There are a variety of home exercise equipments, such as abs equipments, exercise balls, exercise bikes, yoga equipments, elliptical trainer, treadmills, exercise bands and etc in the market today for us to choose. The most common and family-friendly would be the treadmills series. Most would prefer the electric or motorized treadmill that is less straining where manual treadmill requires one to pull the belt using their own footsteps.

Electric Treadmill For Home Use

I would prefer to buy an electric or a motorized treadmill as well compared to other home exercise equipments. One main reason is that an electric treadmill is easier to use and it is suitable for the whole family. I guess everyone who is physically whole have no problem with running, jogging or walking. With an electric treadmill, we could set the speed to one that suits us, according to our individual body fitness and preference. Thus, everyone could use it without having to worry that it might be too heavy, or too fast, or require certain specific skill or knowledge.

Apart from that, I would also choose an electric treadmill as my home exercise equipment as the workout done on a treadmill is more whole than most of the home exercise equipments that focus on parts of the body. For example, dumbbells are for building biceps muscles, abs equipments are for the abs and etc. With running being the basic workout on a treadmill, I could work the whole body, although more strain goes the feet. Anyway, an electric treadmill would be the more ‘wholesome’ equipment as compared to the rest.

In addition, with an electric treadmill, the workouts can be set according to the physical fitness and heart beat. Therefore, I would not have to worry as when I do running or jogging in the field that I might run too fast or too long or not enough for me. I would be guided with the help of workout buttons on the treadmill.

Owning an electric treadmill at home makes workout more convenient. I do not need to worry about the weather or having no company when going for jogging in the field. I do not need to worry about showing off the imperfect body or less professional workout approach to a bunch of strangers in the gym. I could workout at my own ease and relaxed mode at home with the pleasure of a roof (no worries about weather) and perhaps some entertainment (music or TV) having no worries about no company to join for the workout.

Therefore, when choosing to own home exercise equipment, I would prefer the electric treadmill that gives me a more ‘wholesome’ workout, that gives me the pleasure of doing workout at ease and relaxed at home with no worries of weather or embarrassment.

I’ve always seen people running on treadmill and it seems so easy and relaxed. They could watch TV, eat and talk with others at the same time. I never really grow much interest to an electric treadmill as I think that it is just another one of those over-promoted workout equipment. I could go to the stadium or even the park or even at my house and do the same workout, what’s so difficult about walking around at the same place anyway.

Running On Electric Treadmill

However, after a first encounter with an electric treadmill, I definitely changed my mind about electric treadmill. Working on an electric treadmill is quite unlike running or jogging or walking on the track. It strains the muscle more than merely running on our own and you tend to get more tired on an electric treadmill than the running tracks. Thus, it creates better results.

For that one time at a friend’s house, everyone got bored and got on board an electric treadmill to have some running fun. I saw that they all had a great time but when they eventually stepped down, they were all panting and feeling their loud heart beat, even for those who only ran for ten minutes. So, it got me curious and aroused my interest in trying.

I got on the machine and started to run, well, wanting to run though. However, it was kind of hard and my friend told me to tune up the speed. Then I figured that the conveyor belt was moving too slow and since I was walking faster than it, I was actually pulling it rather than it helped pushed me. So I tuned the speed up slowly, and picking up my running pace slowly too. The higher the speed, the smoother I ran, and the lighter I felt. Imagine running while flying, wouldn’t it be light? Well, it felt something like that.

I ran for ten minutes then slowed down and eventually stopped. Though only for ten minutes, the effect was obvious. Though the running was light and easy, but when I stopped, I could feel the tiredness and the strain and my heart was beating real fast and hard as if I had been running for half and hour.

Then, eventually I realized that though I didn’t feel tired at the time of running, I was actually using up more energy than I expected. The machine helped to start off the workout slowly then pick up pace then slowed down slowly, which is the typical way of doing workout where one start off with warm up activity then ends with cooling down exercise. Once starting to run, one has to complete all three stages for the whole workout to come to an end. In addition, while running, I only thought of stopping when I really felt the tiredness. Thus, unconsciously I had run more and used more energy than I normally would when jogging in the park.

For an amateur jogger like me, an electric treadmill would definitely help in my workout as I don’t get to do running simply but doing in stages. In addition, I wouldn’t have much excuse to not commit to jogging once I own one at home.