Hi there,
Welcome to Treadmill Reviews HQ. I’ve reviewed many treadmills plus elliptical trainers, exercise bikes, and a couple vibration machines.
My Recommended Treadmills and Elliptical Trainers:
| Price* | Treadmills | Elliptical Trainers |
| Under $600 | ||
| $600 – $1,000 |
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| $1,000 – $2,000 | ||
| With TV |
*Prices may change without notice.
I hope these recommendations give you some guidance as you search for the perfect treadmill!
How to Use Treadmill Reviews HQ
We strive to make it easy for you to find the elliptical, exercise bike, home gym and treadmill reviews you wish to read. To meet that end, we offer a variety of search options.
You can search Treadmill Reviews HQ as follows:
- Use the pull down menus above to search by equipment and brand.
- Use the Advanced Search Form to the right. This enables you to search multiple or single variables at the same time.
- Do a text search in the text search box at the top right. Every word, title, and category is searched so the text search box alone is fairly comprehensive.
- Choose equipment type in the menu to the right consisting of: “All Treadmill Reviews”, “All Elliptical Reviews”, “All Exercise Bike Reviews”, and “All Exercise Bike Reviews”.
Treadmill Resources
Check out the Buying Guides (at the bottom of this page) for more ideas about getting the right fitness equipment for you.
Once you’ve read some reviews, you may want to know where to you can shop and buy the type of fitness equipment you’re looking for on your short list, then check out a good list of fitness equipment stores.
Before purchasing a treadmill or elliptical, or any fitness equipment, be sure to make the necessary treadmill and elliptical shipping policy inquiries (these shipping concerns apply equally to exercise bikes and home gyms) and don’t forget to get a mat to place under your fitness equipment purchase. Why? Read the 3 Reasons to Buy a Treadmill Mat for Your Treadmill (which also apply to other fitness equipment purchases).
I love running, walking, and cycling outside, but I find I do about half of my running, walking, and cycling workouts (I starting running in early 2010, but have walked and hiked for years) indoors over the course of a year. I’m not one to brave nasty weather.
I’ve been an avid walker for years using treadmills often because of the incline it offers, ellipticals for the full body, low impact workout, and exercise bikes for indoor cycling. This past year I took up running with a real zeal. I’m absolutely loving running now – both outside and on a treadmill.
Fitness and a healthy lifestyle is a passion of mine and has been for years. During my adolescence and in my twenties, I was really into weight lifting. Now esconced in my thirties, I do less weight lifting and more cardio. I consider myself a crosstrainer.
My primary cardio workout as of this past year is running – outside and on treadmills. I complement my cardio with weight lifting, elliptical workouts, cycling, and yoga. I’m a fitness crosstrainer.
I also love the internet and sharing my passions and knowledge. Hence the creation of Treadmill Reviews HQ. Treadmill Reviews HQ is my outlet to share what I learn about fitness equipment and my training routines in general.
Why publish Treadmill Reviews HQ and What We Do
Exercise is integral in my life. I love it and I love learning about it, and now I get to write about exercise and the equipment I use. In order to write quality and informative elliptical, home gym, exercise bike, and treadmill reviews, we read up on each product and program as much as we can. We use the equipment and programs when feasible. Our aim is to give you the important information in an easy-to-read format. We think you’ll find our grid-style fitness equipment reviews informative and easy-to-read.
With a treadmill you can run, walk uphill, run uphill, walk slowly, sprint, intervals, design weight loss workouts … you name it, you can create a great workout. Besides, walking and running are two very natural movements our bodies perform. Exercising our bodies in that way simply makes sense to me. If you’re looking for some creative ways to use a treadmill, check out 20 Plus Super Creative Treadmill Workouts.
With an elliptical trainer you get a full body cardio and resistance workout that is low impact. I like ellipticals because they offer variety.
Exercise bikes come in a variety of styles – upright, recumbent, and spinning. Cycling is a terrific training activity on its own or as a complement to other exercise activities.
Home gyms these days are well-built and offer full-body resistance training in the comfort of your own home.
Whether you opt for cardio equipment such as a treadmill, elliptical trainer, and/or an exercise bike, or resistance training equipment such as a home gym or an in-home workout program such as P90X, you will enjoy the convenience of working out in your home when you want and for as long as you want.
11 Criteria for Quality Fitness Equipment and Treadmill Reviews
If you’ve been looking for treadmill ratings and reviews, you no doubt found dozens of treadmill review websites. You’ve probably also noticed these treadmill rating and review sites vary in style, content, layout, format, and detail. One treadmill review site may be found useful by one person, yet not helpful by another person. It’s subjective.
