I got my treadmill today, and I believe I’ve gotten more than I bargained for.  It weighs 293 lbs and has a track wide enough to test the turning radius of a dirt bike.  During the Herculean effort to put it in my room my brother determined that the primary health effect was in trying to move the damnable thing.  We’ll be seeking a reduction in home owner’s insurance as with it in place my home is less likely to be blown or float away.

I’ve found that the only time I was able to sustain reasonable levels of exercise was the brief period of time between discovering and fixing a broken treadmill and it dying in glorious battle against me (sadly, I won so we both lost) and went ot Sears to see what they in terms of treadmills.  I spoke with middle-aged salesman and non-chalantly asked if they had a treadmill with exceptional sturdiness and he directed me towards this beast.   It looked impressive (and pricy) and I mentioned that it had a much wider belt than most and that I liked that, to which he replied “yeah, it was originally so people could walk their dog on a treadmill”.  Great, I’m going to get a treadmill large enough that an entire family of Mexican illegal immigrants could use it to endurance train for a trek across the Sonoran desert.