary bike or use a rower machine. But don't use something that will hamper your ability to move. Just pick another protocol, that's all I ask!