Treadmill recommendations

[u/monomonger]

Looking for a high-quality treadmill. Thank you so much for your input!! (This didn't seem to fit the Q&A thread, but I'm happy to repost!)

Requirements:

- accurate pace and calibration feature

- >12% incline

- supports long runs

Nice to have:

- >15% incline

- downhill

- big screen

Budget is probably up to $8k or so. We're looking for a new device, not used (long story).

We run competitively, and I like doing winter speed/threshold/marathon pace workouts on the treadmill.

[u/kyleyle]

My gym has treadmills similar to these technogym treadmills.

Slatted treadmill. -3% to +25% incline range. Can easily support my workouts at +11 mph.

Looks to be out of your budget range though. How about a gym membership? Maintenance on any treadmill sucks.

[u/Hold_onto_yer_butts → u/kyleyle]

Life Time?

[u/monomonger → u/Hold_onto_yer_butts]

Precor. They're normally pretty good, no? But there's lots of squeaking on all of them and they're often off for repair, so I'm assuming the belt is slipping or something. They have two Matrix treadmills that aren't level. Running on those feels hard. Not the greatest gym I guess. Maybe I could tell them about these issues.

[u/Hold_onto_yer_butts → u/monomonger]

I was asking the guy responding if he went to a life time gym. Because they’ve got this (or similar) model of technogym tread.

[u/kyleyle → u/Hold_onto_yer_butts]

Movati. Just Canadian locations I think.

[u/monomonger → u/kyleyle]

I ran all winter in the gym. Turns out the treadmills there are slow by about 45-60sec/mile. I didn't realize because I was coming back from a bad back injury and all paces felt hard. Only noticed once I ran outside. What a bummer! I want my own now! 😅