Multigym part II
For those of you, who don’t have enough money to buy brand-new machines there’s always a possibility to look for discount home gyms. This option is worth considering if you accept buying used machines.
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Pay attention to manufacturers or resellers selling new equipment as a “discount gyms”. In most of the cases this is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. A longer post about discount equipment will arise soon, for a moment I just give you some advice where to look for it. The easiest option is to go to amazon com or ebay. However I would recommend you to try craiglist or gumtree first. Easier to find someone near you, and go to see the machine you are looking for, instead of just clicking “order now”, free shipping etc. You never know what you get.
Stairmaster
Stairmaster… price and manufacturer and the name of the product… well… I can’t. It seems simply too grotesque for me. Maybe because I’ve always lived in houses with a lot of stairs so I walked up and down many times a day and looking at ladies walking on the stairmaster machine seems too absurd to me.Ok, almost everything is absurd if you look from the right angle, however some things and behaviors tend to be more absurd than other.
So I’m very sorry, I can’t write about stairmaster, not today, I’ll ask my wife to write about it later, she’s a more serious person and more comprehensible, her text will be better. Instead I’ll write about the Wireless Heart Rate Strap which I’ve found on the Smooth Fitness website. Why? Because this is one of those companies with a good website and first-class fitness equipment like others mentioned in this post. They sell mainly treadmills and elliptical machines but have also some accessories. The most expensive is Wireless Heart Rate Strap: $50. Oh, I’m very sorry, 49,99 of course. What does it do? Well, simply give you information how close you are to a heart attack if you run or ellipse too far, too fast, too strong. A very, very long time ago people simply felt if they were ok or not, however today we don’t feel anything anymore, we need digital information and numbers to know if our heart still beats or would prefer to sleep.
Multigym
Name of the product: Total Gym XLS, manufacturer: Total Gym, price: $974. It could be more expensive comparing to treadmills or rowing machines but we have to accept this price as it is. I was a little bit suspicious at the beginning but it seems that there are really many exercises you can perform on this total multigym system. More than 80, they say. Even if they exaggerate a little bit, 30 exercises is still a high number.
Total Gym
The sample workout is: squat, single leg squat, pull up, leg curl, cross cable row, seated biceps curl, outer hip and thigh, oblique twister, seated chest press, front pullover, pullover with crunch, lying triceps extension, shoulder press, core extension, toe touch stretch. Well, not bad for $974. A huge advantage is that this whole machine is easily folded, 1 minute and 3 seconds on the video, and you are done. And without problems you can hide this type of home gyms under your bed. The machine itself is promoted by Chuck Norris and Christine Brinkley however I don’t remember any movies with either of them so I have no opinion on this matter. I prefer expensive equipment but in this case they offer free shipping and free back money guarantee trial for 30 days which is worth checking into. I’m afraid only in Colorado, Lahore is a little bit too far perhaps, once I find a Pakistan reseller I’ll let you know. Well, maybe I made a mistake. I’ve choose the most expensive one from home gym machines but now I see they have also professional Total Gym /serial numbers/ which are expensive as expected, it means $2,895 and you can perform over 200 exercises using it. Well, it’s too late, I’ve written already about the other one so if you have any questions concerning the better second one ask Chuck Norris.
Power rack
Power rack itself it’s one of the things archeologists in 50,000 years will ask themselves “What did they use it for?” So, if you don’t know what it is, there’s a picture attached. Name of the product: York STS Power Rack, manufacturer: York, price: $1,119. This power rack comes with combo grip pull-up bar, one pair of double bar holders, 12 pegs of weight storage, stainless steel hook-plates, 2 holders of bar storage and 1 pair of interior safety spot bars. Length 185 cm, width 170 cm, height 244 cm, and weight 131 kg. Nothing more particularly interesting about this power rack however I like the York company, their website and other products, so I mention one of their home gym machines.
Weight benches
Fitness Bench
The last product is a weight bench from KAR-MET called BEN100. There is only one reason I include this machine in this post: look at the design. Great! And they have a lot more, really sexy fitness designs of home gyms. It gives me strong motivation to exercise every day when I think I can touch this bench and by touching it become so attractive and stay in a good shape. There is however a big mystery about this company. For some reason they don’t have any information in English, maybe they export only to Estonia, God knows why, they don’t give literally any info about prices, the same God remains silent, and they don’t give any opportunity to buy it online. So, dear KAR-MET, what’s the problem? Webmaster? Translator? Marketing? Just email me. If you know how to use email, of course.
And for dessert: if you are not so rich as I am, who craps with money and therefore buys the most expensive and sophisticated home gym machines for my own home studio, you can always do what my colleague did. A real man, not a media made pumped up doll. Look at his home gyms. Apparently he doesn’t use a lot of pilates machines. I would add a exercise wall mirror at the left. Maybe.
Home Gym Machines