All Entries in the "Fitness Equipment" Category
An Overview of Low-Impact Fitness Equipment
Basketball, tennis, soccer and more are all great ways to exercise. They require only inexpensive equipment, get you out in the fresh air and provide a full body workout with huge cardiovascular benefits. But sports like these can be very hard on the joints. They stress the knees and ankles and may be inappropriate for [...]
How to Choose the right Fitness Equipment
The right criteria to use to evaluate fitness equipment might surprise you. If asked, quality might leap to mind. Or budget, or safety. All those and more are important. But the most important criterion of all is represented by the question: will you use it?
That’s not just a question about your personal motivation or commitment [...]
Optimize Your Workout With Fitness Accessories
You could do photography with just a bare camera. But to get the most out of it you need accessories. The same idea applies to fitness equipment. You could get by with the bare minimum. But having a few accessories raises the value of your equipment manyfold.
Some of these are often built into or come [...]
Features That An Elliptical Trainer Must Have
Elliptical trainers are fast becoming serious competition for the traditional treadmill. Part of the reason is the boredom factor. It can be hard to get enthused about a workout day after day using only a treadmill. But the other aspect is that ellipticals simply provide a great range of motion for a great workout. They [...]
The advantages of Weight Machines
Free weights, dumbbells, barbells… all great tools. But a weight machine has advantages that they just can’t match.
They’re much safer. True, you have to exercise caution when you use one. But the odds of dropping a weight at the wrong angle are eliminated and spotting someone on a machine is much, much easier.
They’re simple to [...]
Taking a Closer Look at Pilates Equipment
These days the term Pilates is almost meaningless, little more than a marketing ploy. There are so many different exercises and programs that go by that name, and no official body to decide which is genuine, that just about anything goes. But within that chaos there is a core set that will require specific equipment.
Sometimes [...]
