As any home gym owner will tell you, having a treadmill is a necessity if you hope to get a good workout. Not only are they good for burning calories, they are great for warming up and cooling down. And, if you’re just starting out, they can offer a nice low-impact workout to get your body in shape before you move on to tougher routines.

We purchased the Weslo Cadence C44 Treadmill because it offered the best value for what we could afford. And, so far, it’s one of my favorite pieces of exercise equipment.

The Weslo Cadence treadmill offers the same features you’re going to see standard on most treadmills. You have controls for speed and incline. You have an LCD display that keeps track of time, distance and calories burned and you have a motor that can get the treadmill going as fast as 10 miles per hour; allowing you to jog as well as walk. My only complaint about it is the maximum incline it allows is 9 percent. At the gyms, I used to have the incline a bit higher than that.

I use the Weslo Cadence treadmill both for my warm up and cool down routines whenever I do a full workout. But, during the winter, I also end up using it in lieu of my traditional evening walk; giving me sort of a bonus light workout in between my heavier workouts and, as a result, I don’t need as much motivation to do my heavier workouts because I’m staying active in between them rather than sitting on the couch watching television.

The thing I like most about the Weslo Cadence treadmill is actually something you don’t think about normally. Whenever I use treadmills, I have a bad habit of locking my knees while walking; something I’ve tried to correct several times but have failed to do. When I was going to the gym and using their treadmills, this would cause me to get sore knees and I would have to stop using the treadmill after about 10 or 15 minutes.

The Weslo Cadence treadmill does a much better job cushioning my steps than the other treadmills I’ve used. I still lock my knees when I’m using it, but I can stay on it for an hour and not be sore.

If you’re looking to purchase a treadmill and want to buy on value, not just price, the Weslo Cadence C44 Treadmill is the product you should look at.