Update: Attention, electric shock !! || For beginners and Walker acceptable, almost unusable for advanced skiers

Now also I will (again) haunted by the electric shocks already described by other reviewers. Namely, in contact both hand pulse monitor and the plastic housing of the training computer. This can also be difficult to avoid, because due to the non-variable programs (see later in the review) I have to manually change the speed of all training. (Namely, at least after the warm-up and cool-down before, in four out of five cases, but also in between now and then). And to get wiped every time a, I do not find too ererfreulich.

This effect occurred immediately after the building already on, but then he added. Now he has a few days back - without that I would have changed something. Also not only sporadically but regularly. The ground wire is securely connected to the earth, the treadmill itself stands on a non-conductive non-slip mat, and the clothes / shoes that I wear, are normal sports equipment. The discharges are then not only easy, but do already hurt orderly - quite apart from the shock, when one does not expect such a shock.

Good people, with this treadmill I wanted something for, not against doing my health ... - reduction from 3 to 2 stars.

We continue with the original review.

After a long break from sports about two years I have gone back this fall with the skating. I would not describe as advanced skiers, but even as ambitious returners. In the last two months I've ever run on your mood between three and six times a week; and there may eventually times but winter is coming and I do not want to walk on snow and ice, I have gained the treadmill for my hobby room. What in my opinion, makes running compared to many other sports as pleasant is the fact that you just made as beginners, quick success. So I run, for example by only two and a half months of training 10 km without major effort and pain loose in an hour (though outside and not on the treadmill).

And this is also the point at which this treadmill sets clear limits.

But first a few general things that I noticed. After the usual uncomplicated delivery of Amazon.com (although this time by Hermes) went to the building. With few handles the treadmill within half an hour was up and running. The training computer should really be screwed with four screws to the appropriate adapter plate, however, was the hole so inaccurate (deviation more than 1 cm!) That I could fix it with two screws. Looks a bit stupid, but keeps and fulfills its purpose. The operation is relatively quiet from the engine. However, it is advisable to place a mat under the treadmill, because on my absolutely flat laminate flooring slip it in a few minutes. The size of the tread is just about ok. I measure 174 cm tall and have correspondingly narrow, so it still goes.

The adjustable speeds are adjustable in manual mode up to 12 km / h (corresponding to 5 min / km) in 0,1 km / h steps. With regard to the pre-programmed run programs' NAJA. Within this program, the previously set exercise duration, for example 30 minutes, divided into a plurality of equally long splits. The maximum speed for these splits, however, is 8 km / h (corresponding to 7:30 min / km). This is a rate that is quite okay for beginners, in the advanced but may work out more than the basic endurance 1. The maximum speed of 12 km / h too slow for advanced, in order for example. To train an interval running.

What I also do not like about the computer is that you have no ability to set your own program with individual speeds and duration of individual splits. Why do I miss that, I will explain later in this digression training goals.

Negative me is the training computer still noticed that the heart rate monitor is sensational unusable. The number that is applied to the respective electrodes by laying on of hands, is displayed, may not be accurate. During my EGK-accurate heart rate monitor, for example, constant 145 indicates the pulse displayed on the computer sometimes jumps from 70 to 90 and then back to 78 and 85. It does not matter, whatever is displayed, is simply wrong, and light years away from reality , Since you would rather have to refrain entirely on. The ability to connect a chest strap does not exist.

Also next door is the integrated calorie counter. If I had to have burned after a workout realistically about 600 kilocalories, are displayed on the screen of the computer just 300. No matter how you twist and turn it, it must simply be more.

Although the engine is relatively quiet, I like it anyway not so good, because it reacts very slowly. I would like, for example, the speed of 12 to 8 km / h reduce that I walked by then already 150 meters, it takes so long. That would be a little faster feasible without it too abruptly comes to a deceleration.

Although it is not strictly necessary, a device for tripping or hooking a beverage bottle would have been very nice, but there's unfortunately not.

In order to explain my vote closer, I describe briefly below two training goals with the appropriate training method. Who does not want to know exactly, it skips easily and has only missed the details.

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Short digression Training objectives:

For tends untrained beginners is a common training goal to be able to run for 30 minutes in continuous operation without a break. This training is, by the so-called basic endurance to strengthen 1 (GA1). Particular attention is given to the heart rate, which should be within certain limits, 'namely roughly between 60 and 70% of the maximum pulse. The maximum heart rate is calculated by the simple formula 220-age. For example, I am 30 years old, therefore my maximum heart rate is 190. In other words, my GA1 band is 114-133 beats per minute. The are reached relatively quickly, with beginners mostly already when walking or when changing between running and walking. Who does not have a heart rate monitor, it acknowledges the fact that he can talk quite relaxed and without effort while running. A breathing (inhalation or exhalation) is performed in every four steps, so for example, one of four steps and then exhale four steps. With fewer steps the pulse is clearly too high. When you train so progress can be identified quickly, and already in the fourth or fifth training you can clearly see how it is less strenuous.

Advanced who want to do more than anything to do 'only' for their health and overall fitness that have GA1 very well under control. For those who are no longer a question of creating the distance 10 km at all, but also to improve the time and prepare the body for competitive speed, another training applies. In this case, the GA2 is trained, this band is from 80 to 90% of the maximum pulse. For me it would be as 152-171 beats per minute. One possibility is, for example, the interval training. This one runs at different speeds in multiple splits. This looks, for example, so that you are after a certain warm-up 1:30 minutes full Lotte gas and then regenerated in smooth running 1:00; then one and a half minutes at full throttle, then again for one minute and slowly reduce the heart rate.

There is also a transitional stage GA 1/2, but which I will not elaborate on the review here.
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How well the treadmill is therefore suitable for what kind of training?
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For beginners who want to do just a little bit for the overall fitness:
(+) Change Several pre-set training programs h speed 1-8 km / non-variable in steps
(+) Option, the speed, the workout time and the route set free
(O) relatively narrow and short treadmill. How useful it is will depend on body size, step size, etc. from running technique.
(O) with a few extras, such as no support for a drink or an MP3 player
(-) And Heart Rate Monitors Calorie Counter much too vague, for example, to complete a targeted fat burning workout without additional equipment

For advanced users, which is not enough to have a minimum level of fitness, but also for the speed and time play a role:
(O). For GA1 and relaxed continuous operation in order Only intermediate sprint to 12 km / h.
(-) At higher speeds the treadmill for further steps is too short
(-) To drink while running something, without stepping on the edge and to stumble, it is too narrow.
(-) With a training of more than half an hour to forty-five minutes, it is advisable just in between a drink 'lack of support you have to park it somewhere else.
(-) And Heart Rate Monitors Calorie Counter absolutely useless, essential for specific training heart rate monitor with chest strap
(-) No ability to create an individual training program
(-) Interval training is hardly possible because the motor to slowly adjust the selected speed

Bottom line, I find the treadmill worthy of himself for not more than two stars. But if you want to include the relatively low price with a third star in it.

As an ambitious returners I'm personally a little disappointed with the treadmill. Although I did not expect much for the price, but a little more, it should have been already.