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What's
So Important About The Consumer Reports
Treadmill Best Buy?
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by: Jon
Butt
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Every
buyer wants to know the Consumer Reports treadmill
Best Buy. Consumer Reports is perhaps the most
respected of consumer product testing
organizations due to their independent and
nonprofit status and their expert testing. Their
consumer report rating treadmills can be found in
publication and online at ConsumerReports.org.
Consumer Reports grades on an overall score to
determine its Best treadmill and also suggests
four treadmill Best Buy models that combine good
value with quality.
The Best Treadmill For You
With product information, tips on buying, and a
discussion on testing results, Consumer Reports
most recent treadmill rating in January 2005
tested 22 treadmills from about 16 manufacturers,
including Proform, Nordic Track, Weslo, and Image,
all Icon Health and Fitness Companies, as well as
Landice, True, Precor, Horizon, Life Fitness,
Vision Fitness, Schwinn, Smooth Fitness, Keys
Fitness, Trimline, Spirit, and Nautilus.
Consumer Reports does not break down its treadmill
reports by price range, as is often the case in
other organizations' reviews, so their Best
treadmill, at almost $3000, is not likely to be
the best treadmill for you, but they do suggest
four Best Buys, all in the $1300-1800 price range.
Ratings are provided for all tested models,
however, and that's where you should begin.
A cautionary note: Consumer Reports was
disappointed in the number of machines that had
problems in this treadmill rating--an ominous
change from their last treadmill reports in
February 2004. With the exception of higher-priced
models with the kind of warranties you should
expect, they recommend an extended warranty.
That's something they almost never do.
About the author:
Jon Butt's www.the-treadmill-guide.comis
one of the web's most popular independent resource
sites advising how to select the ideal treadmill,
where to get the biggest online discounts for new
and used treadmills, which workout programs will
work for you, plus how to take care of you and
your treadmill so it can take care of you
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