Treadmills Item ID: #76Horizon Fitness T101 Treadmill
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Item DescriptionHorizon treadmills are all about one thing – quality. Quality suspension and deck systems to help protect your body; best-in-class motors that keep going strong for years to come; and meaningful, motivating programming to help you meet your goals. At Horizon, we carefully design each treadmill to give you the comfort, control and convenience you need to succeed. Horizon treadmills use large, heavy frames, making them more solid and stable than competitors’. The Horizon T101 offers a comfortable beginning – durability and value rolled into an attractive design. Item Reviews5 Responses to “Horizon Fitness T101 Treadmill”Leave a Reply |
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Not a bad economy model. The speakers are good. It has nice features for an intermediate type of fitness person. The cooling fan could be a little stronger but it’s nice to have that. It’s a bit noisy when it’s running, but for the price it’s a very good bargain. Pleased with my purchase
My wife can walk or run on it without a problem. I can walk on it with no issue. But when I try to run, say at 5 mph or so, it shakes pretty bad. I’m about 200 lbs.
Also, the instructions state that the belt comes factory set for the tension and centered, but then they require you to loosen the belt to grease it. Was very difficult to get the belt back to the way it is suppose to be, and I’m still not sure it’s right.
Just bought this off Amazon. Delivery was quick and free! Installation is real easy. About 45 minutes, I did ask my son to help with mounting the console. It wasn’t heavy but sure is easier to align with extra hands. These are what I like about this treadmill:
1) Price – not the least inexpensive but with life time warranty I feel it is money well spend.
2) Easy installation, 4 bolts to mount left and right arms, 4 additional bolts for the console and that’s it!
3) Motor seems sturdy, up to 10 mph. Average noise as a motor would. Fast enough for most folks?
4) Really like the incline feature to add more workout, up to 10% incline and whisper quiet operation.
5) Fold up and down easily with built-in lift.
6) Good size walking/jogging area.
7) MP3 player hookup comes handy, plus headphone plug for private listening.
I really don’t have too many complains with this treadmill. Like other reviewers said since it is newer model, hopefully will holds up well over time? By the way, about lubing the belt. It is not too bad. I will definitely put some tape marking on the tension bolts, so it would be easier the next time. I didn’t do it but still took about 10 minutes or so to get the belt center. I would recommend it for someone like myself with limited budget. I personally can’t justify spending over a grand or more for a treadmill. Don’t expect too many bells and whistles, other just a solid workout treadmill that can I dare say gym-like? Would give 5 stars if the treadmill holds up over use as time will tell!
I’m a very large person who needs to get exercise, but going outside to walk most days is horribly unpleasant for one reason or another. I’ve wanted a treadmill for a long time, but the “good ones” always seemed really expensive. I am incredibly jazzed now that I have this treadmill because it’s very solid, runs great, is pretty quiet, and has most of the “bells and whistles” I wanted but thought I couldn’t afford.
As I said, I’m very large. I am actually a few pounds over the weight limit stated for this machine but since I am having weight-loss surgery very soon, it didn’t make sense for me to spend around $200 more to get the next-tier-up model when in a few weeks I should be several pounds lighter. I cannot really run for very long because it is physically quite difficult, but the short jog I took to test how well the treadmill holds up went great. I walk on the treadmill daily and find it very enjoyable. The motor does a great job of keeping things smooth without being loud (I have it in a fairly empty room with laminate floors and it’s not much louder than, say a box fan on medium.) I have no reservations about the quality or durability of the mysterious inner-workings of my treadmill. The fact that Horizon backs it with an awesome warranty is just icing.
As I said earlier, the best part is that I got extra bells and whistles, like the fan and MP3 player input & speakers that I always wanted. I listen to audiobooks on my iPod through the speakers (which are plenty good enough for me — not Bose quality obviously, but definitely loud enough and no worse than say stock iPod earbuds either.) The fan is pretty good, but I am a little disappointed that the grill is fixed — I am a little too short for the fan to blow on my face unless I walk waaaaay up at the front of the treadmill where my feet almost step on the motor housing. I may have to find a way to jerry-rig it where I can direct the airflow at me instead of a foot above my head.
The display is kind of plain and doesn’t have all the fancy tracking stuff that a lot of higher end treadmills have. But it tells me all I need to know, which is how long I’ve been exercising, how far I’ve walked, my heartrate, current speed & inclination. If I wind up using my treadmill so much that I wear it out after a couple of years, I’d probably go ahead and spend more to get one with a bit more interesting interactive-y stuff, but since I’ve got a garage full of exercise equipment gone horribly unused, I figured I’d start a bit more modestly and work up from there, so I’m not too torn up about it.
