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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.
Pages built around a figure
- 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.
Guides to start with
Treadmill Belt Slipping: Why It Happens and How to Fix It
A treadmill belt that hesitates or lurches under your foot is usually tension, sometimes lubrication, occasionally a worn drive belt.
How to Lubricate a Treadmill Belt (and What Not to Use)
How to lubricate a treadmill belt safely, why WD-40 is the wrong product for it despite being the most-asked question, and how often it actually needs doing.
Treadmill Workouts: Structured Sessions for Walking, Intervals and Running
Treadmill workouts that use what a treadmill actually gives you over walking outside: exact pace and incline control.
Treadmill Knee Pain: What's Mechanical and When to See a Doctor
What treadmill running does mechanically to your knees, what buying decisions genuinely affect it, and where the answer is a doctor's, not a website's.
Manual vs Motorised Treadmill: Which Should You Buy?
How manual and motorised treadmills actually differ, which suits walking, running and small flats, and the trade-offs nobody mentions until you own one.
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.