HOME GYM REVIEWS

With the Total Gym 1800 Club home gym, you have everything you need to start your own personal fitness center. The gym offers more than 60 different exercises to help you tone and strengthen every major muscle group in your body. In particular, it can help you tone and condition the muscles you use every day to stand, walk, lift, and turn.

The product is designed so that you lift a percentage of your body weight against gravity, making the resistance smooth and fluid. As your strength and conditioning improves, you can increase resistance by increasing the incline. Features include ab-crunch boards, a Pilates bar, dip bars, press-up bars, a wing attachment, a leg attachment, and auto-lock height adjustments.

The Body-Solid EXM1500S was recently named the “#1 Best Buy” in the home gym category by the leading consumer reporting magazine. The gym is centered on a 160-pound weight stack, adjustable in ten-pound increments with the simple insertion of a pin, and boasts all of the features, stations, and exercises you need for a total toning, weight loss, and strength training program in the comfort of your own home.

Features Lat Pull-down/High Pulley Station: Perform lat pull-downs, triceps press-downs, cable crossovers, and many more high pulley exercises. Adjustable hold-down pads stabilize your body for lifts beyond your body weight, helping you increase strength and endurance of your back muscles. Ab Crunch/Mid Pulley Station: Develop stronger abs and toned triceps quickly at this strength training station.

Got a door? Then you got a gym. The Body by Jake Tower 200 slides onto any door within seconds, giving you 200 pounds of explosive resistance to help you get bigger and stronger within 30 days. The Tower 200 is equipped with a pair of multi-tension power cords, which help you work your arms, chest, shoulders, back, abs, and legs.

The cords support more than 200 exercises in all, including all the basics and a host of specialized, muscle-isolating routines. Users who are ready to get really crazy can try the “mother of all workouts”–Randy Couture’s MMA-inspired 11-minute body shredding routine, which includes such moves as the Warrior, the Demon, and the Freak.

The only professional home fitness system that features breakthrough Total Nitrocell Technology (TNT), the Bio Force 1. 7 home gym includes everything you need to build muscle, gain strength, and lose weight. The TNT system relies on two nitrogen-charged cylinders to create resistance rather than funky weight plates. These cylinders provide the machine with remarkably fluid resistance all the way through each exercise, helping you work your muscles through the entire range of motion.

Whether you want to build big, ripped muscles or long, lean, sexy muscles, the TNT weight resistance system is the way to go. The Bio Force 1. 7 also makes it easy to switch resistance levels, with an advanced slide-n-lock mechanism that adjusts from 10 pounds to 170 pounds in seconds. And changeovers from one exercise to another are lightning quick, with no dangerous weight plates to move or awkward bows to adjust.

Give your chest, upper body, and back a gym-quality workout with the X-Factor. The Weider X-Factor Door Gym is a total-body training system that’s engineered to attach to any standard door. The unique design and progressive resistance exceeding 210 pounds promote explosive movements to build strength and add muscle mass. Resistance is the key to any strength-training workout.

With the X-Factor Home Gym’s unique progressive bands, resistance increase as your body exerts more force. Each exercise promotes movements that strengthen your core and extremities via an intense, muscle-building, and fat-burning workout. The X-Factor kit comes complete with: Two handles, two ankle straps, four connection clips, resistance bands Exercise chart with over 50 body-sculpting exercises Three workout DVDs (X-Factor Total Body Workout, MMA-designed Explosion Workout, and X-Factor AB Shredding) Eight-week nutrition guide to help you achieve your desired results The X-Factor is so versatile, it can work your legs and lower body as well.

With over 50 body-shaping exercises and a space saving design, the Total Body Works 5000 home gym helps you firm, tighten, and define your entire body from home. The versatile system helps you define and shape your arms, shoulders, back, abs, hips, thighs, and calves–all while you increase your overall strength and flexibility.

The Total Body Works 5000 features durable resistance bands that turn your own body weight into natural resistance for a wide variety of exercises. For greater challenge you can use the resistance bands to increase the weight resistance beyond your own body weight, providing up to 50 pounds of additional resistance–without bulky dumbbells or weight plates.

Want to tone your entire body without buying a space-hogging fitness machine? Turn to the Total Gym XLS, a top-of-the-line device that helps you strengthen and sculpt every major muscle group in your body using a single glide board and a few handy attachments. The Total Gym XLS works by making you lift a percentage of your body weight against gravity, creating a smooth and fluid resistance.

As your strength and conditioning improve, you increase the total resistance by boosting the incline, thus increasing the body weight lifted in the exercise. The Total Gym XLS not only works your upper body, but also your lower body, abdominals, and even your cardiovascular system. And by reducing body fat and increasing the proportion of lean muscle mass in your body, the strength training effectively turns up the thermostat so that your body burns calories constantly.

Want to tone your entire body without buying a complete home gym? Check out the Total Gym 1100, which helps you strengthen and sculpt every major muscle group in your body. Offering more than 60 different exercises, the Total Gym 1100 works by making you lift a percentage of your body weight against gravity, making the resistance smooth and fluid.

As your strength and conditioning improves, you increase the total resistance by boosting the incline, thus increasing the body weight lifted in the exercise. The Total Gym 1100 not only works your upper body, but also your lower body, abdominals, and even your cardiovascular system. The compact, efficient trainer can replace an entire gym of equipment, yet folds away for easy storage in a closet.

The Bowflex PR3000 home gym is a great way to strengthen your muscles with over 50 strength exercises and a built-in rowing station. With up to 210 pounds of Power Rod resistance (can be upgraded to 310 pounds), this versatile machine helps work the abs, arms, chest, back, shoulders, and lower body. It includes a no-change cable pulley system, vertical bench press, triple-function hand grips for lat pull-down, and four-inch upholstered roller cushions for leg extension and leg curl exercises.

The PR3000 utilizes Bowflex’s patented Power Rods, which provide resistance, or weight, that feels as good as or better than free weights–but without the inertia or risk of joint pain usually associated with free weights. You can hook one, two, three, four or all of your Power Rod units to the cable pulley system and go from as little as 5 pounds all the way up to 210 pounds of resistance.

The Bowflex Blaze Home Gym with Power Rod Technology is a serious piece of fitness equipment. If you’re searching for a way to look and feel better, the Blaze will give you fast results, with just 20 minutes a day, three times a week. The Blaze offers over 60 gym-quality exercises that work all your muscle groups, and with 210 pounds of Power Rod resistance (upgradable to 310 or 410 pounds) this device offers plenty of room for strength-training growth.

The Blaze allows for more than 60 exercises and offers 210 pounds of Power Rod resistance. Feature Details: Number of Exercises: 60 Power Rod Technology Resistance: 210 pounds (upgradable to 310 or 410 pounds) Lat tower with angled lat bar helps build back and shoulder muscles quickly Lower pulley/squat station enables you to do squats and build your glutes, hamstrings, and quads Leg Extension/leg curl attachment helps develop strong, muscular legs Sliding seat rail allows you to perform aerobic rowing and leg presses Triple function hand-grip/ankle cuffs Multiple cable/pulley positions enable custom workouts Dimensions: 90 inches long by 38 inches wide by 83 inches tall Folded Footprint: 52 inches long by 38 inches wide Workout Area: 8 feet, 4 inches by 6 feet, 6 inches Multiple Machines in One Device The Blaze home gym is similar to having a whole resistance training gym tucked right into your den.