Treadmill slipping belt

Treadmill Exercising Woes

Exercising with a treadmill machine is great, both for your body and for your mind. Namely, you get relaxed while training and toning your muscles. This device offers quite a productive workout too. Moreover, all the exercises done with a treadmill can be done in the privacy of your home, without you even needing to leave your room. All this is great, but treadmill machines have several flaws too. Basically, since these are mechanical devices, these are prone to malfunctions. Therefore, you may often need to send them to repair due to various things going wrong, making your trainings impossible. Nevertheless, this is not often the case, because there are many different things you can do in order to fix your own treadmill machine. The remainder of this text will explain how to deal with the most common malfunction these devices might have, a slipped belt during your workouts. Thus, read on to learn how to deal with this problem.

Why Is the Belt Broken?

Well, actually, breaking has nothing to do with this situation. On the contrary, the belt on your treadmill machine may get loose or slip on one side of the machine, making it impossible for you to continue your exercising processes. Then you need to take the matters into your own hands and deal with the problem yourself. One of the main reasons behind this belt problem is the fact that the belt itself was/is mounted to tight or too loose. Ideally, you should be able to lift it from the center of the machine for about 2 inches.

Also, the problem may not be the belt, but the pulley or the misaligned drive belt.

Be the Handyman!

Bring the adequate tools with you. These include screwdrivers and a hex wrench. Then, before “operating”, turn the machine on again and see where the problem lies exactly, looking for places where the belt slips. Usually, you will need to make a certain side tighter by adjusting the bolts on the side of the machine.

Moreover, at the end of the machine, there are adjustments for the belt itself. You can move them and modify the position of the belt so that it is optimal. Do not be afraid to use the user manual for the treadmill, since you might find useful information there, helping you a lot in the repair process. Once you start tightening the belt, do not overdo it because this will cause damage to other parts of the machine.

Finally, when the treadmill is on, check if the pulley roller is working correctly. If not, maybe you should have it changed.