The Dreadmill

The Dreadmill is a lean, hyper-versatile, dread dream machine! This 3-in-1 cardio machine is a farmer walk, sled push, and manual incline treadmill — all rolled into one. Applying resistance is easy and smooth, thanks to the magnetic resistance lever. By positioning magnets near the flywheel, resistance is generated without any physical contact, ensuring nearly whisper-quiet operation. Keep it low and light, or crank up the intensity for serious athletic gainzzz. Whether you're warming up, crushing intervals, or tackling endurance training, the Dreadmill's magnetic resistance lever makes it easy to adjust your workouts instantly. Being self-powered, you’re free to roam away from outlets. Simply lift from the front stabilizer bar to engage the rear wheels and claim a new home base. The Dreadmill requires very little maintenance aside from the occasional dusting and belt lubricating — don’t mind the jealous looks from your motorized machine-owning friends. It folds away to save space, and you can even use the farmer walk handles to mimic Lever Arm exercises! Bust out bent-over rows, bench presses, shrugs, split squats, calf raises, shoulder presses, and deadlift variations. Best of all, you can get up to speed with all The Dreadmill’s utility in a single workout. Sorry, Wooden Manual Treadmill — there’s barely any learning curve here.

How it compares

	The Dreadmill	AssaultRunner Pro	NordicTrack T Series	7.0 AT Treadmill
GymRadar rating		4.72/5	3.95/5	4.67/5
Price		$3,499.00	$599.00	$1,099.00

Reviews by source

Expert	0.0/5	0 reviews
Retailer	4.7/5	9 reviews

The Dreadmill is one of the few honest attempts to fold sled work, loaded carries and incline walking into a single garage-sized footprint, and on that promise it mostly delivers. Versatility is the standout dimension — every reviewer in the file ends up doing things the machine was never advertised for, from Meadows rows to floor presses off the plate-loaded lever arms. The weakest dimension is functionality at the top end: the magnetic resistance tops out too light for a real sled push, a complaint that shows up in Garage Gym Reviews, TreadmillReviewGuru’s own level-8 test, two verified owner reviews and the r/homegym thread alike. Treat it as a resistance-walking and farmer-carry machine that happens to do light sled drags, not as a prowler-style push sled substitute — and check availability before you plan around it, since both the US and Canadian stores listed it unavailable while Bells of Steel has publicly confirmed a higher-capacity “Dreadmill Max” in development. If you mainly want to run, the AssaultRunner Pro is the better and cheaper buy.

+Versatility: one footprint covers manual incline walking, backward walking, light sled pushes and loaded farmer carries, plus lever-arm work like shrugs, single-arm rows and Meadows rows (Garage Gym Reviews, Gluck's Gym)
+Functionality: self-powered with no outlet needed, eight magnetic resistance levels and three fixed incline positions, and the deck folds up to free the space (TreadmillReviewGuru, Bells of Steel product page)
+Build quality: mostly steel with minimal plastic, and Garage Gym Reviews singles out the dragon-scale powder coat on the lever arms as nicer than the price point suggests (TreadmillReviewGuru, Garage Gym Reviews video)
+Durability: no motor and no drive electronics to fail — upkeep is dusting and occasional belt lubrication, and the frame carries a limited lifetime warranty with 1 year on parts (Garage Gym Reviews video, manufacturer spec table)
+Value: at roughly a third the price of a StairMaster HIITMill X it is the cheap way into resistance-walking and carry training, and one verified owner reports Bells of Steel shipping a replacement part immediately when a component arrived mis-threaded (Gluck's Gym, Bells of Steel owner reviews)

−Functionality: the magnetic resistance is too weak at the top end for a genuine sled push — one verified owner says that even at the hardest level he can literally run in place, and Garage Gym Reviews advises against buying it for sled work (Bells of Steel owner reviews, Garage Gym Reviews)
−Functionality: the farmer-carry handles are fixed 38.5 inches apart, which is too wide for petite or narrow-shouldered users and hurts several lever-arm movements; an owner docked a star specifically for it (TreadmillReviewGuru, Gluck's Gym, Bells of Steel owner reviews)
−Versatility: it is an incline-only deck with no flat setting and is not suitable for endurance running, so it does not replace a conventional treadmill (Garage Gym Reviews, TreadmillReviewGuru)
−Build quality: TreadmillReviewGuru rates storability just 5 out of 10, the console is hard to read during some exercises, and the pulse-grip heart rate and body-composition readings are unreliable; one r/homegym owner needed two people and controlled falls to move it disassembled (TreadmillReviewGuru, r/homegym)
−Durability: long-term data is thin and the picture is unsettled — Gym Crafter flagged shaky single-bolt sled uprights and told viewers to pass on the first version, and only later reported that shipping units had upgraded resistance; no independent user reviews exist on GymRadar (Gym Crafter, GymRadar)