How much $$ for a decent treadmill?

[Julian]

Anyone know at what price point you can get a good treadmill? I really can't afford $3000 but at most I could go $1500 including taxes...is it even worth it? I know that before they used to say that most treadmills were junk if you didn't spend around 3k, hopefully things have changed.

 

[homer]

Treadmill

Julian:

Check out your local Play it Again Sports for a gently used one. After watching the lovely Mrs, and talking with other disgruntled husbands, the concensus is after about 3-4 weeks of occasional use it eventually becomes a $1500 clothes rack. Sooner or later we snap and lug that freakin backbreaking device to our local PAS and get 1/3 back of what we paid for it, and maybe some serious person gets a good deal.

Homer

 

[SeasonedOne]

Treadmill

I had the same issue with wanting a health-club-quality elliptical in my home. I did a lot of research, and the ones from Sole seemed to straddle the middle ground. High quality, durable and pretty much exactly in your price range - for both Treadmills and Ellipticals. I bought my elliptical at a place called The Treadmill Factory (Mississauga?) and am very pleased with it.