Treadmill

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a treadmill which is capable of automatically measuring the stride of running or walking and indicating or recording it.
A treadmill of the present invention comprises landing detection means for detecting a foot landing on a running surface, timer means for measuring a landing time distance between the detected landing times, and stride calculating means for calculating a stride by multiplying the lading time distance measured by a running speed.
The treadmill of the invention is capable of automatically measuring the real time stride of walking or running or the moving average stride by real-time or intermittent measurement and thus enables persons to perform self training of walking or running while being aware of the stride.
The treadmill is also extremely effective for guiding sport training.
The treadmill can also be used for walk training of persons of advanced age or guiding the persons in walk training for maintaining or promoting health.
The applicability of the treadmill or the age group using the treadmill is also widened.
The treadmill is provided with a stride discriminating means for distributing the strides calculated for a predetermined number of steps to a group of even numbers of steps and a group of odd numbers of steps, and an average stride calculating means for respectively calculating average strides of the even and odd groups so that a difference between the strides of the right and left feet can be recognized.