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Featured Fitness Equipment Articles

Home Gyms Checklist: Are You In The Know?
I bet you're frustrated over the long lines at your local gym. Furthermore, I bet you don't appreciate being charged an extra $45 every month for a gym membership that you might not even use any more. Well, a home gym might just be the answer to what you ...

Movement That Matters: Exercise With a Greater Purpose
You've seen the commercials Ive fallen and I cant get up! While this has been a topic of many jokes and late-night comedy skits, the reality is falling is a very real danger for many people. Too often falls can lead to broken bones, hospitalization, and ...

No Excuses Exercises
It's old news that exercising is the single best way to spark up your weight loss efforts. The activity perks up your metabolism, and eats up more calories. In addition, the more you exercise, the better the effect. Exercising builds muscle mass, which is ...




5 Big Reasons To Buy Adjustable Dumbbells
 
Just imagine if you could replace a room full of weight machines with one piece of fitness equipment without it costing you an arm or a leg! Well adjustable dumbbells might just be the solution you've been looking for.

Adjustable dumbbells are one of the best investments you can make in your home gym. If you still need convincing, check out the following 5 reasons why you need to grab your own adjustable dumbbell set.

1. Range of exercises

One of the main advantages of dumbbells over traditional weight machines is that you can perform a number of different exercises without changing machines. You can easily change from doing bicep curls to tricep kickbacks just by changing your body position. So instead of buying 4 different machines to get a total body workout you just need one adjustable dumbbell set.

2. Price

If you look around today you could easily spend $1000's of dollars on different pieces of exercise equipment just to work different muscle groups. Surprisingly you can get a set of adjustable dumbbells for only $200-$300 depending on the weight of the set. Considering the range of exercises you can perform this is fantastic value for money!

Compare this price to your local gym membership and you'll quickly see why this is such good value.

3. Convenience of adjustability

This is what makes adjustable dumbbells so great and what differentiates them from traditional dumbbells. By using a simple quick change pin you can instantly change from one dumbbell weight to the next. Think of it like a pin loaded weight machine but with dumbbells. Because you change the dumbbell weight with a pin you don't need a room full of


dumbbells which can get in the way and cost a lot of money.

4. Space

Unlike traditional dumbbells which need a dumbbell rack and lots of space to store, adjustable dumbbells sit on a stand so can be tucked away in the corner of a room. That way you can leave more space for the larger fitness equipment like ellipticals or treadmills.

If you have been putting off building your home gym because of a lack of space you now have no excuse!!

5. Maximum Muscular development

Dumbbells, also known as free weights, are the best for maximizing muscular development. Because they are less stable than machine weights you have to use more muscles (stabilizing muscles) to help support the weight and exercise with proper form. If you have every tried performing both a traditional bench press and a dumbbell press you'll know that using dumbbells are a lot harder.

A person who can bench press 200lb x 8 reps with a traditional bar might only be able to do 160lb (80lb per hand) x 8 reps with dumbbells simple because you have to work harder to stabilize the weight.

So there you have it. What excuses do you have now? Make a smart decision and put adjustable dumbbells at top of your home gym priority list.






Fitness Equipment News



Planet Fitness opening in Oneida (The Oneida Daily Dispatch)
ONEIDA -There's a judgment free zone in Oneida. Planet Fitness is opening in the Glenwood Plaza within the next two weeks.

No Payne Fitness: The Landmine (FOX 5 Washington D.C.)
We're helping you bring sexy back by beefing up today. Tucker Barnes is checking out a piece of gym equipment you've probably never even seen before, it's called "The Landmine".

LECOM fitness center rounds into shape (Erie Times-News)
The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine won't cut corners on its new Medical Fitness and Wellness Center. The three-story, $31.5 million facility, which is scheduled to open in January, won't have corners at all.

WellTek Completes Acquisition of Scoop! Fitness(TM) (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
WellTek Incorporated , an exercise science-based health, fitness and wellness company, today announced that it has successfully completed its planned acquisition of a majority stake in Scoop!

New gym opens next week (Thunder Bay Post)
The final touches are being put on Thunder Bay's newest fitness Centre as McFit prepares to opens its doors in Thunder Bay next week. Treadmills, stair climbers and free weights are some equipment that fills the fitness facility in the McIntyre Centre.