Like Adaptive Cruise Control on your car, Glide Mode automatically adjusts the treadmill speed to match your speed.

Glide Mode

Motor-driven treadmills rely on a forced feedback loop from the participant in order to adjust the speed or pace. You must set a speed for the treadmill to operate at and keep up with it, which doesn’t allow for micro-biomechanic adjustments that occur in natural running. Current self-pacing treadmills on the market cannot provide the pre-programmed workouts that most gym users expect.

The IMPOWER treadmill, created by a team of university researchers, is the world’s first biomechanics-based self-pacing treadmill. Executives from leading treadmill companies identified our prototype as on par with the best industry attempts. The IMPOWER treadmill uses a coordinated sensor system and algorithm to detect your center of mass and leg swing to sense your position and adjust the treadmill speed accordingly.