Archive for the ‘Exercise Equipments’ Category

Build Your Own Gym

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Keeping healthy and fit is what everyone wants. For keeping good fitness is possible in two ways, one by joining a gym or fitness centre and two by bringing gym home. The second option is a quite expensive deal as home gym exercise equipments are costly. The health cannot be sacrificed on money. Here is the list of some home gym exercise equipments and their prices:

  • Cardio Equipments: Keep your heart fit with cardio equipments like Elliptical Trainers range between $1500 to $3000, Exercise Bikes price range between $500 to $2500, Recumbent Bikes price range between $800 to $5000, Rowing machine price range between $800 to $1500, Spinners price range between $800 to $2500, Steppers and Stair Climbers price range between $100 to $1000 and Treadmills price range between $1500 to $3500.
  • Weight Lifting Equipments: Increase your strength level with Dumbbells/plates/bars price range between $10 to $1000, Weight benches price range between $200 to $2500, Weight machine price range between $160 to $3000, pull up and chin up bars price range between $30 to $800, Step benches price range between $50 to $200, Power rack system range from $400 to $3500, etc.
  • Fitness Equipments: You can stay fit with Balance board’s price range between $30 to $200, Exercise balls price range between $30 to $100, Exercise mats price range between $30 to $500, Exercise bands price range between $40 to $150, Inversion table price range between $50 to $500, etc.

If you plan to buy home gym equipment, research on the internet for the best buys. You can check the equipment reviews which will give you a comparison on the prices from different manufacturers. You can read the guide to home gym equipment to get a better idea.

Equipment Guide For Arm Exercises

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Building body muscles is a job of rigorous workout and the most visible parts with muscles are chest and arms. The hand muscles consist of three parts, which are basically worked on while building muscles. These three parts are biceps visible at the upper front of the arms, triceps visible at the upper back of the arms and forearms which is the lower half of the arms. There is a variety of equipments to build the arm muscles. Some of the arms exercising equipments based on the arm muscles are:

  • For Biceps: To build the bicep muscles you can try the barbell curls, hammer curls, dumbbell curls, dumbbell curl using an incline bench, etc. Some of the exercising equipments are Arm curl machine, Barbell muti-exercise bar, barbell arm blaster, bicep bomber, weight adjustable biceps, barbell solid super curl bar, pro-style straight bar, incline benches, preacher curl benches, and dumbbells with weights.
  • For Triceps: To build the triceps muscles you need to do bench press with close grip, lying barbells, triceps push down, triceps dumbbell, dumbbells kick backs and bench dips. For these exercises you need triceps ropes, flat bench, barbells, and varieties of dumbbells, weight sets and plates, ropes with pulleys, etc.
  • For Forearms: To build the forearms muscles you can do barbell wrist curl, reverse curls, barbell reverse wrist curls, dumbbell wrist curls and dumbbell reverse wrist curls. The equipments you need for the forearm exercise are barbells, dumbbells, flat bench, inclined bench, inclined seated bench, weight sets and plates, etc.

Your arm consists of many more muscles other than the three major parts discussed. But the other muscles get automatically get toned and built when you exercise on your biceps, triceps and forearm muscles.

Equipments to Build Strong Chest

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

For bodybuilders chest is one of the most important parts to build muscles on. This is because chest muscles are very visible and noticeable. Even in women building chest muscles is one of the important things to give form to their body, though they don’t build chest like men. You can build your chest muscles with the help of numerous weight lifting machines and equipments. The right set of equipments for chest built up is a combination of weight bench, weight set, a core ball and pushups. The various types of chest exercise equipments available are:

  • The most basic equipment is the weight benches with the racks. When you do your bench press exercise you need an area to place the weights, which is possible with the weight benches if they are along with racks.
  • The other must equipment is weight sets. The basic weight sets are dumbbells, barbells and the weights as per your requirement. You can have firm amendable barbells where you can effortlessly change the weights. For the dumbbells you can buy either an amendable or preset ones. You should keep the weight sets of different weight.
  • Core balls are very good chest equipment as they allow you to concentrate more on different parts of your pectoral muscles. You can perform different versions of dumbbell exercises. Core ball exercise gets more stretch to your pecs.
  • The perfect pushups equipment allows you to get deeper pushups and also allows more stretch to the muscles.

For your chest workouts you can join a gym where you can get plenty of options for the equipments or if you want to do your training in private you can bring gym at home.

Equipment To Build Body

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

You can get great body and great health by doing fitness exercises. The bodybuilders who have the aim of achieving a muscular body need lots of workout. They usually attend the training sessions at the gym with a trainer and some like to practice the same at home. The bodybuilding equipments are popular by Body craft, Body Solid, Power Block, Powerline, Powertec, Powerlift, Xodus, Star tac, and many more manufacturers. These brands sell all type of equipments ranging from complete home gym to machines for specific workouts. Here is the list of some of the main bodybuilding equipments:

  • Benches For Chest Exercises: For bodybuilding exercise benches are very important. You can buy decline bench, a bench press, an incline bench, a 4-in-1 bench press, a flat bench, a flat bench with incline, an adjustable incline bench, a seated bench, a vertical chest press, a multi angle bench, a multi chest press, a crunch bench, etc.
  • Weight Plate and Sets: You certainly need weights to build muscles. You can workout with Ab crunch harness, weight sets with or without dumbbells, arm blaster, T-Bar row platform, etc.
  • Dumbbells: You can get plenty types of dumbbells like Rubber encased dumbbells, urethane encased dumbbells, dumbbell workout combo, etc.
  • Leg Machine: To build your leg and thigh muscles you can buy, leg press, leg extension, leg curl, standing calf, quad blaster, leg press with calf raise, plate loaded seated calf, squat and bench rack, squat press, four way hip sled, outer thigh machine, inner thigh machine, hip and leg sled, etc.

The bodybuilding equipments are very expensive, so you can create your own gym at home very slowly. Also, you can buy the second hand equipments or multi-functionality equipments.