Phoenix 98516 Easy-Up Manual Treadmill Reviews
Posted on Jan 02, 2010 with Comments 10
Phoenix 98516 Easy-Up Manual Treadmill
- Manual treadmill with heavy-duty weighted flywheel and 41.5-by-13.5-inch belt
- Single-button electronics display tracks speed, distance, time, and calories
- Lets you achieve maximum walking/jogging speed via self-powered workout
- Folds and locks in upright position for storage; 250-pound maximum weight limit
- Measures 46 x 50 x 21 inches (W x H x D); 1-year frame warranty
An economical yet reliable walking treadmill with smooth, quiet operation. Select your own space and alter it at any time any way you want! Very simple and user friendly design, yet equipped with heavy-duty steel frame and flywheel. Warranty is 90 days parts, 1 year frame. Maximum user weight is 250lbs. Not recommended or guaranteed for user over this limit.Most treadmills are frightfully expensive, with bulky electric motors that power the treadmill while jacking up the price. No so the Easy-Up
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List Price: $ 169.99
Price: $ 127.00
Horizon Fitness T101 Treadmill
- Folding treadmill with 2.25 HP continuous duty motor for quiet operation
- Speed up to 10 MPH, incline to 10 percent, 20 x 55-inch belt size
- 9 programming options with 3 targets (time, distance, calories) and 3 workouts (manual, intervals, weight loss)
- Sonic Surround speakers with MP3 compatibility, pulse grip heart rate monitoring
- 300-pound maximum user weight; lifetime warranty on frame and motor, 1 year on parts and labor
Horizon treadmills are all about one thing – quality. Quality suspension and deck systems to help protect your body; best-in-class motors that keep going strong for years to come; and meaningful, motivating programming to help you meet your goals. At Horizon, we carefully design each treadmill to give you the comfort, control and convenience you need to succeed. Horizon treadmills use large, heavy frames, making them more solid and stable than competitors’. The Horizon T101 offers a comfortabl
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(out of 41 reviews)
List Price: $ 799.00
Price: $ 579.99
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Review by MF for Phoenix 98516 Easy-Up Manual Treadmill
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My first manual treadmill, and a decent product. Does take some time to get use to. Don’t buy this if you expect to use this for running. Given that the treadmill needs to be at a small incline so your motion pushes the belt down and around, runnning is extremely difficult. Works well if you plan to use for fast walking in your home.
Review by David A. Cohen for Phoenix 98516 Easy-Up Manual Treadmill
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This is a fine item. The product was delivered as promised, with all parts attending. Includes sufficient tools for assembly. Easy to put together, and sturdily built. Because of the incline of the deck you get quite the workout. Comes with a nice little booklet/manual. Folds up and has cleverly placed rollers making stowage easy.
Review by MrRojan for Phoenix 98516 Easy-Up Manual Treadmill
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The trend mill was really easy to set up. All the tools, bolts, and parts were self evident and except for the little calorie meter which was pretty smashed, were solid. It really does fold up nicely when put away and I really enjoy it. It is well worth the money and if you are looking for a treadmill that is inexpensive, try this one.
Review by Dee ML for Phoenix 98516 Easy-Up Manual Treadmill
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I am a college student, and I am very used to the gym at my school with the electric treadmills . I wanted to try a manual version because having the treadmill at home for the summer would be more convenient then shuffling to and from my campus just to use the gym. I have never used a manual treadmill and was biased to the electric — and thought wrongly about the both of them as well.
Basically, an electric treadmill goes a set speed and your job is to catch up. With a manual treadmill you are powering it, so you control the intensity of the workout.
I usually walk a steady 3-4 miles per hour. On a manual treadmill I could not get a great, heart pounding, sufficient workout setting the speed to 3-4 miles per hour and walking along to the set speed of the belt. Minutes on the manual treadmill, I could definitely feel it. It’s great because it makes you feel like you are actually doing something, but definitely a tough job after a while.
I’d say give it a try. This is a very good quality product and was extremely easy to set up. I don’t regret the purchase.
Review by H. Rosser for Phoenix 98516 Easy-Up Manual Treadmill
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The belt sticks when I try to use it – but I’m a good 230 lbs – but the wife loves it – she’s about half my weight. It works great for her. I use a schwinn ski machine.
Review by Silver – Rockies for Horizon Fitness T101 Treadmill
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I was very pleased with my purchase. I had researched treadmills quite a bit before deciding on the Horizon T101. Most of my research stated that this was a good value for the price point and I would have to agree. The unit is sturdy, smooth and quiet. I weigh 230 lbs and the T101 didn’t have any issues. You will need 2 people to move the box. Assembling it was straight forward, 3 basic steps took about an 45 minutes to an hour. Now let see how it does over the long haul. I’ll amend my review should any issues arise.
Review by HM for Horizon Fitness T101 Treadmill
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After researching more than I planned to and more than I would have liked to, I finally came back to where I started at with the Horizon T101. They happen to sell it at a local (& small) sports store where I felt comfortable with the salespeople who actually wanted to help me & with treadmills that were actually able to be used. (At the large chain stores I went to, no sales people were anywhere around and the safety keys were all removed from the treadmills rendering them useless. Hence, I wasn’t exactly thrilled with the prospect of giving them my money.)
