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Yahoo
14 hours ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Elliptical Machine vs. Treadmill: Which Cardio Machine Will Be Best for Your Workouts?
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." "CARDIO MACHINE" HAS become a catch-all term to describe exercise bikes, treadmills, rowers, and ellipticals. Categorizing an entire section of your commercial gym can be practical, sure—but the unique benefits of each type of apparatus get lost in that label. Not all cardio machines are created equal, and the one that works best for you will depend on several factors, like your goals, your weight, and your injury history, and more. Two of the most popular options are the treadmill and elliptical. You'll find them in virtually every gym, from mom-and-pop shops to big-box chains. Both allow you to get moving and raise your heart rate—but that's where the similarities stop. To help you figure out whether you're #TeamTread or #Elliptigain, we spoke to Chris Parnell, an NYC-based personal trainer and Men's Physique competitor in the World Natural Bodybuilding Federation. The Differences Between Elliptical Machines and Treadmills Let's start with the commonalities these two cardio titans share. Both have controls that allow you to alter the speed, incline, and resistance of your workout; they enable you to jack up your heart rate, and they let you move on a fixed path in the sagittal plane (movement when your arms and legs move forward and backward). Other than that, the look of these cardio machines and how they feel when you use them are completely different. Here's how each machine moves, feels, and fits into a workout. The Treadmill The treadmill is a long platform with a motorized belt tread that allows you to run in place. Runners of all levels use treadmills for training, both as an all-weather option and for specific workouts designed to maintain a consistent pace or incline level, which can be a useful approach to improving performance and fitness. Many folks gravitate to treadmills because they let you walk and run indoors, they're great for performing intervals since you can easily hop off them, and if you crank up the incline, they provide a killer hamstring and glute workout. 'The treadmill is the most practical machine to progress a client with,' says Parnell. 'Most clients come to me to improve body composition, so I'll start them with walking, progress to a brisk walk, and eventually incline walking. The goal is to keep the heart rate between 60 percent and 80 percent of their max. There are plenty of calculators online to help estimate that.' : The Elliptical Machine On the other hand, elliptical machines are clunkier-looking rigs with two upper-body handles and two foot pedals that rotate back and forth on a fixed track in an elliptical motion. They're meant to mimic the movement patterns of running and walking, but don't require striking a surface with your foot. 'This is a low-impact aerobic machine, which is advantageous for promoting joint protection,' says Parnell. : Benefits of the Treadmill Allows for Running Training Ellipticals may mimic the motion of running, but only the treadmill lets you actually walk, jog, or run. 'The specificity of how humans move is the treadmill's biggest strength,' says Parnell. Running in place in a controlled environment might have some purists foaming at the mouth—but no machine better replicates actual running mechanics than the treadmill. And there are some advantages—treadmills let you run uninterrupted by traffic lights, uneven sidewalks, or unpredictable weather. Supports Sprinting and Intervals Treadmills are ideal for structured interval training. Many models include built-in timers or interval modes that let you program speed shifts every 30 seconds or minute. Even without those features, transitioning between sprints and rest is seamless—you can straddle the belt during recovery and jump back on when it's go time. Allows for More Challenging Workouts Many treadmill models allow you to manipulate the incline to challenge your posterior chain. Crank it up, and your glutes and hamstrings will fire as you drive up the slope. One of the most popular examples is the viral 12-3-30 workout: set the incline to 12%, speed to 3 mph, and walk for 30 minutes. It sounds simple…until you try it. The climb creates more muscular demand than a flat jog. Benefits of the Elliptical Easier on Your Joints Ellipticals have large foot-shaped platforms you stand on, as you glide back and forth like you're in La La Land. Because your feet never leave the pedals, there's no pounding or ground reaction force with each stride. That means you lose out on the bone-loading benefits of treadmill walking but gain something arguably more important for many lifters: Less joint impact. If you have a preexisting injury, always check with a medical professional