The Pro Form treadmill line is a moderately priced and moderately rated treadmill. Ther’s nothing particularly exciting about it except that it does have some of the latest features that are becoming most popular in treadmills, such as iFit capability.
Nearly all Proform treadmills come with iFit compatibility. iFit technology allows you to fully customize your entire workout program. With iFit compatibility, you can use your PDA to transfer workout programs and MP3s to the Proform 540 treadmill. This makes working out a lot more fun.
Instead of manually adjusting both the elevation and speed of the machine yourself, or having to choose from one of the pre-set workout programs, the iFit system allows you to program much more advanced workout programs, as well as transfer this data from machine to machine and other data systems as well. Even better, you can easily download more customizable programs from the internet.
Having a power incline feature is great. It allows you to adjust the pitch of the machine with the slide of a level on the control panel in front of you. From my own personal experience, increasing the incline can actually make a treadmill workout more comfortable if you have any kind of hip or knee problems. Try it for yourself and see which elevation feels best to you.
Pro Form treadmills also feature ProShox impact absorption system for reducing the amount of impact to joints like knees and ankles, as well as the back. It is important to have god support for bones and connective tissues so that they are not put under additional stress. A good treadmill makes getting a hard workout easier protecting the body’s weaker areas so that the motion-related muscles can move into action.
The shock absorbing systems on Proform treadmills have been rated as reducing the amount of shock that joints receive by 32% as compared to jogging directly on a hard surface like a paved road. The ProShox absorption system is an air-based system that helps you to workout for longer and with less pain.
If you want to know more about what a Pro Form treadmill is like, there’s nothing like hands on experience. Go to a local retail location or find a gym that has one or more models that you could try out. Only by getting on a treadmill are you really going to know how it will meet your exercise needs and personal style of working out.
And even once you think you’ve found the perfect treadmill and are ready to purchase it, it’s a better idea to walk or jog on the unit for at least twenty to thirty minutes so that you can see how it feels after the freshness of a quick stroll has worn off. Everyone is built differently, and different bodies ride on treadmills differently. And these discrepancies only tend to show up after longer than twenty minutes.
Many people are happy with their Pro Form treadmills, if it feels good to you then rest assured that you’re getting a fair deal and will most likely have little or now problems, as well as customer support and a decent warranty to rely on should there be any problems.