If you are running up a hill in the real world, it’s harder than running on a flat surface because you need to do all the work required to lift your body mass vertically. The work is based on the force (your weight) times the distance travelled (the vertical distance).
But if you are on a treadmill, no matter what “incline” setting you put it at, your body mass isn’t going anywhere. I don’t see how there’s any more work being done than just running normally on a treadmill. Is running at a 3% incline on a treadmill calorically equivalent to running up a 3% hill?
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It’s not exactly the same you need a greater incline to achieve the same effect as going up hill while off a treadmill. I can’t recall what the actual difference was however you can train going uphill on a treadmill you just need to set it to a higher incline than you might actually face outside.
If you set your treadmill to the extreme’s it makes itself very apparent that the incline makes a significant difference.
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