Customer Reviews

Life Fitness Club Series Treadmill

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The most important feature to me on a treadmill is footplant comfort. This nails it. It as comfortable of a treadmill I have used. If I run enough miles on a cheap treadmill, my Achilles and knees ache. However, there is more to a solid machine.

The speed eases up smoothly and sensibly. It never jerks. Similarly, the incline is never abrupt. Very nice feature.

The heart rate monitor, the one on the handle bar, is sometimes inaccurate when compared to my Timex T5J031 Unisex Digital Fitness Heart Rate Monitor Watch. While it is only a few beats off, I expect a machine at this level to be better.

The buttons are an issue, reacting in a finicky, frustrating way. My make-do solution is, instead of fumbling with typing in numbers while running, I punch one of the walk-jog-run buttons, which takes me to a given speed. From there, I use the faster-slower button.

Entering my weight and speed and incline and it shows my calories burned. For me, this is just a curiosity, but it shows consistent data.

99% of the time, all I use it for is long long distance, up to 10 miles or so. For this, I am completely happy. There are plenty of other features I never use (the HeartSync workouts, for example). The buttons are a hassle, but once set, I'm good to run.

Anthony Trendl
http://runnersdilemma.blogspot.com

The actual mechanism that runs the treadmill is super-solid, but the manufacturer LifeFitness seems to have a problem making touch-screen buttons. When you push the buttons on the LED, some of them won't work; others will work after extremely hard pushing. It's a constant annoyance, say when you're running and want to start slowing down. You're forced to use the more conventional buttons on that central handlebar thingie.

Not my imagination, either. My gym has about 15 of these, and I've probably used all of them over the months since they got them. They all have this problem. Same goes for LifeFitness's elliptical trainers and stationary bikes: they all exhibit functionality problems with the on-screen buttons.

I'd love to see the company respond to this review. Are they gonna argue that I don't know how to push a button?