Excellent Product, my heart and feet love it
Written: Dec 19 '05
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Pros: Stable, Quiet, Cushioning.
Cons: Fixed pricing,
The Bottom Line: Why settle for less, it's your health. Skip the bells an whistles from other manufacturers. Great Deck, good controls just what you need.
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| tomcatz's Full Review: Landice L7 |
I purchased the Landice L7 after a month’s research and trial of various treadmills. My requirement was to have a premium deck that is very stable yet comfortable to walk on, simple logical controls, and a dealer network for delivery and setup.
My purpose in buying a treadmill was general fitness. I belong to a fitness center, but having a treadmill at home is great for those snowy cold days and times when you just don’t have the 2 hours it takes to go out.
My benchmark was a Lifefitness 9700 that I use in the gym regularly, after trying the Woodward, and Proform commercial units, this is the one I settled in on. I knew that any home treadmill that I bought would have to be in this performance range or I would give up using it. I used units in hotels world wide that shake, bounce, and are noisy; so much so that I though them dangerous.
I chose the Cardio control panel. The reason was that I think the base model did not provide time, distance, calorie, speed information simultaneously. The LCD readout on the Cardio is superior. The heart rate pickup works well and communicates wirelessly with the panel. That said, I would not buy this feature for cardio control. The algorithm had too much hysteresis in the control loop. The control is constantly trying to adjust and in doing so overshoots and undershoots the desired heart rate. It does adjust both speed and elevation, allowing you to set maximum speed, still it can’t seem to “anticipate” how much to crank it up or tone it down to achieve the desired effect. This could be easily engineered into the product. I found it easier to just watch the monitor and adjust my speed or elevation manually. If you can live with the display of the base panel save $400 and buy a Polar monitor, more versatile as you can use it anywhere. Since I did not have time to try this on other treadmills, I’m not sure that any are better at this. Maybe just a wasted feature.
I considered an L8 but it was not much, if any, more solid. Had more belt length than I could use. The additional height would have been a problem in my basement.
The warranty really is not really that good. Labor is only covered for a year. A typical service call is mostly labor. If they really want to get behind their product, a 10 year parts and labor would be much better.
Recommended:
Yes
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