Treadmill vs. Real Hill: Which is harder to run

2025-04-10

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Thanks to Galilean relativity it should be just as hard to run on an inclined treadmill as it is to run on a hill of the same incline. But you don't gain gravitational potential energy on a treadmill, so can it really be true?

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