before using a cardio machine. That said, the elliptical is generally considered a safer option for people with lower-body joint issues than high-impact options like running. Related: These HIIT Workouts Will Make You Forget Boring Cardio Friendlier for Bigger Builds If you're carrying more weight—whether muscle, body fat, or both—the elliptical may be the more comfortable choice for cardio. Since it's a zero-impact machine, you're not putting stress on your joints with every stride like on a treadmill. There's also a coordination factor. Treadmills require more balance and rhythm to walk or run fluidly on a moving belt. If you're on the heavier side, that can feel awkward. The elliptical, on the other hand, locks you into a fixed path, reducing the chance of tripping or misstepping. It keeps your movement smooth, controlled, and safe. Better for Long, Slow, Steady State Workouts Some guys want to hit the gym and just move for extended periods, with a TV or a book for company. If you like to read or stream while you do cardio (no judgment here), the elliptical is your best bet. Because it requires less balance and coordination than a treadmill, there's a much lower risk of wiping out mid-episode. And if you're logging 30 minutes plus per session, pairing your cardio with a show or book can turn a slog into something you actually look forward to. Think of it as a smart way to double-dip on your 'me time.' Which Machine Burns More Calories? Calorie burn will be largely variable depending on individual factors, so shouldn't choose your cardio machine based solely on numbers. If you train hard, stay consistent, and manage your nutrition, both machines can help you torch fat and boost endurance. The quick answer, though: Running on a treadmill will likely burn more calories than a hard elliptical session. According to the Compendium of Physical Activities, running on a curved treadmill at 7 MPH burns 11 metabolic equivalents, or METs. METs are a unit of measurement of your working metabolic rate versus your resting metabolic rate. They scale, so the more intense the activity you're doing, the more your METs multiply. Comparatively, using an elliptical at a 'vigorous' effort burns 9 METs. Once you know your METs, you can determine your total caloric burn using this formula: METS x 3.5 x BW(KG) / 200 = kcal per minute. Say you weigh 180 pounds, using this calculation, you'd burn 15.5 calories per minute running on a treadmill or 12.7 calories per minute during a brutal elliptical workout. You can also use this calculator to get an idea of how many calories you burn during various types of exercise. Which Cardio Machine Should You Use? There isn't a wrong answer to this question. Both the elliptical and the treadmill are solid ways to add cardio training to your routine. Some people might have better experiences with one over the other, though, depending on their individual needs. Here are some factors you can consider that will help you choose the best cardio machine for your training days: If You're a Runner: Treadmill. Since the treadmill lets you run freely, this is the best option for folks who are focused on run training. If You Have Achy Joints: Elliptical. Since the elliptical is a zero-impact machine, you won't risk aggravating your knees, hips, or ankles. If You Prefer Long Steady State Cardio Sessions: Elliptical. Again, it's a no-impact machine that requires less coordination, making it a safer pick for lengthy workouts. If You Want to Do Sprints or Intervals: Treadmill. You have better control over your sprinting mechanics (hip extension and knee flexion) and can easily hop on and off the belt. Best Treadmills and Elliptical Machines for Home Training Want to add a cardio component to your home gym? Whether you think a treadmill or elliptical machine—or both—will be best for your personal goals, you can trust these standout models for your needs.T Series 5 $599.00 at Treadmill $2599.00 at Elliptical $1199.99 at Trainer M9 $1799.00 at You Might Also Like The Best Hair Growth Shampoos for Men to Buy Now 25 Vegetables That Are Surprising Sources of Protein
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Automotive
- Daily Mail
Wealthy residents of glitzy mountain town rage that 14 new PARKING spaces have ruined its 'vibe'
