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Horizon Fitness Treadmill
Wide Range of Models for Home Use
Horizon Fitness makes a wide variety of medium priced treadmills designed for home use. A minimally equipped and featured model for home use may sell for under $500, while a full-featured, heavy-duty machine may command more than $2,200. Horizon Fitness emphasizes the “three Cs” of a home fitness machine: [...]
Powertec Fitness Equipment
Everything For The Home Or Commercial Gym
Powertec Fitness Equipment is a complete line of sturdy, well-engineered workout machines, racks and accessories for health and fitness clubs or a home gym. They manufacture both plate-loading devices and racks incorporating free-weights for every type of fitness and muscle-building exercise. Powertec equipment is for both the serious powerlifter/bodybuilder [...]
Exercise Gym
An Exercise Gym, Heath Club, Fitness Club, Grunt-And-Groan Palace, Body Factory or whatever you choose to call it is a place where you go to exercise in a variety of means and with an assortment of free weights, equipment and floor exercise areas. The whole purpose of these endeavors is physical fitness and good health. The level of luxury (of the equipment) and beauty of the surroundings will vary as much as the type of equipment and exercises used for those goals. Regardless of whether the exercise gym is a chrome-plated palace with soft, upbeat music playing over the loudspeakers, or a sweat-stained iron-pumpers club where the main sounds are the grunts and groans of the exercisers, a properly applied program will achieve similar results in both settings . . . or all of those in between.
Compact Treadmills
The treadmill area of any fitness club is one of the most popular exercise areas. Most treadmills are very flexible on how much work is programmed into each session, as well as how much elevation, the speed of the belt, how long a session and variables applied during the session; walk, fast-walk, run, raised elevation, lowered elevation and the like. Most of the large, commercial treadmills are heavy and take up a considerable amount of space. The treadmill area of the health and fitness center is usually one of the larger as far as space allocation for the number of machines available. Only the floor exercise area will be larger.
Children Fitness Equipment
In what our kids call “The Olden Days” the only fitness equipment for children was found in the playgrounds that used to abound in any city or town. Parallel bars, swings, monkey-bars and other assorted steel-pipe-set-in-the-ground-in-concrete apparatuses were there to facilitate fitness in children by encouraging them to climb and swing like monkeys. Concerns about safety and in an effort to prevent our children from getting any bumps, bruises and scrapes (none of which harmed their parents or grandparents in any permanent way), much of this playground equipment is gone. It has been replaced by plastic devices with no sharp edges or exposed fasteners, all designed like boxes and pipes, but without much to challenge those little bodies into developing any muscles.
Swiss Ball Exercises
Exercises for all levels of fitness
The Swiss Ball, also called the “fit-ball or “physio-ball”, is an inflated, elastic ball available in several sizes from about 2 ½ feet in diameter for the largest to smaller sizes of about half that. The Swiss Ball can be used for a wide variety of exercises by people of [...]
Folding Exercise Bikes
One of the most popular areas in any fitness club is that where the stationary exercise bikes are located. Using the exercise bike to warm up the body or to perform cardio-vascular fitness routines is enjoyed by people at all levels of fitness. The resistance and speed may be controlled to provide a good workout [...]
Treadmill Motor: The Heart of this Exercise Machine
The first treadmills were used to generate power for operating equipment and were often part of the equipment itself; mills, irrigations systems, lathes and other machinery. The motive power for early treadmills was “Shank’s Mare,” or the legs and feet of the person using the machine. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution and electrical power, the need for treadmills was gone. Exercise and fitness trainers and equipment developers saw the treadmill as an excellent machine for personal fitness. Modern iterations of the treadmill are very sophisticated and quite complex machines. The amount of work performed may be carefully controlled by varying the speed and attitude of the device.
Finding Treadmills for Cheap
While brand new exercise equipment might look great with all of the polished chrome and gadgetry, it is not necessary to invest a great deal of money in order to set up a basic home gym. If you know where to look, you can find treadmills for cheap, as well as other types of exercise [...]