Treadmill Interval Workout With Hills

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Take your treadmill results further.

Like many of you, I often times find myself getting complacent on the treadmill. It’s so easy to jump on, set your speed, and zone out to your music or the TV in front of you. Well today, I am encouraging you to take back your treadmill workout! You can push yourself so much further, and therefore increase your results, by varying your speeds and inclines. Today I am sharing one of my favorite treadmill interval running workouts. We’ll be using some hills to actually get a pretty sweet leg workout in, also! Here we go…

I love two things about this workout… 1) we’re going to be sprinting; sprints are an amazing way to train some of the muscle fibers in your legs to fire faster and stronger and therefore increase strength, and 2) you control how hard you push yourself. What is “sprinting” to one may not be “sprinting” to the next as far as belt speed is concerned, but the important thing here is that you push yourself as hard as you safely can during your sprint phases. It’s go time!

1 minute Sprint

90 second Recovery

1 minute Sprint at 3% incline

90 second Recovery

1 minute Sprint at 6% incline

90 second Recovery

1 minute Sprint at 9% incline

90 second Recovery

1 minute Sprint at 12% incline

90 second Recovery

Repeated at least 3 times – up to 6 – depending on your fitness level and time available.

Looking for more great running workouts you can do on the treadmill? I’ve got quite a few!