Are walking pads worth it? I swapped my outdoor walks for treadmill strolls for 3 weeks to find out

Susan Griffin standing on a walking pad next to close-up view of the Citysports walking pad LED panel, researching are walking pads worth it.

I'm a great lover of being outside. I'll always choose to pull on my walking shoes and get outdoors over a home workout, even when the weather isn't on my side. But after seeing countless videos of women walking their way to 10,000 steps without leaving the house, I started to wonder: are walking pads worth it?

I set one up in my living room for almost a month, and within the first 10 minutes, I had the sudden urge to attempt my strongest catwalk strut.