An ultra-exclusive mountain town has been left bitterly divided after officials developed a row of new parking spaces. Telluride, nestled in Colorado 's San Juan Mountains, is a famed summer getaway for billionaires, celebrities, and Silicon Valley moguls. In April the town added 14 new paid diagonal parking spaces on a section near its main street as part of a pilot program. It was hoped that the extra spaces would alleviate an increase in demand in the historic downtown area, creating more spaces in the high-traffic area. The spaces have been slammed by those who own or occupy homes along the road, citing safety concerns, congestion and negative effects on the town's aesthetic. Rosie Cusack, a resident of 29 years, told The Denver Post: 'The diagonal parking creates a negative visual impact as you arrive into town. It's like this terrible vibe.' Her main issue is the lack of transparency around the new spaces and the installation of the parking meters. She believes the town used the pilot program as an excuse to bring in new things without actually consulting residents. An anonymous local has also taken to placing yellow signs near the spaces, implying there is a wealth gap between those against the spaces, and those in favor. One sign reads: 'Sorry your generational wealth can't protect you from angled Toyotas'. Another said: 'Diagonal parking isn't a bad idea, but letting wealth dictate urban planning is.' It isn't all anger over the new spaces however, with Currie Parnell, who works nearby at a music store, saying they've helped bring in customers to the store. Parnell said: 'We see a huge influx of business around festivals and July 4th. Foot traffic and car traffic picks up this time of year, so it really satisfies that demand.' The town had installed a parking garage only a few years ago, but in Parnell's view the angled spaces over a quicker 'more straightforward' solution. At a town hotel meeting on, fierce critics expressed their disdain for the parking spaces to officials. According to the Post, one local suggested that council members had a 'premanufactured positive bias' of the pilot and they were forcing through the spaces. Resident Erik Dalton added: 'Ninety percent of my residential neighborhood – which is two blocks, it's small – is against this. I don't know what more we can do to show you guys this.' Council member Geneva Shaunette was also accused of ethical misconduct for submitting her own positive feedback on the spaces. Shaunette lives nears the spaces, writing: 'I love the diagonal parking because I have only had to park on a side street once this entire summer. 'Otherwise, I'm able to park within 5 spaces of my front door. As a G permit holder, I have really felt the increase in space.' The town attorney made it clear that Shaunette was not breaching any code of conduct by giving her own opinion. Deputy town manager Hayden Brodowsky told the meeting that he would continue to collect data throughout the summer over the new spaces. According to Brodowsky, despite what some locals said, there have been no safety issues observed by authorities due to the new spaces. The town has changed in recent years into a playground for the one percent, with $20 million ranches, private hiking trails and a paparazzi free summer for celebs. With limited commercial flights, Telluride is perfect for private jets, which isn't a problem for its residents, including Oprah Winfrey, who owns four properties there. The upcoming arrival of a Four Seasons — the first five-star hotel and luxe condo development in over 15 years — is a sign of what's to come.
The Hill
21-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
The Marines are leaving Los Angeles
'With stability returning to Los Angeles, [Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth] has directed the redeployment of the 700 Marines whose presence sent a clear message: lawlessness will not be tolerated,' chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement to The Hill's sister outlet NewsNation. Parnell claimed the Marines' 'unmistakable presence' in the city was 'instrumental in restoring order and upholding the rule of law,' even as few of the service members remained in public view following the initial show of force in June. The Trump administration continues to scale back its military deployment in Los Angeles after President Trump ordered some 4,100 California National Guard troops and later the 700 Marines to the city to quell protests of raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The move was heavily criticized by California state officials for bypassing the consent of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who accused Trump of inflaming tensions with deployments he said were unnecessary. After protests largely died down across the city, service members found themselves with little to do, and last week Hegseth ordered half of some 4,000 remaining Guard members to return home. That leaves 2,000 in Los Angeles to continue with their role of protecting ICE agents as they conducted raids. Another 150 Guardsmen had earlier been allowed to leave the city to help fight wildfires in California. Newsom has continued to push for all deployed service members to leave the city, saying Trump has used them as 'political pawns.' Parnell did not say when the Marines would depart the city, but a defense official told The Washington Post they are set to return to the Twentynine Palms Base in the coming days. In a video posted to X 'unnecessary.'
