A treadmill arrangement, comprising a treadmill frame and an endless belt driven by a drive and running across rollers held in the treadmill frame and whose surface serves as a walking or running surface, with handholds being mounted at upwardly extending side parts or a front part of the treadmill frame on both sides of the belt, and wherein a force sensor system with a holding force evaluation device on the output side for the time-dependent registration and optionally evaluation processing of the holding force, which is subject to the direction in space, introduced by the user into the or each handhold when using the treadmill arrangement and/or actuating means for controlling a parameter and/or a function of the treadmill arranged are assigned to at least one of the handholds.