Understanding Percent Incline in the Stryd Treadmill Experience

The Stryd Mobile App Treadmill Experience offers the ability to build structured workout segments with assigned percent inclines so that your power reflects uphill running on a treadmill.

Stryd utilizes percent grade as our measure incline. Percent grade is determined by the number of vertical feet that are gained over 100 horizontal feet. As an example, a 10% grade on a treadmill means that the runner would gain 10 vertical feet as they ran 100 horizontal feet:

It should be noted that this is not the same as degrees of an angle. A 10 degree angle is substantially steeper than a 10% incline. A 100% grade is equal to a 45 degree angle (100 vertical feet covered over 100 horizontal feet.