The person needs to have reasonably good balance and coordination to use a treadmill. If don’t hold on to the side posts for support. Never get off a moving treadmill or wait for the treadmill to come to a complete stop.
The user can alter the intensity of the workout by increasing the speed and grade of the treadmill.
Treadmills offer number of advantages. Walking is a very natural activity for almost everyone, so individuals normally adjust to the skill required for walking on a treadmill within a few minutes.
The motor driven treadmill progressively increasing exercise stress through a combination of speed and grade or slope increases.
Treadmills generally produce higher peak values than other ergometers for almost all assessed physiological variables, such as heart rate, ventilation, and oxygen uptake.
Using treadmills, a larger muscle mass can be brought to endurance during treadmill exercise, leading to a greater stress on the organ systems mediating the exercise response.
Treadmill, also permits higher peak cardiopulmonary workload and is a more accurate predictor of VO2-max.
Treadmill protocols are quite flexible because the speed and grade of treadmill walking can be varied independently to change the workload.
It was said that treadmill training is a therapeutic modality that allows the individual with stroke to actively engage in repetitive stepping.
Walking on a treadmill is an example of task specific gait training that appears to be critical to the achievement of improved walking speed and endurance.
Using Treadmill
