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Best Home Gyms for Weight Lifting and Strength Training
Today more and more people are foregoing a gym membership and choosing to weightlift and strength train in the comfort and privacy of their own homes. While a set of dumbbells is probably the most cost effective way to do so - more and more people with the space and the budget are opting for a home gym machine. Universal type home gyms or circuit trainers are not cheap, however the prices have come down over the years. There are some very good home gyms for weightlifting that are under 1000.00. Most major manufactures offer some kind of financing, so for the cost of a monthly gym membership - if you prefer to train at home, you can have a quality home gym.
Just as the approach to all things weightlifting when choosing a home gym, it is best to identify your goals before you start to shop around. What are your looking to weightlift for? Do you want to bulk up, or are you going more for tone and definition? Are you recuperating form an injury and can no longer work with free weights but want to keep a program as close to your original weightlift routine as possible? The answers to such questions will help narrow your focus to the type of machines your are looking for. There are basically two categories of home gym for weightlifting. One is the multi-exercise workout stations weight stack machines - basically a scaled down home version of what you will find in the gym - and resistance trainers that do not use weights at all - like a Bowflex. While the second is not technically "weightlifting" since no weights are involved, it still uses the same ideas of progressive resistance and strength training; and can achieve in many cases the same kind of results as working out with free weights or weight machines. Budget and space is of course another consideration either one of which can be the ultimate limiting factor on what type of machine you can purchase. For space issues the resistance trainers are probably the way to go - many strength training exercises can be done on a Bowflex, they take up very little space, and there are several versions designed to fit most budgets, and financing is available.
As far as a workstation goes, a very good one for less than 1000.00 that does not require that much space is the Body Solid EXM-1500S Home Gym. The Body Solid allows for all of the major weightlift routines and workout stations including a low row. Because they place the low row off to the side, rather then in front of the press bench where it is on most machines, the Body Solid takes up a little less room. It has a 160 lb weight stack, is scratch and dent resistant, and includes a Lat Pull down bar, Shortbar, Ankle and Ab Crunch straps. It comes with a lifetime warranty and can be purchased at a good price point. If you are a real heavy power lifter you may want more then the 160-pound stack, but for the beginner and most weightlifters it is it is a great machine.
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