That said, after publishing a treadmill review site (Treadmill Reviews HQ), I thought I’d throw my 10 cents worth of ideas about what makes for great treadmill reviews and a great treadmill review website.
My 11 Signs of Quality Treadmill Ratings Review:
Just a note, for the sake of simplicity, only the word treadmill is set out below – but the same applies to all the fitness equipment reviewed at Treadmill Reviews HQ.
1. The treadmill ratings reviews are easy to read. What I mean by this is you can glean the important information at-a-glance. The fact is, people (me included) like to quickly scan when reading on the internet. Great treadmill review features include tables, charts, many headings, and bullet points – all of which enable readers to understand the information quickly.
2. The treadmill reviews are well-written. Plenty of writing on the Internet is badly done. Great writing takes a long time. Of course treadmill reviews aren’t literature, but it’s nice to read a cogent and succinct review that reads well.
3. The ratings reviews are informative. Spare the fluff (or at least minimize it); great treadmill reviews should present the key information front and center. There should be plenty of solid information including features, benefits, specifications, and shipping, warranty, and where to buy information. I like overviews at the top so a reader can tell right away whether a particular treadmill being reviewed is for her or him.
4. The reviews are objective. It presents both the good and bad. There are few, if any, treadmills that don’t warrant some negative comments. If the treadmill is perfect in all respects, then it’s likely very expensive. That said, treadmill reviews must be mindful of the price. You can’t expect a 3.5 horsepower motor, 62 inch long running surface, and a mounted television for $499.
5. It’s a stylish website … or at least it looks good and is pleasing to the eye. Granted, this is very subjective; what I like you may not like. However, some graphics, large enough font, decent spacing, and not too much clutter are a great start. At the end of the day, it’s not hard to make a decent-looking website that make visiting a pleasure.
6. There are numerous treadmill ratings reviews to compare in one website. If a treadmill reviews site has 10 reviews – all reviewing one brand, that site is not particularly helpful. The point of a treadmill reviews website is to collate lots of information in one place so prospective treadmill buyers can do the bulk of their research in one place.
7. The individual treadmill reviews provide several discernable links to all the online sellers. The Web is about linking to other websites and treadmill reviews are no different. It’s no fun to be interested in a treadmill only to have a hard time finding the link to the treadmill store or vendor. Links should be plentiful and readily apparent.
8. The website and treadmill reviews avoid technical language. If technical language is necessary, it explains or defines the technical language.
9. The individual treadmill reviews are not obvious sales pages or sales articles. When all treadmill reviews in a treadmill review website excessively praise every treadmill with language such as “great”, “outstanding”, “best”, etc., then those reviews are not particularly helpful. It’s true some treadmills are exceptional, but there are almost features or components that could be improved.
10. The ratings website provides a contact form. We do and we think it’s important our readers have the option to contact us to ask questions. We love hearing from readers. Note, that just because there is no contact method does not mean the reviews are bad. Choosing to enable our readers to contact us was a decision we made for customer service purposes.
11. The nature of any relationship between the website publisher and treadmill vendors / manufacturers is disclosed. The fact is most treadmill review websites and articles are affiliates or perhaps employed by the treadmill vendors/manufacturers. Full disclosure: Treadmill Reviews HQ is not employed by any treadmill vendor or manufacturer, but we have an affiliate arrangement with each treadmill vendor / manufacturer we link to.
About affiliate links. Affiliate links mean when a visitor clicks into a website and purchases something, the publisher of that link may receive a sales commission. It’s important for you to know that affiliate links, in themselves, do not result in a higher purchase price directly. What do I mean by this? If the links on this site were not affiliate links, the price you pay is the same as if the links are affiliate links.
However, naturally, in an indirect manner, affiliate links (i.e. the sales commissions) do increase the cost of treadmills and fitness equipment generally because it’s a cost of the sale. That said, treadmills sold online are generally cheaper than those sold in traditional retail stores despite affiliate links – the sales commission of affiliate links is less of a cost than the cost of maintaining a full retail store (i.e. brick and mortar).
You may notice Treadmill Reviews HQ offers more than just treadmill ratings and reviews. I’ve decided to expand into being a broad health and fitness website – but my focus is treadmill and fitness equipment reviews. I’m also happy to offer fitness equipment buying guides, articles explaining some technical aspects about fitness equipment, and health in general.
Does Treadmill Reviews HQ (this site) meet all 11 points perfectly? No, but I’m striving to exceed these points as best as we can. Considering Treadmill Reviews HQ launched in April 2010, I’m confident the site is moving toward being a premium treadmill reviews site.
Thanks for visiting Treadmill Reviews HQ. If you have any questions or comments about the exercise bike, elliptical, home gym and treadmill reviews on this site or fitness in general, please contact me.
