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Best Home Treadmills for 1000euros or under
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29-03-2011 9:46pm#1
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Hi All!! Really want to buy a treadmill for home running. I have already looked at other threads out there but didnt get anything that will help me make a good purchase!
Would really appreciate peoples insight into the purchasing of a good one!!
thanks in advance!
We got one of the Pro-Form treadmills in Elverys in 2009 for €650 odd. Something like this. http://www.elverys.ie/Product/Proform-500-ZLT-Treadmill/209781/0000000020
I'm very happy with it so far, I gave it a right pounding over the winter training for a marathon, so was doing hills, interval training, long runs up to 15 miles, pretty much everything you would do outside. It's got a max speed of 18km/h which is about as fast as you'd need really. It has loads of pre-set programmes, incline, etc, etc. and you can plug the ipod or whatever into it if you want.
The track is wide and long on it, which for me is a must. On the slight negative side, it can get quite noisy above 15km/h, not just the motor but like a metallic bang with each footfall. Maybe my tiles are slightly uneven beneath it so it might be my own fault on this. Also, on very long sessions, the treadmill actually just stops to a complete hault at 100 minutes and you've to turn it off and start a new session to continue.
When you're buying a treadmill, you should get one with a max speed that is 30% or more greater than the majority of your training. For example, if you do most of your training at 14km/h, a 18km/h treadmill is preferred in order to not burn out the motor. If you're constantly doing 14km/h on a machine with a 16km/h max speed, you'll likely burn it out.0 -
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