Cheap Treadmills Are Cheaply Made The only way fitness equipment manufacturers can make a profit on cheap treadmills is by loading them with poorly made parts and motors.
Limiting your shopping to cheap treadmills will doom you to finding, in a matter of months, that your machine's motor or electronic console is failing.
Given the short duration of the warranties on most cheap treadmills, you could end up with a useless and very large fitness machine hogging your living space until you can find someone to take it off your hands.
The only good reason for considering cheap treadmills is that you might not know exactly how dedicated you will remain to your workouts.
The idea of spending two or three thousand on a commercial quality machine which you may get tired of in a couple of months does not make much sense.
If you've only invested five hundred in a machine, on the other hand, you won't feel as foolish if you decide treadmill workouts aren't for you.
Buying a more expensive machine, however, may give you the incentive you need to stick with the program! What to Expect From Cheap Treadmills You can expect a minimum of features, which are one of the biggest factors in determining the price of a treadmill Adjustable inclines, voice coaches, and heart rate monitors are all very nice, but expensive.
You don't really need them unless you are a serious athlete training for competition.
You can also expect cheap treadmills to develop operational problems in a relatively short time, often in less than a year.
So before you buy any of the cheap treadmills you are considering, study the warranty on each of them.
The one which offers the longest protection on electronics and the motor is.
Finding Cheap Treadmills Before you head for your local fitness equipment store to look at their cheap treadmills, consider talking to the managers of the nearby gyms and fitness center s to see if they ever offer their used treadmills for sale.
While you'd be getting a machine which has seen significant use, it would also be a machine of commercial quality with lots of features.
And you won't be using it nearly as much as it was used in the gym, so it might have a considerable number of years ahead of it.
Or you might get lucky by looking for cheap treadmills in the local classified ads, being sold by people who dropped a bundle on them but lost interest in exercise after a couple of months.
In the end, however, cheap treadmills are cheap for a reason, and buying one is a gamble.