by admin on August 9, 2009

Weight benches are an absolute necessity for home gyms and any fitness gym, commercial, non-profit, or private gym studios. Without weight benches, you’re limiting the number of weight lifting exercises that can be done. Anyone looking to build muscle and get stronger will need a bench to perform the basic fundamental compound exercises.
There’s no other [...]
by admin on August 7, 2009

With just a simple basic home gym setup, you can do strength training workouts at home. Building a home gym does not cost thousands of dollars as you might’ve previously thought. You don’t have to buy all those fancy weight resistance and cable machines you see at the sports gyms. All it takes is a [...]
by admin on June 29, 2009

In part 1 of this home gym series, we talked about the basic and primary exercise equipment for a home gym setup. Here in part 2, I’ll outline the extra accessories and workout tools to further complete your home gym.
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You’ll see additional pictures of more equipment from my basement gym. These accessories aren’t [...]
by admin on June 29, 2009

This is part 1 of a 2-part series on building your own home gym. You may be thinking of building a home gym right now but unsure of the best approach. Should you go with machines? full bench setups? What equipment should you buy? How much do they cost? These might be questions on your [...]
by admin on June 28, 2009

Strength Training is resistance training. Bodybuilding workouts uses resistance to stimulate and thrash your muscles into new growth. But resistance training is still resistance training. Whether you’re trying to maintain or gain new muscles, or lose fat, you’re using resistance as a stimulus for body composition purposes and goals.
Resistance is really just extra loading, extra [...]
by admin on June 28, 2009

When using the a timed or density method for interval distance and body weight workouts, keeping track of the time and rest periods is necessary to maintain the workout’s work rate and work to rest ratio. You’ll need to monitor the clock or stop watch for each interval. Now constantly monitoring a watch or clock [...]
by admin on June 28, 2009

A weight belt provides the versatility of additional loading and resistance to compound body weight exercises like chinups, dips, and pullups. Progressive overload, especially weight loading, is the name of the game in strength training and weight lifting progress. A weight belt offers the solution for weight progression when your body has adapted to just [...]