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Afghanistan review could lead to change in promotions for NCOs, officers
The Pentagon's ongoing review into the U.S. military's withdrawal from Afghanistan could prompt the Defense Department to 'reform the way that we evaluate and promote young noncommissioned officers and young officers,' Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell told reporters recently. 'If you think back to my time in Afghanistan as a young commander, giving battle update briefs as a captain to my battalion commander, if I were constantly saying that my area of operations was a disaster, it didn't have the ammo or troops that I needed to accomplish the mission, the likelihood of me getting promoted was probably not great,' Parnell said Wednesday Pentagon news conference. 'So, how do we set the conditions in the [Defense] Department to create a sense of honesty where our officers are reporting what they believe to be accuracy — they're concerned about maybe their area of operations; they're concerned about the truth and, maybe, less about their careers.' Parnell added that his comments were not meant as an indictment of officers who served in Afghanistan. 'It's just the way that our system is constructed,' he said. In January 2020, John Sopko, then serving as special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, told lawmakers that the U.S. government had 'created an incentive to almost require people to lie' about progress in Afghanistan. 'I'm not going to name names, but I think everybody has that incentive to give happy talk — to show success,' Sopko told Task & Purpose at the time. 'Maybe it's human nature to do that. I mean most of the lying is lying to ourselves. We want to show success.' More than a year later, the Taliban captured Kabul on Aug. 15, 2021, marking the start of a chaotic evacuation of American citizens and Afghans who had worked for the U.S. government. Over two weeks, U.S. troops rescued more than 124,000 people. Thirteen service members and about 170 Afghans were killed in an Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bomb attack at Abbey Gate outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. On Wednesday, Parnell said the Defense Department review, which was announced on May 20. will look into key questions about the withdrawal, such as why U.S. forces withdrew from Bagram Airfield in July 2021. As a result, the evacuation the following month had to be conducted from the airport in Kabul, leaving the troops guarding Abbey Gate exposed, an investigation later found. Parnell also said that he believes the U.S. defeat in Vietnam during which Americans and Vietnamese were evacuated by helicopter from the U.S. embassy in Saigon, left an imprint on a generation of officers who later became generals. He noted that these leaders were in charge during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, in which the U.S. military had a clearly stated mission and American service members withdrew when the operation's goals had been accomplished. When those general officers retired, a lot of their institutional knowledge based on lessons from the pain of the Vietnam War was likely lost, Parnell said. 'Flash forward 10 years: 9/11 happens; 20 years of war in Iraq Afghanistan; and we find ourselves at the end of Afghan War in a remarkably similar situation that we were in in Vietnam,' Parnell said. 'So, the question that I have here, and that the department has, is what happened? How do we as a department make sure that something like in Vietnam and something there again that happened in Afghanistan never happens again?' The latest on Task & Purpose The Air Force fitness test may soon include 2-mile runs twice a year 'War Thunder' continues to live up to its reputation for OPSEC violations Guardsmen sent to LA are 130 miles east of the city doing drug busts Lightning Carriers: The Marines' secret weapon in the Pacific Pentagon releases details of 'Midnight Hammer' strikes against Iran Solve the daily Crossword
Boston Globe
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Marines will begin withdrawing from Los Angeles
'With stability returning to Los Angeles, the secretary has directed the redeployment of the 700 Marines whose presence sent a clear message: Lawlessness will not be tolerated,' Parnell said Monday in a statement, referring to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. 'Their rapid response, unwavering discipline, and unmistakable presence were instrumental in restoring order and upholding the rule of law. We're deeply grateful for their service, and for the strength and professionalism they brought to this mission.' