My UREVO CyberMega Smart Treadmill Review After a Month of Using It
AD – Gifted: UREVO sent me the CyberMega Smart Treadmill free of charge in return for an honest review. I have been using it for around a month before writing this because I wanted to properly try it rather than use it twice and tell you how wonderful it is! As always, everything I share here is my own opinion and experience.
I have wanted a treadmill at home for quite a while, although I wasn’t entirely sure what sort I wanted. There are so many little walking pads around now, which look great for getting a few extra steps in, but I also didn’t want to spend money on something I might quickly outgrow if I decided I wanted to walk faster, use an incline or even get back into a bit of running at some point.
So, when UREVO offered to send me their CyberMega Smart Treadmill to try, I was definitely interested. I’ve now been using it for around a month and, despite one slightly unfortunate incident involving me, the treadmill and a pair of Crocs, I absolutely love it.
The biggest surprise for me hasn’t really been any of the clever features, though. It is simply how convenient having a proper treadmill at home is. I don’t have to decide I’m going to exercise, get changed, go somewhere and turn it into a whole event. If I fancy a walk for twenty minutes, I can have a walk for twenty minutes. If I want to do more, I can do that too.
I’ve talked before about how I think gentle exercise still counts, and having the treadmill has fitted really nicely with that attitude. Exercise doesn’t always need to be about pushing yourself as hard as possible, and I think I’m finally getting better at accepting that!
First impressions of the UREVO CyberMega
The first thing I noticed when the CyberMega arrived was that this isn’t really comparable to one of the little walking pads you see advertised everywhere. It is much more like the sort of treadmill I would expect to use at a gym, but designed so that you can have it at home.
It weighs around 63.5kg, so I’m certainly not going to pretend it’s tiny. That weight does have an advantage though because, when I’m using it, it feels incredibly sturdy. I don’t feel as though I need to alter the way I walk or keep looking down to make sure my feet are still perfectly positioned in the middle of a tiny belt.
The walking and running area is approximately 48cm wide and 130cm long, which gives me plenty of space to walk naturally. The maximum user weight is 136kg, which is around 21st 6lb, and I think that’s something worth mentioning because weight limits can make buying exercise equipment unnecessarily frustrating when you’re plus size.
I’ve been at weights in the past where I’ve looked at fitness equipment only to discover that I was too heavy to use the thing that was supposedly going to help me become more active. It’s one of those little things people don’t necessarily think about unless they’ve experienced it themselves.
The CyberMega does fold when you’re not using it and has wheels to help you move it, but I would still get your tape measure out before ordering one. Foldable doesn’t mean you can pick this up, tuck it under your arm and pop it behind the sofa! It’s still a proper treadmill and I think it makes far more sense to have somewhere you’re happy for it to live most of the time.
Setting it up – and my first important lesson!
I was pleased that setting the treadmill up didn’t involve hours of building because I don’t have a great deal of patience for products that arrive in 4,000 pieces. There is nothing quite like being excited about a new piece of exercise equipment and then discovering you apparently need an engineering qualification before you can use it.
The CyberMega comes largely ready to go, so once it was set up, obviously I wanted to try it. This is where I should point out that there is a sensible way to try a treadmill for the first time. You put appropriate footwear on, familiarise yourself with the controls and attach the emergency safety clip to yourself before you start.
I did none of those things. I was wearing Crocs because I was only going to “quickly try it”. Apparently, I had decided that the treadmill would understand this and realise I wasn’t technically exercising. I started walking on it and then spotted a button and pressed it. Did I know what the button did before pressing it? No.
I’m not entirely sure what I expected to happen really, but what actually happened was that the treadmill suddenly did something I wasn’t prepared for and I discovered fairly quickly that Crocs aren’t particularly good footwear when you suddenly need to react on a moving treadmill.
I fell off. Quite literally, I flew off the back in quite a spectacular way. If you have seen videos on YouTube or TikTok of people flying off a moving treadmill, then you have a good idea of what happened.
Thankfully I was fine, although probably considerably more embarrassed than injured, and it was entirely my own fault. The treadmill has an emergency safety clip specifically designed to stop the belt if you stumble or fall, but of course I hadn’t attached mine because I was “only trying it”.
Lesson learned! I now wear proper trainers every time, attach the safety clip even if I’m only going on for a few minutes and generally try to find out what buttons do before pressing them.
If you’re new to using a treadmill, I would definitely recommend reading the manufacturer’s instructions properly before you start. I would always follow UREVO’s own instructions and safety information.
And whatever you do, don’t wear Crocs. Consider that particular piece of advice thoroughly tested on your behalf!
