Is the Treadmill or Your Watch More Accurate on How Far You've Run?
Outdoors, smartwatches do a great job of telling you how far you ran or walked. Indoors, they often disagree with the readout on the gym’s treadmill. Which leaves a lot of us wondering—should we trust the treadmill, or the watch?
- ▪Outdoors, smartwatches do a great job of telling you how far you ran or walked.
- ▪Indoors, they often disagree with the readout on the gym’s treadmill.
- ▪Which leaves a lot of us wondering—should we trust the treadmill, or the watch?
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| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:30:00 +0000 |
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Outdoors, smartwatches do a great job of telling you how far you ran or walked. Indoors, they often disagree with the readout on the gym’s treadmill. Which leaves a lot of us wondering—should we trust the treadmill, or the watch? I won't make you wait: The answer to this question is the treadmill. While a watch guesses at your speed based on wrist movements, the treadmill will always have a better idea than the watch of what your feet are doing. But I don’t blame you for doubting everything you see on a gym machine’s readout. After all, their calorie counts are notoriously inaccurate.How treadmills determine distanceWhenever we’re evaluating accuracy, it’s important to know whether a device is measuring something directly, or interpreting data to make a guess.
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