Anyway, I have read a lot in the past few days about you can’t get a quality treadmill for under X amount of money or by buying anything from X brand. Thing is, I definitely don’t have $1500-$2000 to spend on a treadmill. I wasn’t even comfortable with the idea of spending $1000. I wanted something between $400-$700 MAX. And I didn’t want it to shake, I wanted it to have incline, and tell me how far I’d “traveled” and how many calories I’d burnt, and I wanted to be able to jog on it (5-6 MPH for me.) I thought these were fairly simple demands considering treadmills aren’t exactly new technology. I don’t even need it to support a large amount of weight. Just me, at 150 lbs and hopefully soon weighing less.
So I finally decided I would try the one I liked the most instead of trying to find the one the treadmill reviewers liked the most. I did ultimately decide against Icon made products because I did not like the consoles as much and I feared the fancier electronic stuff meant less quality in the places where it matters most. I also read way too much about subpar quality in the past (although it has perhaps increased recently, shown by their imrpoved warranties) that I could not possibly buy one without fearing it’s impending doom. This brought me back to Horizon treadmills, which I liked the look of the most from the beginning. As a bonus and possible deciding factor, the nice people at Play it again Sports where the T101 is carried in my area assured me they are licensed to fix Horizon products. So if it breaks, I don’t even have to call Horizon. I just go see them and they come fix it.
I bit the bullet and let them swipe my card. Opted out of having them deliver and assemble it. It would have been nice, but I didn’t want to spend any more money if I didn’t have to. It is quite heavy and it was difficult to get it out of the car and inside. Putting it together was much easier, although my boyfriend got aggravated a couple times because you have to hold parts just right for all the holes to line up (which all of ours did). Really though all you do is attach the supporting bars and then fit the console in between the support beams on top. After assembly, I hopped on to begin burning calories asap. I jogged some at 5.8 mph and 2% incline, I jogged much slower at a 5% incline, I walked quickly all the way up at a 10% incline, and I sped walk a lot around 4 mph at 3% incline. I was at it for around 45 minutes and it felt very stable and good under my feet. I realize this is not at all showing if it’s durable yet or not, but my first impressions are that I am quite pleased and excited to get fit for bikini season. I am glad that I did not spend less and that I did not spend more. I like the console and the overall appearance of this treadmill as well. It does not look or feel cheap or flimsy.
The only problem I’m having right now is it is quite large and doesn’t fold up completely vertically. I already knew this but it’s still a little bit of a problem for me. It’s more or less in the middle of my living room right now as there’s not really anywhere else to put it without completely rearranging. My recent weight gain over a tough fall semester followed by the holidays however is more of an issue to me so I am willing to deal with an intruding treadmill. Also one may wish to beware that after assembled it probably cannot move through doorways. It is 33″ in width and 40″ deep while folded. Finally, the 2 wheels are useless. I have yet to figure out how to tilt it back (towards me, when I’m holding onto the handles of the treadmill while folded) and get it onto the wheels. Thus, it is quite difficult to move around. Luckily my floor is tiled; I don’t think I COULD move it on carpet, especially not thick carpet.
In essence, I would highly recommend this treadmill if you are looking for qualities similar to what I was looking for. A fairly basic, safe-feeling, folding treadmill with automatic incline that can easily support an average weight for walking and jogging. It has a lifetime frame and motor warranty which makes me feel like it will be durable over the long haul. Definitely GO to the stores and test them out and see what you feel comfortable on & won’t mind looking at in your home. I would also try to find out if there are people who can service a Horizon treadmill near you, if that will ease your mind as it did mine. I am happy with my purchase, which was a large purchase for me, and I will update this review should anything go wrong. Happy treading!
Review by Urutoraman for Horizon Fitness T101 Treadmill
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I’d been researching on doing a treadmill purchase for over a month and decided to go with a NordicTrack T5 Zi because of the delivery and assembly convenience from a local store. What a big mistake, the delivery company for the local store failed on the first attempt and the customer service insulted me on the second attempt. I asked for a refund…
My second choice was always a Horizon Fitness treadmill. After reading the reviews about the quality and service of Horizon Fitness, we decided to go with the T101, which is the basic model for 2010. Amazon had this with Free Super Saver shipping, a saving of over a hundred bucks.
Got it today delivered by CEVA on time and in perfect condition packaging. It was very well packaged and really heavy. Assembly was incredible easy, in fact easier than an elliptical machine I got 3 years ago. Quality is excellent, it has 4 points screws on the arms instead of the 2 from NordicTrack, this one feels really sturdy. In fact it looks higher in quality and the belt doesn’t have the gap area on the sides like all the other ICON fitness machines at the same price range.
Tested it for a couple of minutes, it have the same feel as a gym treadmill. For now I am really happy. Only time will tell.
Review by David Roberts for Horizon Fitness T101 Treadmill
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Received this treadmill 2 days ago. Very easy to assemble. Quality construction. Very quiet motor. Heavy, but easy to roll to desired location. Will append review after using it for awhile.
Review by True disciple for Horizon Fitness T101 Treadmill
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This treadmill is a great treadmill for the price. I highly recommend it. I was looking for a treadmill with a wide and long belt, and this one, 55 x 20, gives me a lot of space to walk and run. The treadmill has 10 buttons each for the speed and incline: 1, 2, 3…10, so you can just press the button to get to desired speed or incline, and not to have press the up or down arrow a hundred times. It also has a up and down arrow button, too, on the side so you can adjust by .1 the speed or the incline. The treadmill has a fan with 3 modes, fan 1, fan 2, and fan 3, so if you feel yourself getting hot during the walk, you can blast up the fan and it’ll cool you down. The treadmill, like others, allows you to read your heart rate. And you can check calories burnt, distance, and time, like others. After you’re done with it, you can fold it up. It’s really good. I have no complaints with it.
For $600, it’s a great buy.