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CNN Saturday Morning News

Feeling Fit: Treading Your Way to Good Health

Aired June 02, 2001 - 08:36   ET

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LIZ WHITE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If you're ready to sweat...

UNIDENTIFIED INSTRUCTOR: Recover, please. Awesome job.

WHITE: ... and ready for a challenge, try treading.

UNIDENTIFIED INSTRUCTOR: Treading is a comprehensive workout done on a treadmill and it coaches you from your warm-up all the way to the cool down.

LIZ WHITE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Ellen Apet (ph) teaches the class at the Boston Athletic Club. The group hits the road running or walking and everyone goes at their own pace.

UNIDENTIFIED INSTRUCTOR: You can be next to somebody who's running an eight minute mile pace and you may be walking a 15 minute mile pace and every person is doing the best that they can do and you have someone rooting for you, which is awfully exciting.

LIZ WHITE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Ellen called this particular workout double trouble, where she coaches her class up hills and along flat roads. Her students interact with the treadmill by constantly readjusting what they're doing.

UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT: Instead of hoping on the treadmill and getting bored and being on what I call the dreadmill, it's fun.

UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT: I've lost a lot of weight over the past four months and mentally working out is always good for your head. It clears you up. It's like taking a Valium.

UNIDENTIFIED INSTRUCTOR: Stay with it everybody. That's it.

LIZ WHITE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Coach Apet says if you're stuck in a treadmill rut where you do the same easy workout every time, change what you're doing so that every minute takes you to a greater level of fitness.

I'm Liz White (ph) for "Feeling Fit."

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