treadmill question, reply appreciated

l don't know if this question has been asked before, l have recently started walking on the treadmill with the incline set on 10 and as a beginner it is kicking my butt, l can hear my thighs screaming at me.

My question is, does increasing the incline on the treadmill then put it in the strength training  or resistance type exercise. Thanks for you reply.

I don't know the answer to your question, but it sounds like you are putting yourself at risk for an injury. Beginners should always start at the lowest level and work up from that point. Obviously, if you are already fit from other exercise, you might move up more quickly, but starting at a highly challenging level is not good for you. You won't likely have a sudden injury (like a sprain), but one of the much more difficult to heal injuries resulting from overtraining that comes on slowly as soreness that lingers and finally becomes pain that is always there while working out, or even when not working out.

maybe you should back off and start over, after taking some time off in case an injury to a tendon or ligament is already in progress. Good luck.

i usually use the treadmill at an incline but i just consider it cardio. While i know that the added incline helps to build more muscle i don't think of it in the same way as i would doing leg weight machines or other weight lifting exercises for my legs. It burns more calories and your legs will get more toned so i just think of it kinda as a bonus in my cardio routine. 

I'm not sure I understand your question, but I think the answer is "no."

First off, listen to mkculs. The jump straight to ten is ill-advised.

Second, a high incline doesn't make a treadmill into a strength/resistance machine for the somewhat straightforward reason that your body's not resisting. You're not directly taxing the muscles. You're still walking/running. The process of you needing to do that is still primarily aerobic in nature. Yes, it will build your muscles faster than it would on a lower setting (well, that sort of thing is often a Devil's game, in that slight successes pay off more), but that's not the primacy of what's going on.

It does, however, make it a more difficult cardio exercise, and anyone should set it to a 1% incline, to make up for the lack of air resistance.