What Manual Treadmils Are For



Posted: Saturday, October 31, 2009

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Unlike motorized treadmills, manual treadmills don't have motors. The belt is turned purely by the user's stride. Runners usually prefer motorized treadmills, where they set the speed and are forced to keep up with it. Therefore, serious runners tend to consider the less expensive manual treadmills as second rate.

Oh how fine it would be to see the world other than through our own eyes! It is true that manual treadmills are far simpler and far less expensive. Indeed, the young and healthy critics probably feel quite superior to those who those who buy a manual treadmill because cannot run ten miles per day. They likely don't consider that a $2,000 treadmill is unaffordable for many people. It may not have occurred to them that many people are elderly, frail, or otherwise different from the average treadmill buyer. It probably didn't occur to them that some people cannot even leave their home and that, for these people, any exercise is good exercise.

Indeed, it is for these non-typical users that manual treadmills are designed. Most of the buyers of manual treadmills fit this description. It is for these users that an inexpensive manual treadmill provides a lifeline to a more vigorous life. Manual treadmills allow users to walk briskly, in the privacy of his own home.

Using a manual treadmill does feel fundamentally different from running on a motorized treadmill. On a motorized treadmill, the need to keep up with the turning belt requires an effort that is forced by the machine. Once you get going, you just have to keep up. However, on a manual treadmill, the need to move originates solely with the user. Therefore, there is, in some sense, more motivation required to keep going.

The young and healthy runners will not always be so. They too will be thrilled to move their own body weight in their own room on their own treadmill better than they did the day before. They will use it because going feels good and right. They will get on it and go, and keep going, because they know that to stop is to stop forever.

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Robert Braun knows his treadmills! For more information about
treadmills
, see http://www.Treadmill-World.com
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