Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

When I decided to buy a treadmill instead of going back to the gym I agonized over all the options for weeks. I'm extremely happy I settled on this one and I feel like I owe it the review I would have liked to read when I was still shopping around. For reference, I am a 5'8" 180 pound beginning runner, and I started off using this very intermittently but have been consistently running 2 miles most days for the past 6 months. What I cared about in a treadmill was finding the intersection of the cheapest option that I could find that still felt sturdy and reliable and I think I nailed it. This thing surprised me by not feeling even a little flimsy right out of the box and after 8 months total use there is no noticeable wear, despite even occasionally being used by my 6'3" 220 pound partner, who also reports that it feels extremely solid. Here are some other things you might find useful to know: - If you typically do well with putting together Ikea furniture you will have no problem with this, it's all (included) allen wrenches, pictographs, and a couple bolts, and took maybe half an hour to assemble on my own. - I wanted something that went up to at least 10mph so I would have some room to improve, but honestly I haven't really leveled up past 6mph so I can't say for sure that this actually gets that fast. I've taken it up to 7mph max with no issues. - This is very no frills, just start, stop, faster, slower, and 2mph 4mph and 6mph preset buttons. There are theoretically several interval programs but I personally haven't used them, the preset buttons have been my friends. If you just want a thing that you can run or walk on and you don't care how many buttons it has, this is the treadmill for you. - The heart monitor is completely useless, like not even remotely accurate. I wear a fitbit so I don't care at all about that, but if the pulse reading is a selling point for you just know that this treadmill might as well not have a heart monitor. - There is the option for a very slight amount of incline, which I scoffed at initially. I basically decided to keep it at the max incline all the time since it seemed negligible, but I recently ran on a hotel treadmill and was actually shocked how different it felt to run completely level, so you know, it's not nothing. - This is in an area of my house where I can keep it down all the time, but it does fold and unfold very easily and to what seems like a reasonable size. - As a person who is fairly clueless about treadmill care I have used belt lubricant on this twice since I initially set it up (so three times total) at times when I arbitrarily felt like maybe it might be the right time for it. This may or may not be a selling point about this treadmill's durability, I will let you be the judge. - I have also slightly adjusted the belt twice because it looked like it was maybe going a little off center (purely visual diagnosis, no problems with how it was running) which was a simple two step process that required the same (included) allen wrench. - If I hadn't done the last two pieces of maintenance I suspect that it would still be running fine, since both were done just cause I felt like maybe I should, but who knows, they could have also made all the difference. Either way, personally that seems like a reasonable amount of maintenance over 8 months, but you might disagree. tl;dr If you are a beginning runner who just wants a super basic treadmill that won't break the bank, can grow with you on your running journey, and doesn't feel even a tiny bit like you are going to break any part of it, this one here is a winner.