Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of more expensive treadmills, no auto-incline, no speakers, no jogging map on-screen, or ipod connection. Which is good because that's not what I was looking for. There isn't a great deal out there on the internet but I did as much research on this as I could, found a few vids on youtube and the company website also, read thru the user guide. I found numerous positive reviews and a handful of negative reviews. On balance this sounded great so I went ahead and took the plunge. Amazon had the best deal and I managed to get free shipping with a prime trial. Delivery took about 10 days by UPS, and as luck would have it I was at home and looking out the window when UPS arrived, I helped the two delivery people carry from the truck to my front porch, this is a big box, 149lbs, sheepishly I asked if they wanted to help me take it inside, they 'didn't hear me' and were back in the truck before I could blink! So I lugged it up the step through my front door and then down the basement stairs, I'm not the fittest but survived, would not recommend most people doing this! Get someone young and fit to help you manoeuver the box. Unpacking wasn't too difficult, and setting it up took me about an hour, mainly because I read and re-read instructions to the nth degree before doing stuff so take twice as long as most might, it all went easily anyway, there really isn't much you have to do, and the instructions are easy to follow. My wife asked me to get her a treadmill for Christmas. Initially I had gone to the local sporting goods store and looked at their treadmills, huge great behemoths of machines, they had maybe 10 different ones on display. I didn't like the look of any of them, the designs all seemed outdated and garish, and just very big and overly plastic with features I knew my wife would never use. A couple looked ok and simpler but had a 250lb weight limit. Well my wife is less than that but I figured that 250lbs limit meant that it wasn't exactly built very well, what do heavier people get? surely they need a treadmill more than most, and all of them had a 1 yr guarantee on the motor... so I started looking for something better made and found this. The company's website won me over, they somehow seemed to actually care, I believed they meant well, and the product design showed a lot of thought, a higher weight limit, the name 'exerpeutic', the 'walking fitness' label made sense, I've always thought to myself why run when you can walk, you travel the same distance eventually and burn the same calories getting there, but what do I know, that's probably why I'm fat! This machine has a shorter belt because you are supposed to walk on it, I guess you could jog but it isn't made for sprinting anyway so you don't need a long stride. I liked the idea of the longer than usual arms. I imagine older people would find this very reassuring. The speed goes from 0.5 miles per hour, to 4.0 mph in 0.1 mph increments. 2.5 mph is a fairly brisk walk for us. So I was impressed by the design and thought that the company had put into the design. I managed to get it all setup and ready for when she came home from work, I think initially she was happy but underwhelmed, it doesn't look fancy, and the only 'complaint' she had was the lack of auto incline. A month later though it's definitely grown on her more, I think she appreciates the simplicity of it, it does what it says on the tin, it gets her sweating, it isn't complicated, it isn't intimating, it's friendly to people that aren't fitness geeks but just want to do more exercise. You don't have to sit there pushing buttons for 5 minutes to start your workout. She uses it 3 or 4 times a week. I think it will last for years, there isn't much to go wrong. We work out together, I have my elliptical next to her treadmill and we watch tv while doing it. We're both very happy with this purchase and highly recommend it.