NordictrackT Series: Perfect Treadmills for Home Use, Walking Treadmill with Incline, Bluetooth Enabled, 136 kg User Capacity

After many hours spent weighing up the pros and cons of various Treadmills I took the plunge with the NordicTrack T Series 9 and im certainly happy I did, First impressions on delivery was oh what have I done as the box and packaging was far greater than I imagined and my mind suddenly started racing as to how a technophobe like me was going to put it together – Once the box was opened though the elements and manual surprisingly even made sense to me, so of I went and started construction. You will need 2 people for certain elements but in the main you can construct it on your own and we completed the task in around 2 hours. I counted that as the first work out !As for the treadmill itself it’s a sturdy piece of kit and is as detailed,The running track is soft underfoot and the inclines, speed adjustment and fans etc are all so very easy to use. With two cup holders and a large screen you have all you need.Last night I set up the ifit account and completed a couple of the workouts – The inclines move perfectly in step with the video, which I was very impressed with (On some models they seem to be either in front or behind the screen) and there is such a wide range of choice you will not fail to find something that will keep you occupied whilst doing youre workout. I also managed to add my prime membership to it without any fuss.The App was rather more tricky though and as up to now I haven’t been able to connect that via my phone with Bluetooth although I did my headphones so more a phone issue than product issue,All in all im majorly impressed with the treadmill and would go as far as to say I prefer it to the versions in the Gym I used,Really really well built product and does all it says it will – Its a 5 star product.

Another reviewer summed this treadmill up perfectly...it is a beast!I've had several treadmills over the past few years and this is by far the best quality one I've ever used. It is however also quite a large one, the only larger ones I've used have been in gyms! So make sure you have ample space. It does fold up, but even in that position you won't gain back much floor space.The pros are that you get a larger (width) running track than cheaper ones sold on amazon, also it accommodates my ageing rugby player frame (being 6ft 2in and 127kg) with ease. The controls are super easy to use, as i'm re-doing the couch to 5K app the one touch speed increase/decrease controls make transitions from walk to run very easy. It also has a very decent suspension system to take some of the shock out of the experience for us more novice runners!It is a very sturdy machine, no wobble/rattle etc like i've had on cheaper machines. Putting it together is ideally a two person job and a set of spanners or preferably a socket set will speed the construction up no end!It does come with a free trial to iFit, so you can sit an iPad on the console and turn the whole experience into a peloton type experience with class trainers and videos etc. Which sounds fun, not tried it as it's not my thing but it's there if you want it.Overall, a great piece of kit that is more like the treadmills at a commercial gym than the ones you'd see on the TV shopping channels. Yes, it is double the price of others on Amazon but I think that is justified by the quality and features.

Positive: Heavy duty and sturdy. Fairly clear instructions. Belt is smooth and easy to push by hand, which gives me confidence in the quality compared to the cheaper treadmill we're replacing.Negative. Wastes paper: full instruction manuals for multiple languages included. Built quality issues, such as panels that don't fit properly with ugly gaps (see photo) and pre-tapped bolt holes that are not properly drilled out, so the bolt doesn't fit (see photo). I had to use my drill and a large metal bit to clear the entrance to two of the bolt holes. Quite fiddly to assemble with some really small black screws and plastic inserts that you have to piece together underneath the treadmill in the dark, against a black background, so set-up took several hours. The registration and software set-up is not well thought out - there's clearly cruft from years of changes to the products and backends - so there's a code to scan stuck on the screen (but in the UK you have to send an email), then there are QR codes to scan in the software. Lot of questions asked about height, weight and workout goals, which get repeated on the device and in the app, AND on signing up, despite all apparently being connected. This treadmill has some smart features to adapt based on pulse, etc, but - sadly - it has no way to measure pulse built in, so it needs a separate heart monitor. I would like it to use my Apple Watch but I don't think it can. In theory, they recently added syncing with Apple Health, but it hasn't synced between the iFit app and my Apple Health after a workout; no data has been sent. Lastly, the speaker emits a loud whining electronic noise, like RF interference, which smacks of cheap electronics. Fortunately, the treadmill drowns that out when it's running.Overall, I think this will be a good treadmill for basic use (i.e. manually operating the speed and incline), but there's a lot of extra stuff here which is far from cohesive or pleasant to start using.