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howardvas63 Posts: 1 Joined: 2004/04/01	2004/04/01, 09:05 PM My calves tighten and burn when using the treadmill at 3.0 speed and the pain is unbarable. It is preventing me to maintain a higher speed to maintain my cardio work out. It seems to take less then 5 minutes upon speed increase. Once I stop the pain and burning goes away. What can I do to decrease the tightness and burning while increasing speeds on the treadmill. any suggestions.
Carivan Posts: 8,542 Joined: 2002/01/20	2004/04/01, 09:18 PM Welcome to the site Howardvas63. You should be doing some leg exercises to build the stegnth in your quads, calfs and glutes to help the movement with your cardio. If you have an elipticle trainer at your gym you should try that and see how you feel. -------------- "A will finds a way, failure is not an option" Ivan carivan@freetrainers.com Montreal Canada
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2004/04/02, 08:57 AM Yes, sounds like you need to ease into your cardio program. Try the elliptical, and maybe warm-up or cool-down on the traedmill. You may gradually incraese your time on the traedmill, but try walking until it starts to burn, then switching to the elliptical or bike. The same thing happens to me when i walk too fast with my dog, if I slow down and keep walking using my whole leg from the hip and rolling through my foot, it eventually eases off. Good luck! -------------- If you fall down seven times, get up eight.