About this site
Written by Jamie Miller, Founder & EditorLast checked
We research treadmills and walking pads sold in the UK, and we tell you where every specification came from and how far to trust it.
Why this site exists in this form
Buying a treadmill online is unusually hard. You cannot try one, the specifications are inconsistent between the brand and the retailer, motor power is quoted two different ways, and the thing is heavy enough that returning it is genuinely painful. Most sites covering this market respond to that by sounding certain.
We would rather be useful than certain. Every figure here carries a mark showing whether it was measured, corroborated, taken from owner reports, copied from the manufacturer, or simply not established. That last one appears more often than you might expect, and we publish it rather than filling the gap.
What we cover
Treadmills and walking pads sold in the UK, at every price from a folding machine under £300 to a commercial-grade runner. We cover accessories and maintenance where they affect a buying decision. We do not cover exercise bikes, rowers or cross trainers, because covering a market properly means not covering four of them badly.
What we do not do
- We do not claim to have tested machines we have not tested. Today that is all of them, and the how we review page explains exactly what that means.
- We do not publish star ratings or scores out of ten.
- We do not accept payment for coverage, placement or a change to anything on a page.
- We do not use photographs and imply they are ours.
The site's history, since you may find traces of it
This domain published treadmill reviews for roughly a decade and then went offline. The previous version made claims of first-hand testing that we have found no evidence to support, including one sentence claiming personal use of a machine, reused word for word across six different products. None of that content has been carried across unexamined. Where an old page covered something still worth covering, it has been rewritten from scratch under the evidence rules above; where it did not, the URL now points somewhere useful instead.
Still to come on this page: the company details behind the site and the background of the person writing it. Those are being confirmed and will be published here rather than approximated in the meantime.
Getting in touch
Corrections are the most useful thing you can send us, particularly if you own one of these machines and a specification here is wrong. Contact us.