Peloton Unveils Three Treadmills With AI Running Analysis and Sled Mode

The Tread Flex is Peloton's cheapest treadmill and its cheapest product to date, although it will not be available outside the US until spring 2027. It is designed for smaller spaces and smaller budgets and is Peloton's first folding treadmill. It has four caster wheels that let users tow it in an upright configuration without tools. Nick Caldwell, Peloton's chief product officer, told TechRadar that the company put a lot of work into the design. He said it is 46% of the footprint of the Tread Vision base platform and is super quiet, offering folding and flex capability along with new software features.

Among those software features is ReRun, which extracts and replicates the elevation profile of real-world routes, such as parts of the New York City Marathon, on the treadmill. The Tread adjusts its gradient automatically to replicate the route and shows progress on a virtual map. Megan Imbres, Peloton's chief marketing officer, told TechRadar that some routes will be built in out of the box, and that the New York City Marathon will be broken into five digestible chunks for dialed-in training. Imbres added that runners will be able to upload GPX files from outdoor runs and replicate them on the treadmill.

The Tread Vision is a more powerful, non-folding, AI-powered model starting at $3,495 / £2,999 / AU$4,999. It has a new cushioning system underneath the tread for more comfort and energy return, and a redesigned button system with jump-up and jump-down options alongside the existing dial system. Its main new feature is a Movement Tracking Camera. Caldwell told TechRadar that Peloton created a new form feedback system for runners that uses vertical displacement to count steps, provide a cadence figure and tell whether form is correct and running efficiency is being maximized. The system covers vertical oscillation and cadence, gives a Running Efficiency Score and provides personalized AI-powered feedback.

Peloton has used similar features in products such as the Peloton Guide and earlier Cross Training devices, but this is the first time it has applied them to a treadmill. Caldwell said the company has already seen the system improve people doing marathon preparation, and he indicated it is more accurate than similar running-efficiency metrics from wearables such as Garmin watches.

The top model, the Tread Vision Plus, costs $6,695, with pricing for other regions to be confirmed. It includes Sled Mode, a Hyrox-style workout in which users grip two vertical bars and replicate a sled-pushing exercise against variable levels of resistance. Caldwell told TechRadar that one other competitor has this on the market and that treadmill costs $15,000. He said that for around $7,000 US, buyers get immense value in the form of the highest-quality energy return service and Sled Mode.

All three treadmills include Peloton IQ features such as ReRun and an IQ Pace Target, which uses AI to calculate times for users to aim for across various distances. Peloton said these features are also coming to historic treadmills. Imbres told TechRadar that the only thing gated is Run Analysis because it uses the computer vision camera, adding that Peloton's philosophy is to give features to everyone if the hardware allows it.

Peloton remains synonymous with stationary exercise equipment despite the company's ups and downs. It experienced huge highs as Covid forced people to exercise indoors and became a market leader in treadmills and exercise bikes, even if it was never quite able to recapture its earlier cultural position as restrictions lifted and people returned to gyms. Six years on, the premium exercise equipment company shows no sign of slowing down. Its slickly produced live and recorded classes feature instructors who are treated like celebrities, and its algorithmic, addictive content meshes with its high-end machinery to make what the source calls a magic formula that keeps Peloton power users addicted to indoor cardio.