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Depends on where you live. A hilly area can kick your ass a lot harder than a treadmill, but my current neighborhood is flat and it compares pretty evenly to a

• dasil003 16y ago
  It does not. Running on the ground you push yourself forward. On a treadmill the amount of work you are doing can vary quite a bit by technique (ie. how much contact you are making with the treadmill) because you are not actually propelling yourself.
  • smackfu 16y ago
    A treadmill makes me run at a pace that is faster than I would run outside though.
    • dasil003 16y ago
      Sure, your benefit is still proportional to your effort, but if you look at the odometer and think that you've ran 10 miles just because 10 miles of belt passed underneath you, then you really need to run outside once in a while.
  • jongraehl 16y ago
    Crazy. Mark a dot on the treadmill track. How is the person moving relative to that dot? How is the air in the room moving relative to that dot? That's basically all that can distinguish between running at constant speed on a treadmill vs. on level (non-treadmill) ground. If you're running 8mph on a treadmill, it's like running 8mph on level ground, with an 8mph tailwind. How do you fail so badly at physics?
    • AdamGravy 16y ago
      lol
    • dasil003 16y ago
      The fact that you are upvoted more than me shows me that too many people spend too much theorizing and not enough time actually trying it out. Go spend some time on a treadmill and some time running outside. It very well could be that if you had a perfect tailwind (which doesn't happen) then it would be similar, but I wouldn't bet on it (the surfaces are different for starters). My point was that running on a treadmill is not the same, and that's irrefutable.