The inclination works very smoothly, incidentally, although I have only played with it to see how it works and haven’t incorporated it into my workouts yet. It makes it very challenging but I already have enough challenge just working out every day.
The only a few drawbacks, apart from my being too short for the immovable fan grill:
When I first turned it on, the display blinked constantly. I checked the connections and turned it on and off a few times and it was still blinking constantly, which was really distracting when trying to exercise. After a day of both me and my husband wiggling connections, turning it on and off and unplugging it, it fixed itself right after I emailed customer service to ask if it was supposed to blink. It hasn’t done it since, but I wonder how many people just assume it’s supposed to be flashing and didn’t stumble across the magical voodoo wire-wiggling switch-flipping combination we did to get it operating normally.
Secondly, the belt lubricating procedure is difficult, annoying and nerve-wracking. I don’t get why they send you a factory tensioned belt, as the manual says, then tell you to immediately un-tension the belt fully and lubricate it. My husband and I did our best to equally un-tension both sides of the belt and keep count of how many turns we loosened each side, but after lubricating the best and re-tightening the tensioning bolts, we still had to tinker for over an hour to get the belt running straight again. I think we’ll be able to accomplish it faster and easier next time, but I am still NOT looking forward to that next time. Definitely watch the video on the Horizon website, because the procedure explanation in the manual is pretty useless preparation for the realities of what you’re doing.
The heartrate monitor is a bit touchy — I still have not figured out how best to place my hands on the bars to get it to read correctly without it taking anywhere from 30s to over a minute. I do not like how it spits out a reading as soon as you place your hands on there, but the reading is not correct. For example, I place my hands on the bars, it says a reading of 75 but 30s-to-however-long-later it updates to 138. That is quite a big difference. The manual says it may have trouble reading when you are moving around and suggests you should stand on the siderails while taking a reading, but it’s not like I’m bouncing all over the place at 2mph while gripping a bar. I understand from my considerable pre-buying treadmill research that a lot of exercise equipment’s built-in heartrate monitors can be flaky and inaccurate so I am not surprised, but I do wish I could get a reading faster. If you need or want to really monitor your heart rate, I would suggest looking into a separate heartrate monitoring device like one of those wrist-watch ones.
My last quibble is that the tilt-and-roll feature that’s supposed to let you move the treadmill around in its folded upright position is pretty much impossible unless maybe you’re 6ft tall. The treadmill console is really quite tall, wide, and tilted to where if a normal person tried to tilt the folded up treadmill towards them, you’d be gripping unsupported thin plastic console to do so, which then you’d have to tilt into your chest/shoulders/head and then try to roll somewhere more convenient. It is a very heavy and bulky machine, which is part of what makes it great, stable & usable, but don’t fool yourself into thinking you’ll be whisking this particular machine in and out of your chosen exercise spot each day. It will make moving it doable if we need to move our treadmill out of my workout room when we have guests or something, but I’m not going to try moving it unless necessary. The hydraulic lifts for the deck do work really well though.
All in all, I give it 4 stars for being a really great treadmill especially for the price. I’d recommend it to almost anyone who thinks they want a treadmill but doesn’t want to commit to spending a lot.
I purchased this treadmill, my first treadmill after trying alot of different exercise devices and machines that simply did not work for me and my wife, by the way, me and my wife both needed exercise to loose alotr of weight, and nothing seemed to help us because of our busy days working. This product allowed me and my wife to walk at our own paces and get the exercise (walking) that we badly needed. We love the Ipod feature that allows us both to listen to music that we enjoy while walking and all of the digital read outs to let us both know exactly how far we go and how fast, as well as timing our work outs, both of us are unexperienced exercising people and have worked at a desk most of our lives. I have owned this treadmill for a month and have seen changes in both my weight and my wife’s weight, along with both of us eating balanced meals, this machine has bettered our metabolisms. I am very pleased with the cost that I bought this treadmill for $599.00 and with that being said this is the best exercise machine that I have ever invested my hard earned cash for so I have to give this product a thumbs up, if this treadmill will continue working for years down the road then I could not have spent money more wisely. This treadmill was easy to assemble and use the first day it arrived, the shippers brought it right into my home.