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The Sole F80 treadmill has earned a reputation as one of the best-quality treadmills in its price range thanks to its unbeatable combination of high-quality components and user-friendliness. The treadmill boasts a strong 3.0-horsepower, continuous-duty motor, which delivers challenging speeds of up to 12 miles per hour and inclines of up to 15 percent. At the same time, the F80’s Cushion Flex Whisper Deck is built to protect your joints from excessive pounding, with the ability to reduce impact up to 40 percent compared to running on asphalt. And when you’re not using the treadmill, it folds into a compact footprint and locks securely in place, thereby saving a ton of storage space.
The Sole F80 Treadmill is equipped with a host of user-friendly features, including six preset workout programs, two customizable programs, and two heart rate programs, along with a red display that tracks your speed, incline, time, distance traveled, calories, pulse, and pace. There’s even a 1/4-mile digital track that you can follow as you run and a peak-and-valley graph that corresponds to individual programs. Other details include a large stop switch for safety; a low-profile running hood; armrest cooling fans; speed and incline controls on the armrests; a wireless chest strap that measures your heart rate; and a 20-by-55-inch running deck. The F80 treadmill, which offers a user capacity of up to 335 pounds, carries the following warranties: lifetime on the motor, deck, and frame; five years on the electronics, belt, and rollers; and two years on the labor.
Sole F80 Treadmill Features
- Assembled Dimensions: 33 by 75 by 58 inches (W x L x H)
- Folded Dimensions: 68 by 43 inches (H x D)
- Motor: 3.0 horsepower
- Speed: 0.1 to 12 miles per hour
- Elevation: 0 to 15%
- Deck: 1-inch Whisper
- Belt: 2-ply
- Running surface: 20 by 55 inches
- Roller: 2.75 inches
- Fold-up: Easy Assist Fold
- Pulse Grip
- Heart Rate Control
- Heart Rate Chest Strap Included
- Display Type: LED
- Six-Window Display
- Color: Red
- Accessory tray
- Six Standard Programs
- Two User-Defined Programs
- Two Heart Rate Programs
- Quick speed/elevation buttons: 12
- Speed/elevation in handles
- Built-in cooling fans
- Weight capacity: 350 pounds
The F80’s LED display will track your speed, incline, time, distance traveled, calories, pulse, and pace. |
Manufacturer’s Warranty
Motor – lifetime, deck – lifetime, frame – lifetime, electronics/wear items – 5 years, labor – 2 years
About Treadmills
Walking is still considered one of the most beneficial cardiovascular exercises for people of all ages, body types, and fitness levels. As a fundamental form of aerobic training, walking has numerous physical benefits for the heart, lungs, and circulatory system, while also increasing muscle tone and burning fat calories. Treadmills provide a convenient way to regularly exercise in all weather conditions in the comfort and safety of your own home.
From beginners just starting an exercise regimen to advanced athletes looking to maintain their fitness level, anyone interested in getting and staying in shape can benefit greatly from regular use of a treadmill. Treadmills allow you to determine the pace, distance, and complexity of the workout based on your needs, all while watching television, talking on the telephone, or reading a magazine. Much easier on sensitive joints like the knees and hips, treadmill walking and running surfaces are typically long, padded platforms that allow ample room for a long stride and comfortable, low-impact walk or jog without the harsh contact of a concrete surface.
While many different types, styles, and price ranges of treadmills exist, many of them offer unique features like a fold-up design for easy storage, an electronic display monitor showing speed, distance, workout time, incline level, and burned calories, and EKG grip pulses to monitor the heart rate while exercising. Regardless of the simple to complex features you may choose, treadmills offer an array of aerobic exercise opportunities that will provide long-lasting beneficial cardiovascular results without a commute to the gym or a jog in the rain.
Sole F80 Treadmill Reviews
Very Nice Treadmill.
I just finished my first week with my Sole F80 and I’m still sure I bought the best treadmill for the price. I had been looking at treadmills in the $700-up price range since I saw a Nordic Track in [...]. I’m 6ft and 360lbs so I quickly decided I needed something most industrial than what you get at the sub $1000 range. Also my only other experience with tread mills has been full blown gym units so I’m probably a little more bias towards spending the money for a machine closer to what I’ve used previously.
I read a lot of review but only really looked at the Sole F63 and F80. Honestly I really had a hard time spending the extra $500 on the F80. With some of the occasional horror stories out there I was tempted to get the F63 and an second party extended warranty, just to cover the bases. I was lucky enough to be able to see the machines in person as a Dick’s Sporting goods. The pictures and product description just don’t convey how much more substantial the F80 is. The F80 has the higher weight rating and much longer warranty on parts than the F63 for a reason.
So I ordered the F80, I didn’t go look up exactly how many days it took but it was timely, about 10 days from order to delivery. For west coast people, mine shipped out of a Reno, NV. warehouse and the delivery company called me on a Wednesday and gave me a two hour window for that Friday (9-11am) and they were there at 9:00 sharp. If you take away only one thing from this review, let it be this: HAVE HELP UNLOADING! Even if they bring a truck with a lift gate, this thing weights in around 300 lbs in the box and it’s BIG. It’s packaged pretty well but you WILL damage it trying to manhandle it into the house.
Assembly was pretty straight forward. In fact the hardest part of the process is the plastic covers. One of the reviews I read stated they accidentally cut some of the wiring with a screw for the covers near the hand grips. This is VERY easy to do if you aren’t paying extra attention. If you’re not too worried about it looking pretty, heck just toss the covers in the closet.
I try and use the beast an hour a day, the stock programs are 20 minutes so I mix and match the fatburn, cardio, and interval programs to make up my hour. More me personally this just breaks things up and time seem to pass faster then a single 60 min program.
Good stuff:
I love the wireless heart monitor. When I was comparing the F63 to the F80 I don’t really care that the F80 had the monitor, now I can’t imagine not having it. Was shocked that it fit my 3x torso without issue.
It can take as much punishment as I can endure. The interval program includes 4 mph peaks at 6-7-8 inclines. Does it move, sure it does, but I don’t have a second thought about whether it’s stable and concentrate on what I need to do.
Other stuff:
The fans are…well….”subtle”, they are fine for me but if you are expecting something to blow your hair back, you’re going to need something else.
Speakers… I’m kind of a music person so I’ve WAY over critical, they play music, and it’s nice they included a cable. I used them for about 30 seconds and then fired up my home system.
In another review someone complained that you can’t change the time remaining on a workout once you start it. This seems to be true and it is something I was able to do on the gym machines I used. Not really that big a deal, you can adjust the time of a program before you start it and stopping one program and starting another takes about 5 seconds and 3 seconds of that is the 3-2-1 countdown on the start.
I also didn’t think I would be folding up the machine very much. I ended up leaving the treadmill in a front room for awhile until I decide it’s final home so I fold it every time I use it. VERY handy even it you’re just going to fold it up and not move it. Rolls ok when folded, just bare in mind the 265 pound weight.
To sum it up, the F80 works, looks and feels like a home version of the expensive machines at the gym, not the bigger brother of a cheap machine you’d buy at the fitness version of best buy. Get one..
Good treadmill, hard to put together
We like this treadmill. However, when it arrived we had to put it together. It seemed easy enough, but there are wires going in one of the handles that are tough to get in without pinching them. Well we got it together and the belt did not work. So we called SOLE and someone finally got out to us in 2 1/2 weeks. It turned out we went through one of the wires with a screw when trying to put the handle together. The tech said this is the big flaw with SOLE treadmills, it happens a lot.
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