$55,000 for a treadmill?

Would you pay $55,000 for a treadmill?

What if the treadmill maker were to claim that the treadmill enables “people to improve mobility and health, recover from injury and surgery more effectively, overcome medical challenges that limit movement, and enhance physical performance”?

That is the claim made by AlterG, Inc., the maker of the $55,000 “G-Trainer” and $75,000 “G-Trainer Pro” treadmills.

What is the simplest way to describe what is special about these treadmills?

According to Claudia Zapata writing for MySanAntonio.com, “It’s like running on air.”

You pay $20,000 extra for the “Pro” version because it will go up to 18 MPH in the forward direction (vs. 10 MPH), will go up to 10 MPH in the reverse direction (vs. 3 MPH), and will incline up to 15% (vs. 5%).

So you sub-6-minute-milers will need the “Pro” version.

We slower runners and walkers can get by with the standard version.

Either version works by having you slip into special compression-shorts (over your regular apparel), zipping yourself into the treadmill’s enclosure system, selecting a fraction of body weight that you want to experience, and waiting for the treadmill to inflate the enclosure system so that you can walk or run with less than your full body weight.

This reminds me of the AquaJogger but without the water and with a variable degree of weightlessness.

How much would you pay for this? Please leave a comment here. Thanks!