Exercise Equipment

Before choosing between home and commercial fitness equipment, you should note that there are low and high quality values for both of them. Just because you bought a commercial exercise machine, doesn’t mean it will exceed a home exercise machine in quality. Their purposes are different, as are their expectations. Don’t buy a home exercise bike if you plan to put it in a gym and don’t buy a commercial exercise treadmill if you plan to use it home…you will simply pay more for something that you won’t be able to use at its full potential.

Besides price, you might find a few more advantages to home exercise machines. They are usually less rigid and require less room and they will have extra built-in features especially designed for home use. For example home exercise bikes might have bottle holders or treadmills might have book holders so you can read while exercising. Their breakdown rate will likely be higher than with commercial fitness equipment, although you will not notice this, since your equipment won’t sustain the pressure a gym’s commercial equipment would.

Home fitness equipment is cheaper, compared to commercial fitness equipment, but it also lacks the lifespan of the latter. Because of its nature, commercial exercise equipment will either be used by professional athletes or in gyms, thus being the subject of a great amount of stress. Commercial fitness equipment will most likely last longer and it will have a better warranty, but all these come at a much greater price. Because commercial exercise equipment manufacturers are less numerous as home fitness equipment ones, the rules of the capitalist market will apply: less competition, higher price.

Nowadays, when time is getting shorter and shorter, our health gets somewhat neglected in favor of our daily problems. In order to keep your body and mind healthy, you have two options: going to a gym and training on commercial exercise equipment, or buying home fitness equipment. In the following posts I will try to provide the required information, so you can choose between these two types of fitness equipment.

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If the room permits it, try to have a machine that works each muscle group separately. For example, try to have a push-up bench for your chest, a press for your legs, some dumbbells or pulleys for your arms, a suspended grip for your back, etc. In addition to these, you should also have an aerobic exercise machine like a treadmill or an exercise bike, in order to keep the muscles you build at the other machines fat-free. Remember that in order to have a good looking body you must increase and shape your muscles and lose weight in order to fully exploit them.

In order to have a complete home gym, you must have both types of exercise equipment: aerobic and anaerobic. Aerobic equipment consists of treadmills, elliptical trainers, exercise bikes or rowers. They are the kind of exercise machines you use to lose weight, keep in shape and gain lean muscles. On the other hand, anaerobic equipment consists of push-up benches, extension presses, pulleys, or other equipment that you use for gaining muscle mass and shaping your physique the way you want. The difference between the two exercise equipment types is that you use the first to lose weight (or stop putting on more weight) and the second to gain muscle mass (or work out a specific muscle group).

First thing you need is free space. If you have a big enough house, you can free up one of your rooms or if your garage is big enough (for example if you have a 2-car garage and only have one car), you can set up a small gym in there. Basements are also popular places for home gyms, so if you can loose the stuff in your basement, you can establish your workout grounds there. Another solution would be to set up the equipment on your yard, but weather will still be a major problem in this case. Depending on the number of exercise machines you want to use, you can set up your gym in any location of your household you feel comfortable training in.

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