The treadmill or as many people call it, the dreadmill doesn t typically get a lot of love. But thanks to a recent viral TikTok trend, this fitness tool is receiving tons of hype.
The trend, known as the 12-3-30 workout, is soothingly straightforward: You set your treadmill to an incline of 12 and a speed of 3 miles per hour and then walk for 30 minutes. The concept originated from social media influencer Lauren Giraldo, who shared it on YouTube in 2019 and again on TikTok in November 2020, where a video explaining the workout racked up nearly 12 million views and more than 2.7 million likes (and counting).
The ‘12-3-30’ Treadmill Routine Is Crazy-Popular on TikTok But Is It Actually a Good Workout? Health.com 1/28/2021
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The treadmill or as many people call it, the dreadmill doesn t typically get a lot of love. But thanks to a recent viral TikTok trend, this fitness tool is receiving tons of hype.
The trend, known as the 12-3-30 workout, is soothingly straightforward: You set your treadmill to an incline of 12 and a speed of 3 miles per hour and then walk for 30 minutes. The concept originated from social media influencer Lauren Giraldo, who shared it on YouTube in 2019 and again on TikTok in November 2020, where a video explaining the workout racked up nearly 12 million views and more than 2.7 million likes (and counting).
A good workout should never feel easy the whole point of exercise is to challenge yourself enough so your body has to adapt to get stronger, faster, fitter. But no matter how tough any workout is, there s always a subjective element to it, depending on your mood and mindset at the time, exercise can feel harder or easier than it should.
This winter, it s not just the colder, darker days that make it hard to push yourself through a workout. After nearly a year of living through the COVID-19 pandemic, most people are dealing with serious mental fatigue something that negatively affects performance by making exercise feel harder, according to a review of 11 studies published in the journal