Looking for treadmill recommendations

[chrisl72]

Hi everyone,

Calling all treadmill owners!

I'm in the market for a treadmill and would be grateful for your recommendations. I've a budget where I'm willing to spend closer to £500 than £1000.

In particular, any experience of treadmills with auto-incline? Is it worth it? Do you use it? Is it reliable?

Also any recommendation as to good suppliers?

Thank you

[beth_f Graduate10]

Hello chrisl72

We purchased a treadmill in 2020 just as they were announcing lockdown in a slight panic thinking that we wouldn't be allowed out to run.

Anyway it is a ProForm 505 CST folding treadmill. It cost around £600 and purchased from an online company called Sweatband. From what I remember it arrived about 3 days after ordering.

It has speed up to 18km/h and incline up to 10. It came with a free years subscription with ifit (basically connect a phone or iPad to it and you can do runs that are in the library which will also automatically inclines depending where you are running). I didn't bother to renew the subscription once the year was out as I barely used that element.

It also folds up so doesn't take up masses of room. It is heavy though having just moved it recently to my home office in the garden.

They have probably discontinued that model now but have been pleased with it and have found that I have used it more than I thought I would (although I still prefer being outdoors where possible) - I sustained a knee injury last year and started back at C25K last Christmas on the treadmill just to get going again. Also use it on days when I am short of time and I will either do a Nike Run Club run for Treadmill or just do a quick 10 min speed run.

Hope that helps - let me know if you have any more questions.

[chrisl72 Graduate10 in reply to beth_f]

Thank you beth_f , that is very helpful. I will check out Sweatband and see what the situation is with that model or its successor.

[chrisl72 Graduate10 in reply to beth_f]

Hello again beth_f , just following up here to say that I have just pulled the trigger on a treadmill from Sweatband - will update again once I've got it!

[beth_f Graduate10 in reply to chrisl72]

Ah brilliant chrisl72 . Look forward to hearing all about it.