Reebok treadmills are licensed by the Icon Health and Fitness company. Icon also makes Image, Nordic Track and several other popular brands of treadmills and other exercise equipment. Icon makes or owns the rights to a wide range of fitness equipment from some of the best performing gear to some of the worst treadmills, such as the Image line of treadmills.
So what are Reebok treadmills? What is the Reebok name doing on a treadmill? Quite simply, Icon Health and Fitness own the licensing rights, and Reebok is a very well known fitness related name that many people trust and will pay more money for. That’s not to say that the Reebok line of treadmills aren’t quality machines, Icon has put some nice features on these units.
The Reebok treadmills are somewhere right in the middle between Icon’s top, Cadillac brand, Nordic Track, and it’s lowest rated, yet also least expensive brand of treadmills, Image. With Reebok treadmills you get a decent machine for a slightly increased, relative to the average cost of a treadmill, price.
To read reviews about Reebok treadmills, there are many quality websites that have easy access to all kinds of treadmill ratings and reviews. Most of these websites are free and you will be able to compare prices and general features between various machines. There are often brief reviews with a overview of pros and cons or basic statistics.
There are, however, premium consumer serving websites that have all kinds of information in addition to what you’ll probably find at one of the other free websites. This can be good if you’re looking at the more expensive treadmills, have very particular concerns about treadmill performance, or if you simply want as much comprehensive information as possible.
Be prepared to pay for good review and statistical information about treadmills and other fitness equipment. Sure you can get the basic information to compare and contrast different treadmills on free websites, and these are great services. But you can find out all kinds of additional information like warranty and first repair time averages and really helpful things like that.
If you’re going to be spending more than $300 or $400 on a treadmill, you may as well be sure that you’re informed about every aspect of the unit. In all soberness, finding out that a certain model has only a 90 day warranty and 50% of the users reported them not working shortly after that, you’ll want to know about it.
Money spent on decent performance reports of Reebok treadmills is well when it means that you can save or avoid having to spend, depending on how you look at things, a few to several hundred dollars. I’d say that makes the price of a membership with Consumer Reports or some similar service well worth it.
For the most part, the Reebok treadmill is a fair deal and chances are you’ll be fully satisfied, but it is still advisable that you get on one and walk for at least twenty to thirty minutes before you commit to a purchase. This way you can be sure that you feel good on it before it’s staring you down at home every morning.