Bowflex Series 7 Treadmill Top Quality

When shopping around for treadmills I was really just looking for a well rated, well built machine with a large enough deck for me (6'2) to run on comfortably. The bowflex series 7 was listed #1 on consumer reports when I purchased mine two months ago and I have been extremely happy with it. It is packaged by Nautilus and comes with all tools and hardware necessary for assembly. Assembly essentially means attaching the arms and upper console, nothing mechanical, and takes approximately an hour. Becuase it is around 300lbs, Amazon ships via specialty freight carriers which means that they often cannot bring it into the home (i.e. they will help you get it to a specified area (garage, breezway, etc) but you may need to do the rest). It is packaged quite well, such that a friend and I were able to get it moved into the house as one unit without taking any parts out of the box. We were able to get it in place with just the two of us, but if I had to do it over I would suggest using a dolly and a couple extra hands.

Mechanically, this machine is wonderful. It is quiet, easy to use, and comes with a more powerful motor than most of the other folding treadmills out there. The running surface is 60" and more than enough for anyone with long strides to feel comfortable on. It's folded height is about 66" and fairly easy to move around the room once in place. It feels solid to run on, yet provides enough cushion to be easy on the knees. The automatic incline function works perfectly.

They only criticisms that I have are that the fan isn't really all that powerful, and the display window is relatively small. Bowflex may have done better to simply remove the fan, and have a much larger display in it's place. I would have liked a screen large enough to display everything at once (i.e. program info, calories burned, heart rate etc.) rather than having to cycle through them. At any rate, neither of these are critical to any primary function of the machine and to that end, I would give it 5 out of 5; My wife and I are very happy with the purchase.


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