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Home Fitness Equipment

Weider PowerMax Review

The Weider PowerMax isn’t expensive and it is easy to use, easy to be stored away in your closet, or even to be carried in your traveling bags. The equipment is simple and the only thing that you need is the weight of your body to create resistance to your workout efforts. From here you [...]

Ab Machine Buying Guide

Abdominal trainers are extremely popular among home gym junkies – they’re also the item of choice for television infomercials, making the purchase of a quality ab machine a very confusing experience. Well, let me try to simplify it for you. There are definitely some good quality abdominal machines on the market today for reasonable prices. [...]

Best Home Fitness Equipment Brands

Home fitness equipment is a billion dollar industry with many brands, both American and international, competing for a larger share of the market. With so many different brands offering many types of fitness equipment from treadmills to elliptical machines, it can be hard for consumers to decipher which brands to trust and which brands to [...]

Great Gadgets to Get You Moving

So, I was doing my usual Internet search for the latest and greatest in fitness trends when I came across a couple of really interesting posts. The first article was about a little device called the Fitbit Tracker.  This little guy is like the pedometer’s much cooler, much hipper younger brother.  The Fitbit Tracker doesn’t just track the [...]

What Is A BOSU Ball and What Can It Do For You?

If you’ve never seen a BOSU trainer, it looks like someone chopped the top off a stability  ball and glued it to a hard, flat, plastic base.  BOSU is actually an acronym that stands for Both Sides Utilized or Both Sides Up depending on the context being used - I’ll get a little more into that in a minute. When [...]

Black Friday Fitness Equipment Bonanza

Hey guys…just thought I’d let you know about an amazing ‘Black Friday’ promotion that Smooth Fitness is running at the moment. From now until December 1st Smooth Fitness are selling the Smooth CE 2.0 Elliptical at the never seen before price of $699! They are also giving an extra 1 year labor warranty on their [...]

Do “All-in-One” Weight Training Machines Really Work?

All-in-one trainers usually do well in the home gym market because they provide affordability, ease of use and reduced space requirements.  While there are many of these machines on the market today that are of high quality and will give users a great workout, there are just as many that are poorly constructed and will end up being more [...]