Of course the simplest way to find cheap used treadmills for sale is garage sales, rummage sales and things like that. You have to be willing to get up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday to make it to the sales before others have picked them dry, but you’re sure to find a treadmill. Just buy a newspaper and wait until a weekend where you can hit several different garage sales in one day.
Make a list of at least ten garage sales to stop by and chances are you’ll find a treadmill or two. People collect fitness equipment like hardwood floors collect dust bunnies. It seems like everyone has at some point gone out and purchased some high-tech, for the time, fitness machine. They use it for a few weeks or months, but then it is relegated to some dark corner of the basement or garage.
This trend is so pervasive; in fact, that I think buying the cheapest treadmill possible is the best way to go. Finding an old used treadmill for sale is the only way I would enter into a fitness machine purchase. In all honesty. If it works, and costs fifty bucks, awesome. That way I can lug it home and if I get on it, great; if I don’t, oh well.
A friend of mine did just this to try out her latest idea. She decided that instead of sitting down to watch television, she would get on the treadmill instead. What a marvelous idea! She didn’t start out there though. First, she found some old used treadmills for sale, brought one home, and then used it for a mere 20 minutes a day. After a short period of time she was able to increase to as often as she watched television. I should point out that she worked at home, so she would frequently watch TV for short periods of time.
She is the one that introduced me to some powerful information about the metabolic rate and low intensity cardio workouts. Did you know that walking at a pace of only one to two miles per hour doubles your metabolic rate? This may not sound very impressive, but think about that and there may be a reason to use the boring ‘fat burning’ workout selection on your treadmill.
If you got on a treadmill or went for a walk every time you took a phone call or watched television, think of all the extra calories your burning. There are even ideas in the works at some companies the incorporate some kind of standing desk treadmill. Some people have made their own and the desk treadmill is already a reality.
Think about that. Let’s say you work, as I do, at a computer for eight hours a day. Then, instead of a sit down desk, you were moving at a very casual 1 mile/hour pace, burning twice as many calories as if you were sitting down. The average person needs somewhere around 1400 calories a day. If it takes 1400 calories per day to maintain your weight, that works out to about 60 calories per hour. This means that after an eight hour workday, this person would have burned an additional 480 calories.
This could make a serious dent in that gut that’s slowly been taking over. I use this doubling the metabolic principle wherever I can. It’s a nice way to get on top of fitness without having to make any huge changes. You don’t need a membership at a gym. You don’t even need to get sweaty, just make some regular activities more active and you’re on your way!