I want to discuss how the treadmill works. Let me paint you a picture first. Have you seen a belt sander in action? It is like a miniature conveyor belt that goes around and around, only there is a one piece sandpaper that fits on it and goes around and around with it.

Well treadmills work on the same principle. In the middle of this machine there is something like a conveyor belt that goes around and around and you need to keep in step with it. It can be adjusted according to the speed you would like it to go-the faster the more intense your workout..so obviously when you are first starting out, you need to keep it at low speed until you are acquainted with the machine.

There are really only two types of treadmills available for you to purchase. One of them is sort of self propelled. In other words you supply the energy for it to go around and around. The second type, and the one I recommend is the electric one. You just plug it, get on it and press the button. That’s all there is for a fantastic and fulfilling workout equivalent to any elliptical, rowing, or ski machine on the market.

I believe the best place to shop for a treadmill machine is on the Internet. I believe this because you can usually get a much greater selection than in say, a shopping mall. Stores are usually limited to one or very few brands whereas the Internet carries every brand on the market. Plus if a store only carries one brand you will get a very biased opinion. Shopping at a place where there are many brands you will get a more honest review of the treadmill product.

Have you ever noticed when you slip on the television right before you go to bed how all the late-night infomercials are filled with the newest and latest revolutionary forms of exercise equipment. Whew! I mean it is all over the TV. Not only that-I also noticed that the shopping channels are cluttered with things like treadmill machines and elliptical machines. They are really popular.

The message they are broadcasting to the viewer is “yes you can get that beautiful figure back ladies;” and yes man you can have six pack abs and bulging muscles in a matter of days. It is all very appealing because we as human beings are endowed universally with a sense of vanity aren’t we?

Not only the commercialism on TV but there are gyms all over the place that are packed with exercise machines and rows and rows of treadmills with sweaty bodies striving and agonizing to get through their 45 minute exercise program. In fact that is why all these people are agonizing at the gym-they have a plethora of machines..wall to wall exercise machines.

Yet with all this national craze centered upon exercise machines it begs the question “is all this equipment necessary for losing weight and being fit?” Someone might answer “people have been slim and trim for hundreds of years without all these machines that are at out disposal-why do we need them now?”