
How To Optimize Steep Running With Rodger Kram PhD | Koopcast Episode 69
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Do You Know How to Make a Treadmill?
If you take a regular treadmill and you incline it too steeply, um, the, you'll ruin the motor. The motor on a treadmill is designed to make it go. It's not designed to slow it down. We realized we had to put a load on the treadmill on the motor. And so we have an extra like belt pulley and we hang weights, uh, over the, over the belt pulleyso that the motor can maintain a constant speed. So don't DIY it unless you have a biomechanics team behind you assisting you with the process.
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