What is it actually like to use?
Once I’d stopped trying to launch myself off it, I started properly using the treadmill and I’ve been really impressed with it.
What I like most is the amount of choice I have. The speed starts at a very gentle 1km/h and goes all the way up to 20km/h, or around 12.4mph. You certainly won’t see me hurtling along at 20km/h any time soon, but I like knowing that I am not going to outgrow it if my fitness improves.
At the moment, I am mostly interested in walking and building my fitness back up gradually. Walking is such an underrated way to become more active, especially if you’re starting again after a period of doing less exercise, and having the treadmill sitting there means I don’t really have many excuses.
Rain? Doesn’t matter.
Cold? Doesn’t matter.
Can’t be bothered to go anywhere? Also doesn’t matter.
That last one is probably the most useful for me!
I can just get on and walk, and because the treadmill feels so sturdy and there is plenty of room on the belt, I can concentrate on whatever I’m listening to or watching rather than thinking constantly about where I’m putting my feet.
I have even tried running a little on it, and it has gone well. It is a slow process and one I am cautious about taking slowly due to my lung issues, but it is going well. In the coming weeks and months, I am hoping to run more and more often.
I didn’t expect to love the incline this much
If you’d asked me before I got this treadmill which features mattered most to me, I’m not sure I would have said the incline. Having used it for a month, though, I think it might actually be one of my favourite things about it.
The CyberMega has an automatic incline of up to 12%, so instead of making a walk harder simply by walking faster, I can increase the incline instead. I much prefer having that choice.
Some days I don’t particularly want to run or even walk very quickly, but I still fancy challenging myself a little more. Increasing the incline does that without making me feel as though the only way to get fitter is to keep going faster and faster.
It reminds me of walking outside when you don’t realise quite how steep a road is until you’re halfway up it and suddenly wondering why your legs are complaining!
If you’re trying to build your fitness gradually, there are so many different ways you could use this. You could start with comfortable flat walks, then gradually experiment with your speed or incline as your fitness improves rather than feeling as though you need to suddenly start running.
The NHS recommends adults aim to be physically active every day and spread activity across the week, but that doesn’t mean everyone needs to become a runner. Their physical activity guidelines for adults are actually a useful reminder that there are lots of different ways to be active.
Why having a treadmill at home is working for me
My relationship with exercise has changed quite a lot over the years. After I lost ten stone, I was doing loads of exercise and became quite focused on weight maintenance and calories burned generally. Since then my weight has changed, my life has changed and my attitude towards exercise has changed too.
These days I don’t want to exercise because I’ve eaten something I think I need to “burn off”, and I don’t want every walk to become a competition with myself over steps, calories or how fast I went. I want to move because it is good for me, because I want to improve my fitness and, ideally, because I actually enjoy what I’m doing.
I’ve written before about finding a fitness routine that works for you, and I think this treadmill is a really good example of that for me.
It removes lots of those tiny barriers that can so easily turn into reasons not to exercise.
If I only have twenty minutes, that’s fine because I don’t need to spend ten minutes travelling somewhere first. If I don’t feel particularly confident, nobody is watching me. If the weather is awful, it doesn’t affect me. If I want to watch something ridiculous on television while I walk, I can.
There is also something about having it sitting there that makes going for a quick walk feel like much less of an undertaking. I don’t need to announce that I’m doing a workout. I can just put my trainers on and get moving for a bit.
That suits me far better than an all-or-nothing approach to exercise.
How comfortable is it?
One of the things UREVO talks about with the CyberMega is its cushioning. It uses something they call a HiveTech suspension system with multiple points of shock absorption underneath the running area, which UREVO says is designed to make running and walking more comfortable and reduce impact.
I’m always a little careful with claims like that in reviews because I can’t independently measure how much impact a treadmill puts through someone’s joints, so I’m not going to give you a percentage or promise it will magically solve knee problems.
What I can tell you is what it feels like for me after using it for a month, and I find it really comfortable.
It doesn’t feel horribly hard under my feet and it also doesn’t have that strange bouncy feeling I’ve experienced on some exercise equipment. It just feels solid and comfortable enough that, once I’m walking, I don’t really think about the surface underneath me.
If joint problems make exercise difficult for you, I’ve shared some of my experiences and ideas in my article about exercising with bad knees, although obviously everyone’s joints and medical needs are different and you should get appropriate advice if you’re unsure what exercise is suitable for you.
What about all the smart features?
This is probably where the CyberMega can become considerably more advanced than I currently need it to be!
