Asuna treadmill appears well-designed, hopefully rugged. Advanced features like incline, maneuverable for small spaces & gets out of the way. On first use, an amazing product.
Amazon delivered on-time; delivery guys were willing to carry up some steps & into the house. Packaging was damaged: it appears someone speared the box with a forklift fork, but missed the product: no apparent damage, so I got lucky. Packaging is robust, product well-secured inside, but not overly difficult to unpack.
Setup is minimal: install some handholds with provided tools. Their hex wrench is awkwardly oversized: supply your own if possible. A hex-head screwdriver set works well, but again it's only 4 machine screws so no big deal.
Lubricating the belt isn't hard & will become part of regular maintenance for any treadmill. They supply your first small bottle of lube. It's easy for this process to become messy so put down some paper to protect carpet/floor & expect the lube bottle to be fouled. You're using a thick viscous silicone oil but it does wipe up/wash off; just don't get it into carpet.
Ease of movement/daily setup: the unit is heavy for moving around but well-balanced & on wheels. One side has lateral-movement (R-L) wheels; rocked the other way the wheels run forward/backward. So by tilting a little you can roll the treadmill upright in any direction: nice. It rolls easily on hardwood floors; on low/short pile carpet a little less so (small wheels) but still quite doable. Deep shag: you'll be in trouble. Folded up it stacks nicely against the wall, taking up a space 30 x 15". You'll want to allow a few additional inches width to maneuver it into place. It's quite stable against the wall, but if you have small children you had better ensure it can't be pulled over accidentally: a cord around it, perhaps. Tipping it over is extremely unlikely but it IS heavy & could seriously harm a child if they succeeded in pulling it down on themselves.
Floor support: you'll want a rubber mat of some sort for any treadmill, to minimize wear-&-tear on the floor surface & perhaps minimize noise transmission. On carpet that mat had better be pretty robust: the treadmill rests on four points, two of which are smallish & two of which include the motor housing. You don't want compressed carpet up against the motor housing: that'll limit airflow for cooling & encourage dust build-up in the motor. PVC mats for workouts compress; use real rubber instead. Makes for a heavy mat to lay down & roll up, but an ounce of prevention saves a lot of worries later.
Laying the machine down isn't overly hard but it is at the top end of what you'd want to manipulate. Figure a lift of 30-40 lbs. Step on the red lever & lift the folding rail: that isn't hard.
Plugging in: the power socket for the cord is poorly marked. Find it on the bottom edge of the front of the machine, facing down. Beside it, also poorly marked (not even identified in the manual) find the rocker switch to turn on the machine. The manual is a mix of very detailed parts-list & VERY sparse instructions, but it is written in good English.
The display runs the width of the unit with incline buttons & read-out on the left, speed on the right. All pretty intuitive. Handholds provide up & down buttons to manipulate speed or incline by single-digit degrees: nice & ergonomic. Changes in speed & inclination are gradual but speedy. The rail provides a media shelf for a laptop or phone, & they've provided a cable to provide sound to speakers on the treadmill. I haven't tested that; most phones no longer provide a phono (headphone) jack so you might need a tablet for that. There is no fan; that would increase weight, & it's trivial to place a fan where you want it. Sunny has prioritized necessary features & minimized fluff to keep the weight down: smart.
Noise: absolutely minimal. The treadmill is quiet, as quiet as it likely could be. You won't wake or irritate the neighbours. That's impressive. Sound doesn't appear to increase much with speed, though there'll be inevitable foot-fall noise as you shift to running. I'll be mostly walking on it, but this treadmill isn't just a walking mat: it can run fast enough to give you a good run. Add the ability to incline (claimed 12 degrees but I haven't measured it) & you can get a really good workout if you're not an olympic hopeful.
The machine appears robust. Definitely home-grade: something intended for commercial gyms would be built of steel & not moveable. This is constructed of aluminum & intended to be portable, but appears pretty robust despite that. Motor is in the 2 HP range: acceptable but the only long-term worry. The threshold for a robust commercial-grade home machine is generally accepted as 3.5HP; less & providers report increased maintenance worries & shorter lifespan. Mitigate that: buy Amazon's long-term warranty: cost is quite reasonable & I've found it easy to invoke with occasional IT hardware failures. Your credit card may add warranty coverage: mine doubles the life of any manufacturer OR added warranty as a free benefit. Worth seeking this if you're shopping credit cards. But the motor appears robust enough: time will tell. That would be the one upgrade I'd encourage Sunny Fitness to look at. Motor tech is changing rapidly; simply switching to brushless motor (if they haven't already) would add 20-30% hp without increasing the weight of the unit, which they'd want to avoid.
Exercise equipment has changed dramatically 2022: everyone is chasing monthly billings as a revenue stream, pitching their service offerings as similar to Peloton. Who doesn't want to charge for the machine, then get annual billings of many hundreds of dollars? Ka-ching! Fight this!! It's a benefit to their finance dept, not to you as a customer. Sunny has provided a well-rounded robust machine with internal programs, ease of use to vary your workout, all in a stand-alone unit that won't ding you monthly. Here's hoping they don't drop the product & join the shift to monthly billing.
This product appears unique: no one else offers high-end features (speed, incline) in a roll-away storable unit. There are small-ish folding units where the platform tilts up, but they still eat up 35"+ of space & aren't really easily movable; this moves easily & eats up 9" from the wall. Wow. Is there effort involved in packing it up? Sure, but not overly. In small spaces this gets out of the way. Does it connect to the web for Peloton-like programming? No: that's more a benefit to the provider's monthly revenue stream than it is a benefit to you.
I'll try to provide an update with more extended use, but for now I'm really happy with my purchase. It felt like a gamble to risk $1,000 on a Chinese-made product from a manufacturer that has zero presence in the US, esp the exercise community there. There are no industry reviews. But it appears so far that the gamble has paid off: Sunny Fitness has made a sufficiently robust well-designed niche product that offers advanced features (speed, incline) in an ergonomic, portable, easily set up & movable treadmill that (hopefully) will go the distance. I'm really impressed. And again, Amazon's available add-on warranty takes a lot of the risk out of it.
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