Feb 5th, 2010 | Written by S. Thompson | Posted in Exercise |

A treadmill mat will protect your treadmill in more ways than one. It offers an overall useful life extension by minimizing or in some cases preventing some of the most common ailments that eventually wear down a treadmill.

Sure there are differences in the quality of various brands and durability depends on the make and model of the machine. But a treadmill floor mat helps to ensure that your exercise equipment last for as long as they possibly could before the first major repair. By extending the life of you treadmill as well as extending the time in between trips to the repair shop, your little investment in a floor mat will pay for itself very many times over in the long haul.

During your workout session while the weight of your body is pounding away at the treadmill there is a lot of energy being expended as shock and vibration which is transferred through the machine to the floor. This can lead not only to potential damage to your floors but the reverberation of the shock back into the body of your treadmill will cause excessive wear. A treadmill mat will serve as a shock absorber and cushion the vibration riveting between the machine and the floor.

Some people think that having carpet will allow them to get away from having to buy a treadmill mat. There is a lot of problems in this case because even if the carpet was enough to provide the same amount of cushion as a mat, the carpet houses a lot of dust and loose carpet fibers. During a workout session, the air is stirred and the carpet fibers and other junk will rise. Some will find their way into the mechanical parts of you treadmill as they enter from the underside. As the junk accumulate it can clog the moving parts and will require expensive repairs. A treadmill mat helps keep this from happening.

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