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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!

The belt should be of good quality. You don’t want the belt to slip or stick while you’re walking or running on your treadmill or worse fall apart altogether.

Make sure that the controls on your treadmill are easy to use and understand. If you’re running or walking at a certain pace and you get tired and want to slow the pace down you don’t want to have to try to figure out how to do that or you try to do it and the machine doesn’t respond, that can be very dangerous.

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.