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How can I add incline to a treadmill activity?

Sahil Govender
over 4 years ago

1) When I complete a treadmill activity, I sometimes use an incline.

Garmin Connect (treadmill activity) does not have an option to enter the incline (in % gradient or whatever unit.

It would be much appreciated if an 'Activity Metric' be added where one could manually enter the average incline or incline that was run on.

2) Furthermore, 'Elevation Gain' is irrelevant for a treadmill activity - but incline could be integrated with this too.

3) A problem I typically experience when using an incline is that the calories calculated on my Garmin does not account for the incline.

For instance, today I ran 5km on my treadmill at 10 km/hr on a 2% grad incline. My garmin calculated calories to be 400. But my treadmill calculated calories to be 500.

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To end off, I really do wish to contribute to the Garmin community. I really hope that logging activities becomes more complete by customizing activities as for the above.

  • 0 over 4 years ago
    Sahil Govender said:
    A problem I typically experience when using an incline is that the calories calculated on my Garmin does not account for the incline.

    A setting for the incline would not change anything on it, since the Calories are calculated exclusively based on the HR and the HR Variability (+ the personal data for calculating your RMR, and the Activity Class). The type of the activity, the incline, elevation gain, speed, or any other parameters of the activity have no direct influence on the result. They influence the result only indirecty by increasing your HR, and the Training Stress (reducing the HR Variability).

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    Change the training results!

    using a no-motorized treadmill and Stryd, I have to set +5% of inclination on the Garmin watch data field to balance the no-motorized treadmill respect the road environment.

    Garmin then "think" that my performances are lower than the real because the power used (Stryd sensor) and HR measures (HMR-pro) are too high for the belt speed... but I am running like on a slope