Treadmill Incline Calculator
Calculate how treadmill incline or outdoor hills affect your effort and equivalent pace. Understand the true training benefit of hill workouts and adjust your target paces accordingly.
Treadmill Max Speed
12.0
mph
Target Effort Speed
15.0
mph
incline% = (target − base) ÷ (0.2289 × e^(0.0133 × base))
(empirical effort-equivalence fit — not a published formula)Set the target effort speed above your treadmill's max and the incline you need appears here instantly. Or start from an example:
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