Treadmills, along with exercise bikes and home gyms, are one of the most popular pieces of fitness equipment purchased for weight loss and improved fitness.

Reasons to use treadmill as compared to other exercise equipments

1. Weight loss and improved fitness.

Treadmills have helped millions of people to achieve their weight loss and fitness goals and they may be able to help you too. Walking, jogging and running on a treadmill can help you burn a lot of excess calories and can improve the strength and health of your heart and lungs.
Walking at 5 kilometres per hour (3 miles per hour) burns nearly 8 kilojoules / 2 calories per kilo of body weight every half an hour. For a person weighing 100 kilos, that equates to 800 kilojoules or 200 calories every 30 minutes.
Jogging at 10 kilometres per hour (6 miles per hour) burns 21 kilojoules / 5 calories per kilo of body weight every half hour. For a person weighing 100 kilos, that equates to 2100 kilojoules or 500 calories every 30 minutes.
Walking and jogging on a treadmill is also great for raising your heart rate into the zones most appropriate for weight loss and fitness.

2. Treadmills can help prevent you from training too hard.

One of the most common mistakes people make when they first start exercising is to walk, jog or run too fast. Training too hard in the beginning of your walking or jogging program can lead to injuries and may encourage you to quit because you feel it’s too hard and not worth all the effort. By helping to regulate the speed at which you walk, jog and run, treadmills can help you avoid this common exercise mistake. Some treadmills are even sophisticated enough to adjust the speed of the walking belt by monitoring your heart rate.

What a great way to make sure you’re always training in the right heart rate zone!

3. You can make small adjustments as your fitness improves.

Because the speed of most treadmills can be adjusted in very small increments, treadmills are perfect for training at increasingly higher intensities once you’ve built a base level of fitness. Because making treadmills go a little faster or a little slower can be done with the touch of a button, they are also great for including interval training into your routine where you walk, jog and run at various speeds within the same workout.

4. A treadmill can be used at anytime.

One of the greatest benefits of owning a treadmill is that you can exercise when you want, day or night, hot or cold, sun or rain. Many of us today lead hectic lives and find it hard to fit exercise into our busy schedules. What we need is the ability to exercise when we want and for as long as we want.

Having a treadmill at home can be better than joining a gym in this respect because we don’t need to worry about gym opening and closing times and having to share our treadmill with a hundred other time-poor exercisers.

5. Make maximum use of your time.

Owning a treadmill allows you to get your daily exercise done while you’re doing other things, like watching your favourite TV show or listening to your favourite music. Watching TV while walking or jogging on a treadmill often makes your workout seem a lot shorter and even a little easier.

6. The whole family can use it to exercise.

One of the great things about having a treadmill at home is that the whole family can use it to lose weight and get fitter.Research shows that when the whole family has similar goals and is committed to losing weight together, each family member is more likely to succeed.

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