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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Single dad with two kids young kids so I do a lot of treadmill runs. I found a lot of runners like to gatekeep what a “real run” is. I’ve found a lot of correlation between running on a treadmill and running outside. Though nothing really replicates the skills you need to develop for technical trial running. While I prefer doing my hill training inside you’re much better doing it on a treadmill than not doing one at all.
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