Saw them at Dick’s Sporting Goods today, and they looked pretty nice. I like the feature of being able to trace a route in google maps and upload it to the treadmill as a run course. The wifi model would probably be enough, but they also have ones with screens/web browsers.
anyone use/have these or know of any opinions on them?
John
To be honest, I love the one’s I’ve tried. Hopefully the store lets you demo, our store does, and you’ll see what I mean. The screen might be overkill but who knows when you’re on a treadmill for a long time in the winter. The e42(I think this is it?) gets down to 3:45 mile pace, so you can program surges and such at high rates of speed to try to teach your body to run fast.
I bought a used one for $400 and love it. The HR grip doesn’t work but I don’t care. I use mine nearly every day during the winter and I’m moving into my third year with it. Great investment. Mine goes as fast as sub 5 min miles but I’ve only attempted that once or twice.
From what I understand they are built by the Icon people (Nordi Track, Pro Form). Not commercial grade but good enough for my needs.
Did you decide on a treadmill? I was looking at the recent Epic models, but there don’t seem to be many people on here with one and the online review at Dick’s were not very good (although they mostly complained about issues not wholly related to the treadmill like shipping and ifit subscriptions. I’d love to get your thoughts on it if you decided to buy one. Thanks.
Saw them at Dick’s Sporting Goods today, and they looked pretty nice. I like the feature of being able to trace a route in google maps and upload it to the treadmill as a run course. The wifi model would probably be enough, but they also have ones with screens/web browsers.
anyone use/have these or know of any opinions on them?
John
Just a heads up - I haven’t used it, but I did ask on several forums, and the ‘i-fit’ google maps thing, while it SHOULD be a killer app that makes one treadmill better than all the others just for the maps feature alone, has been pretty much universally panned by users. I haven’t seen a single positive review about it, and there are thousands of people who have used it. Not one. Buyer beware.
Saw them at Dick’s Sporting Goods today, and they looked pretty nice. I like the feature of being able to trace a route in google maps and upload it to the treadmill as a run course. The wifi model would probably be enough, but they also have ones with screens/web browsers.
anyone use/have these or know of any opinions on them?
John
Just a heads up - I haven’t used it, but I did ask on several forums, and the ‘i-fit’ google maps thing, while it SHOULD be a killer app that makes one treadmill better than all the others just for the maps feature alone, has been pretty much universally panned by users. I haven’t seen a single positive review about it, and there are thousands of people who have used it. Not one. Buyer beware.
Yeah, that’s kind of what I’ve been seeing. That’s too bad, because the Epic model is also the only treadmill I’ve ever seen that does decline as well as the incline.
John
Thanks for the heads up. That’s really too bad. It seems like a great concept to me.
Saw them at Dick’s Sporting Goods today, and they looked pretty nice. I like the feature of being able to trace a route in google maps and upload it to the treadmill as a run course. The wifi model would probably be enough, but they also have ones with screens/web browsers.
anyone use/have these or know of any opinions on them?
John
Just a heads up - I haven’t used it, but I did ask on several forums, and the ‘i-fit’ google maps thing, while it SHOULD be a killer app that makes one treadmill better than all the others just for the maps feature alone, has been pretty much universally panned by users. I haven’t seen a single positive review about it, and there are thousands of people who have used it. Not one. Buyer beware.
Yeah, that’s kind of what I’ve been seeing. That’s too bad, because the Epic model is also the only treadmill I’ve ever seen that does decline as well as the incline.
John
I still wonder why the treadmill industry doesn’t get their !!* together and finally put together a worthy TM that has good onboard electronics that can interface with a computer wirelessly.
It’s still a total drag to make interval workouts even on the best treadmills, with the button pushing across a small clunky screen, and not one of them can do the simple task of moving the incline to an elevation profile (it really shouldn’t be hard at all). I’d even be ok with doing USB card transfers for course profile info, but nobody can even pull that off.
The hardware on the TM is far beyond the point of limiting. A 3.0hp $1000 TM will generally wear YOU out well before you wear it out. The area where the need to improve is the electronics, and given that most TMs already have preprogrammed courses varying speed & elevation, it seems like only a small task to make software that allows users to EASILY import or create workouts and map profiles.
If I were in need of starting a new business, I’d kickstarter the dang thing myself. I’d consider a $1000 treadmill with this type of software far superior to a $5000 treadmill without it.
As it stands, I’ve been pretty happy with my Sole F80, but even it is woefully inadequate with the workout entry, as well as the buttons which are NOT programmable for speed. (So getting to a 6:40 mile takes a lot of button presses.)