A funny thing happened to me on the way to nowhere (treadmill)

So I do this thing on the treadmill at the gym... I do 25-45 minutes walking fast, depending on how long I have (my workouts are sometimes at lunch)

But as I lose weight, I would like to run a bit. My fitness level isn't there, so I am working toward it by doing 4-walk 1-run cycles.... I basically run every minute that ends in 4 or 9, using the time meter on the tradmill as an easy indicator of when to break into a trot. As time goes on, I will increase my times, or change to a 3-walk 2-run ratio. It's a common way for non runners to approach running. Sometimes I feel like throwing an extra minute in there, but basically I follow this routine and each week consider upping it. I've been doing this for two weeks, and it's worked quite well.

A woman who works in the gym walked up as I was running and started pushing my incline up, my speed down, and told me to stop running and use the incline instead to increase my heart rate. She came out of nowhere, reached accross me and started pressing buttons, and basically took over my activity without my asking her to get involved.

She was not someone I had worked with or talked to, and she had no idea what my program was, what my level of health was, and yet she punched my buttons and stopped my run.

She then got a calculator and started lecturing me about heart rate and it's relation to muscle or fat burn. Information I was aware of and had my own agenda on. First, she didn't know my heart rate, but once she did she calculated it as perhaps 5-10 beats higher than she liked and suggeted I slow down. It is true when you get a touch higher than your fat burning zone, you burn more muscle and less fat, but when you intensify your workout you also burn more... period. We all have different goals. For some of us intensity is what we need, want and like. Some days I do intensity, other days I do endurance. That day I was doing what I planned on doing, and was - I think - interfered with.

I was polite (and sweaty and windy) and didn't want to debate with her. I appreciate she probably meant well. I know they probably train gym personel to intervene when they see someone who might need help, but I thinking clicking my buttons and forcing me to alter my routine, unsolicited, was a bit too much of a good thing.

How would you react to uninvited intervention by the employees in a gym, especially if they came to you in the middle of a run, or while raising a barbell, putting up a jump shot and interfered with that you are doing?

Would you welcome that, or react as I did... with just a bit of ire.

Thu. Jul 27, 6:36pm

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