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Democratic leaders in California have accused the Trump administration of provoking the protests by sending masked federal agents to car washes and other sites to detain immigrants, and then using the subsequent public outrage over the raids as a pretext for military action. Advertisement Since June, the troops have stood guard outside federal office buildings and have accompanied agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Border Patrol and other agencies during immigration raids. Pentagon officials estimated that the cost of deploying the Marines and National Guard soldiers would run to about $134 million. Advertisement California officials say the deployment violates federal law prohibiting the use of federal troops for domestic law enforcement, but an early attempt to halt the deployment through a court order was blocked by a federal appeals court. That appellate court ruled in June that the president had broad, though not 'unreviewable,' authority to send the U.S. military into American cities. A federal trial to determine whether the National Guard and Marines were used illegally in California is scheduled for next month. Federal authorities have called the deployment a response to the so-called sanctuary law in California, enacted during the first Trump administration. The law limits the role of local sheriffs' deputies and police officers in immigration enforcement, so that fear of deportation would not deter immigrants from reporting crimes. The law includes extensive exceptions that allow local law enforcement authorities to turn over noncitizens who have committed serious crimes to be deported by federal authorities. But the Trump administration has contended that California still places too many limits on cooperation between local law enforcement agencies and federal immigration authorities. The U.S. Department of Justice recently asked sheriffs across California to provide it with lists of inmates in state jails who are not U.S. citizens; doing so could potentially be a violation of the state's sanctuary law. At a congressional hearing last month, Democratic lawmakers grilled Hegseth about the troop deployment, calling it unlawful and excessive. 'The president's decision to call the National Guard troops to Los Angeles was premature, and the decision to deploy active-duty Marines as well is downright escalatory,' Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., told Hegseth. Advertisement Hegseth defended the deployment, telling lawmakers, 'We ought to be able to enforce immigration law in this country.' Those debates have loomed large over the military presence in Los Angeles. Critics of the deployment have noted, among other things, that the Marines and the National Guard — who are trained to shoot to kill on the battlefield — do not receive the extensive training in de-escalation techniques, crowd control and use of force that are core parts of local law enforcement training. Within the U.S. military, concerns about the optics of armed troops rolling into American cities have also limited what the deployment could accomplish. As a result, the use of the troops in the Los Angeles area has been heavily scrutinized and fraught with potential constitutional constraints. National Guard contingents were seen this month facing protesters in a field outside a cannabis farm in Ventura County as gunfire erupted. And they were observed sitting in trucks in an immigrant-heavy neighborhood of Los Angeles while immigration agents marched through an all-but-vacated MacArthur Park, to prove that they could do so. In interviews with The New York Times, members of the California National Guard said that morale has been low during the deployment, reenlistment rates were plummeting and more than 100 troops had sought counseling in a period of a few weeks. Six soldiers spoke on condition of anonymity because their federal orders forbade them from talking to the news media. In the tent city that was built to house the Guard troops on a small base in Los Alamitos, a suburb, soldiers said that several troops had been reassigned because they raised objections to the mission, and that few of the troops there had been sent off the base on assignments. Advertisement National Guard officials said that only about 400 of the 3,882 deployed Guard members had actually been sent on assignments away from the base. The military's Northern Command said this month that the troops overall had participated in slightly more than 200 operations in support of federal law enforcement agencies. 'We wake up to go to sleep,' one Guard member told the Times. The Marines, who have been based at a separate military facility nearby, have been used sparingly as well. Early in the deployment, on June 13, Marines briefly detained an Army veteran who was running an errand and was trying to enter a Veterans Affairs office at a federal building in Los Angeles. The veteran said the detention was brief and he was not bothered by it. Federal troops are rarely seen detaining U.S. civilians on American soil, even temporarily. Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles has compared the deployment to an 'armed occupation,' and Gov. Gavin Newsom has condemned it as 'a solution right now in search of a problem.' Both have called for the removal of all the deployed troops. This article originally appeared in .
