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January 05, 2010
NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly gives a treadmill workspace lesson
I read in Jen Murphy's June 23, 2009 Wall Street Journal article that part of his four times a week hourly workout routine is 30 minutes of walking on a treadmill with a slight incline — at 4.4 miles an hour — while reading.
Have you tried walking on a treadmill with a slight incline at 4.4 mph and reading?
I did after learning about Kelly's regimen and I am here to report the following:
1. It's quite tiring — I can do it but let me tell you I wouldn't except for the purpose of this investigation.
2. It's much easier to run at 4.4 mph than to walk at that speed, but Kelly had a knee operation three years ago which forced him to stop running.
3. If you walked a marathon at 4.4 mph you'd finish in just under 6 hours — faster than many runners.
January 5, 2010 at 02:01 PM | Permalink
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Wouldn't they generate more exercise by running directly on the street and using their arms in conjunction with their legs?
Posted by: Kay | Jan 6, 2010 11:34:53 AM
I walk on the 'mill at 4.0 mph (the extra .4 is doable but like you said, really tiring) for 30 min. pretty regularly, but to do it while reading? No way, not me. The words won't stay still - they jump up and down with every blasted step. In fact, things out there have always jumped around when I take a step, my whole life.
So, I googled around and amazing things happened! Turns out that's called oscillopsia, and it's a feature of this strange thing called superior canal dehiscence, in which, among other weirdness, you can hear (yes, that's HEAR) your eyeballs moving around in your head when it's quiet. Swear to God! According to Wikipedia's report, that's damn near diagnostic, I reckon. It has a name! I'm not crazy! Well, not in that way, anyhow. Whee! w00t! I wonder if it'll kill me, though...
Posted by: Flautist | Jan 5, 2010 8:48:37 PM
Is this neat item street legal? I'm sure it's not but does it fall under "bicycle" laws?
Posted by: Joe Peach | Jan 5, 2010 6:20:20 PM
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