Sunday, December 23, 2007

Health and Fitness

Health and Fitness Tips - Fitness equipment-Home Gym:

Fitness equipment like a home gym enables you to do strength training. Using strength training equipment allows you to exercise with weights that provide resistance. Resistance training works to increase muscle mass, enabling you to tone and sculpt your body.

In traditional-style home gyms, resistance comes from a weight stack. Weights can be disc or blocks and are attached to the machine with a system of cables and pulleys. A typical weight stack should support weights as low as 10 lbs. and as high as 200 lbs.

Recently, home gyms have come on to the market that utilize bows or heavy-duty elastic bands to provide resistance. These machines are often less expensive than weight-stack models,
but require more adjustment when changing exercises.

More at: http://www.fitnessattitudes.com/fitnessequipment.html

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