Home Gym Buying Tips
A home gym offers people a way to get overall strength and toning benefits for the major muscle groups right from the comfort and privacy of their own home. The person shopping for a home gym wants to avoid joining a club, paying dues and taking time out to drive down to a busy and noisy environment, making sure their possessions are safe and showering in a public place.
Many of the home gyms such as the Marcy Home Gym have all the features found in fitness equipment found in the clubs. A person can get a good weight training workout for their entire body. Traditionally designed machines have vertically stack weight plates that are adjustable with the simple removal and replacement of a metal pin. Cables and pulleys are attached to these centrally located weights and are pulled during the exercise movements. The Body Solid EXM1500S Single Stack Home Gym is one example which operates on this mechanism.
The Bowflex Blaze Home Gym however uses Power Rods rather than weights to provide the tension or resistance for the exercises.
Unlike individual pieces of fitness equipment, these home gyms provide the user with all the necessary accessories or parts to perform weight training exercises for the entire body in one station.
Home gyms will not turn people into bodybuilders by themselves, nor does give a real aerobic workout. They are designed primarily for general conditioning and strength building.
Prices for home gyms vary. They can be priced near the mid hundreds all the way up to the low thousands.
Warrantees on home gyms also vary. Marcy offers a two year limited warantee on its home gym. Blowflex offers five years on its machine but lifetime on their Power Rods. Body Solid will replace any part of its home gym forever.
The majority of home gym users are happy owners. These people only had minor issues with the features of these gyms.
Know the measurements to the room or space in your home you plan to do your workouts. Go to any store that has home gyms set up for customers to try. Measure the home gym you are interested in on display to make sure it will fit in your home. See if it looks well designed and constructed. Try a few exercises and notice if it feels smooth, solid, stable and runs quietly. Find out if it allows you to do the full extension of an exercise or if it can isolate muscles. These are just a few things to think about to help you make the right choice in a home gym.
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