How to own the best Home Gym

by Matt Walker

Equipment for developing your fitness are made for two exercise types. Equipment specifically for resistance training and equipment for aerobic fitness. For a total workout, a home gym, therefore, should comprise both types of equipment.

Aerobic equipment improves your cardiovascular fitness and burns surplus calories. Exercise bikes and treadmills, as well as rowers and elliptical trainers are common aerobic fitness equipment. Aerobic exercise, used frequently, makes your heart muscle stronger together with reducing excess weight.

Resistance training equipment increases the strength and size of your muscles. The range of resistance training equipment is big, including barbells, dumbbells, benches and an array of single and multi exercise machines. Getting bigger muscles has the positive side effect of increasing our resting metabolic rate, that helps us to lose weight.

The home gym is the most well known multi exercise machine. A home gym is convenient because they are available in a range of prices and sizes for every budget. Also, they are an all-in-one exercise machine for the entire body.

Home gyms come with alternative mechanisms of resistance. For example, Bowflex home gyms use power rods that flex when resistance is applied so they look like a bow. Popular gyms from this brand include the Bowflex Blaze, Bowflex PR3000 and the Bowflex PR1000.

The Total Gym 1800 Club and the Weider Total Body Works 5000, on the other hand, use a bench with pulleys on an incline that generates resistance directly from the user’s own body weight.

Finally, the popular Trx Suspension Training Pro Pack is designed as a portable gym that attaches to any door and uses gravity and body weight for developing resistance.

To keep your advancement on track, there are numerous tips you can work with when starting out. The first is to write down some short term and long term goals, the details of the program you are to follow, including the time frame.

To take this further you can assess your fitness status before, during and after your program. Body fat composition stats, one rep strength levels, before, during and after photographs and body part measurements would be useful for such an assessment. Then to track your progress suitably, you can use an exercise and nutrition journal. Keeping detailed notes aids in evaluating how well the program is working and how close your are to your goals. Good luck with your fitness goals!

A Home Gym gives you the freedom to do a full body workout with one machine, the motivation to get the body you desire, the privacy to workout without any embarrassment, and the convenience to do all of this in your own home. Peruse our inlcusive reviews on the Bowflex Blaze and the Weider Total Body Works 5000.

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