For hybrid & fitness racing
For hybrid & fitness racing, the two are close. Sled push rates slightly higher: more injury protection.
Treadmill run is easier to learn and fit in.
Both are good choices that build different things for hybrid & fitness racing, so a plan can use both.
The research score comes from these, scored by hand from the studies. Lifter scores appear once an exercise has 10 ratings. How scores work
Sled Push. The most-dreaded station. Practise it heavy.
Treadmill Run. Most of a race is running between stations. Practise it.
For hybrid & fitness racing, the two are close. Sled push rates slightly higher: more injury protection. Treadmill run is easier to learn and fit in. Both are good choices that build different things for hybrid & fitness racing, so a plan can use both.
About the same: both are easy to learn.
Sled push needs a sled, so for most people it’s a gym exercise. Treadmill run needs a treadmill, bike or stair machine, so for most people it’s a gym exercise.
Sled push: it rates Good for injury protection in our research rubric, against Fair for treadmill run.