It has a large 13.8-inch display, which I really like because I can actually see what’s going on without squinting at tiny numbers while trying to walk. I can easily change what I’m doing from the treadmill too, so I don’t need to get my phone out every time I fancy a walk.
If you do want more technology involved, though, there is a UREVO app with different workouts and training options. There are even features for marathon training where it can recreate changes in terrain from actual marathon routes and automatically alter the incline as you go.
I don’t think anyone needs to start making a banner for me at the finish line of the London Marathon just yet, but I can appreciate how useful that could be for someone who is actually training seriously!
There are also audio coaching features and the ability to keep track of your workout information, and UREVO says it can sync workout data with Apple Health and Google Fit.
If you enjoy keeping track of that sort of thing, you might also like my guide to the best fitness trackers, especially if you want to track your walking and other exercise away from the treadmill too.
What I really like, though, is that none of the clever technology is compulsory. I don’t always want an app telling me what to do. Sometimes I just want to press start and walk, and I can.
Is the UREVO CyberMega only really for runners?
Not at all, and I think that’s worth saying because some of the features make it sound very running-focused.
If you’re a runner, there’s loads here for you. The maximum speed is 20km/h, there are the marathon training features and you can obviously use the incline for much more challenging sessions.
But I’m getting loads of use from it without doing any of that.
At the moment I am primarily walking on it and using the incline to make some walks harder than others. I like knowing that if I decide to introduce a bit of jogging later, I can, but I don’t feel like I’m wasting the treadmill because I’m not currently running.
I think it would also be particularly useful in a household where different people have very different fitness levels because one person could use it for gentle walking while someone else uses exactly the same treadmill for running.
If you only want to walk very slowly while working at a standing desk, however, this is probably more treadmill than you need. There are smaller walking pads designed specifically for that which would take up far less room.
Are there any things I don’t like?
I always find this section slightly awkward when I’ve genuinely liked something because I’m not going to invent faults just to make a review look balanced.
The main thing I would want you to know before buying the CyberMega is that you need space for it. Yes, it folds and yes, it has wheels, but it weighs over 60kg. This isn’t something you’re going to will be able to carry upstairs after every workout!
I would measure carefully and decide where you’re going to keep it before buying.
I’d also think about what you actually want from a treadmill. If you know you’ll never want to run, don’t care about incline and simply want something for slowly getting your steps in, you probably don’t need to spend the extra money on all the things this can do.
On the other hand, if you’re like me and want something you can walk on now but don’t want to be restricted if your fitness improves, having all that extra capability starts making much more sense.
Is the UREVO CyberMega worth the money?
This is one of the questions I think it’s important for me to answer properly because I was sent mine free of charge.
Receiving something as a review product isn’t the same as sitting down with your own bank card and deciding whether you want to spend that amount of money, and I’m never going to pretend it is.
The way I look at it instead is this: if I had paid for it, would I be happy with what I’d received? Yes, I would.
It feels like a proper piece of home gym equipment rather than a gadget. It is sturdy, comfortable, has far more speed than I currently need, gives me the option of incline and has plenty of more advanced features for if and when I want them.
Most importantly, though, I actually enjoy using it.
That matters far more to me than a huge specification list because I’ve had enough exercise equipment over the years to know that the most technically impressive machine in the world isn’t particularly useful if it ends up being used as an expensive clothes horse.
Would I recommend it after a month?
Absolutely. The novelty of having a new treadmill has worn off now, which I actually think makes this a much better time to review it. It isn’t the exciting new thing that’s just arrived in an enormous box anymore; it’s simply there as part of my normal life. And I’m still using it.
I’ve written before about ways to actually stick to exercise, and for me one of the biggest things is making exercise easy enough to fit around everything else. Having the CyberMega at home does exactly that.
I don’t have any grand plans to suddenly run every day or transform myself into someone who leaps out of bed desperate to exercise. I just want to move more, improve my fitness and enjoy doing it, and so far this has been a really good way for me to do that.
I can have an easy walk when that’s what I fancy, put the incline up when I want something harder and still have loads of room to progress if I decide I want to start running more in the future.
After a month, I genuinely love having it.
I would recommend measuring your space before ordering one.
I would definitely recommend attaching the emergency safety clip.
And, based on some particularly thorough personal research, I can also confirm that I do not recommend wearing Crocs on a treadmill.
You can see the UREVO CyberMega Smart Treadmill here to check the current price, full specifications and any current offers.
If you do buy one, please put your trainers on before you start pressing mystery buttons. Someone might as well benefit from my mistakes!
Everyone’s health and fitness are different, so always choose exercise that is appropriate for you and follow the manufacturer’s safety instructions when using exercise equipment.
