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Consider a day when leaving home is not an option as it is probably too late or just snowing outside. You are missing out on your regular regimen in the gym and you just have to burn off those extra calories you had piled on the day before. The utility of having a treadmill at home has now become obvious to you for a useful home workout. But buying one needs careful scrutiny as it has to suit both your pocket and fitness schedule.

The choice often varies between an automatic treadmill and a manual one. Remember that when you step onto the wide belt resting over a flat body and a couple of rollers, your feet supports two and a half times the weight of your body. So it is an imperative to examine the load involved.

When considering the purchase of a treadmill, carefully notice the tenacity of the deck or the belt area as that is where your basic exercise is done whether it is running, jogging or just plain walks. Attractive extra features like cup holders, CD players and other electronic equipments like built-in fans are hardly essential in this respect.

Customized fitness routines might be available with treadmills now days. They might have built-in speedometers, indicating belt speed, mph and distance covered along with heart rate, with display options on the monitor. Such functions are carried out without wire connections. But the price range for such treadmills will be higher than usual.

Extra features like heart monitors and default safety options like automatic stoppage of the belt on slipping, adds to the safe and hassle free usage of the treadmill. To increase or decrease intensity of workouts instantaneously (e.g. Changing inclination of the deck) cheaper models are a hindrance as the entire shift has to be done manually by rotating knobs, etc. which can be very disturbing in the course of a workout.