Treadmill and walking pad reviews, with sources
Written by Jamie Miller, Founder & EditorLast checked
We grade the evidence, not the treadmill. Every specification on this site states where it came from and when it was checked — a manufacturer listing, a retailer page, owner reviews, or (where we say so) nothing we could verify. We do not claim to have tested products we have not tested.
- 18Products covered
- 11Brands covered
- 182Specifications sourced
- 0Graded A so far
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- Treadmills
Motorised treadmills for home use: motor ratings, deck length, incline, folding.
- Walking pads
Slim under-desk pads for adding steps to a working day.
- Folding treadmills
What actually folds small, and what "foldable" quietly does not mean.
- Brands
Every brand we hold sourced product records for.
- Calculators
Treadmill speed to pace, calories burned, incline and running costs.
Popular pages
- 5walking pads sourcedUnder-desk treadmillPads slim enough to live under a desk, and what they will do once one is there.
- 10folding treadmills assessedBest folding treadmill UKWhich of them fold down far enough to matter, ranked on measured folded depth.
- 182kg, the highest ceiling we holdBest treadmill for overweight beginnersMachines that state a user weight rating, and what the rating is actually worth.
- 0of 18 publish a decibel figureBest quiet treadmill UKThe one specification the whole category leaves out, and what helps in a flat instead.
- 35speeds, 3 to 20 km/hTreadmill pace chartBelt speed against pace per kilometre and per mile, every half step, no calculator.
- 6km/h, the ceiling on every padWalking pad vs treadmillWhere the two categories separate, and which of them suits the thing you want to do.
Popular guides
- Fix itTreadmill won't turn onThe checks in order, starting with the two that are not the machine.
- Fix itTreadmill belt slippingTelling tension from lubrication from a worn drive belt, and when to stop.
- Fix itLubricating a treadmill beltWhat to use, how much, how often, and the silicone that ruins a deck.
- GuideTreadmill workoutsThree sessions built around exact pace and incline, the two things a belt gives you.
- GuideTreadmill knee painWhat is mechanical, what a purchase can change, and where the answer is a doctor.
- CompareManual or motorised?Two different machines sharing a name, and which job each one is for.
Every page on the site, including the other nine troubleshooting pages.
Brands we cover
A brand appears here once we hold at least one of its products with specifications we can trace to a named source. The number under each name is how many that is.
- JTX6 products
- Reebok2 products
- WalkingPad2 products
- DeerRun1 product
- Echelon1 product
- Horizon1 product
- JLL1 product
- NordicTrack1 product
- ProForm1 product
- Taurus1 product
- UREVO1 product
3 further brands have a page here with nothing sourced behind them yet, and they are marked that way on the full brand index.
How we grade what we publish
18 products across 11 brands so far, each specification marked against the same five grades — never a star rating standing in for evidence.