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How to Maintain Your Home Gym Equipment (Properly!)

When most people hear the word “maintenance”, they instantly recoil in horror at the thought of having to hoist tools around and take greasy dirty components apart, clean them, then figure out how to put things back together again. In reality, there’s very little maintenance required to keep most modern home gym equipment in good working order. Home gym maintenance …

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Best Home Gyms

What are the Best Home Gyms to Buy in 2016?

Health is precious and something that’s constantly fleeting due to the aging process, poor diet and lack of exercise. Working out for at least 30 minutes at a moderate intensity level every day can set the clock back by years and keep you looking and feeling younger for longer. Regular daily exercise helps to balance stress levels, keep our bodyweight …

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Marcy Diamond MD2109 100-Pound Stack Gym

Marcy Diamond MD2109 Review

The Marcy Diamond MD2109 is an entry-level home gym, designed for people who want a resistance workout, but who aren’t interested in “bulking up” like a bodybuilder. The 100-pound stack is much less than the Marcy 150 which only costs about $80 more, so you’ll have to keep that in mind while you read this review. [amzn_product_post template=’singleShort’] Specifications: Footprint: …

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Marcy 150 Pound Home Gym

Marcy 150 Pound Home Gym Review

The Marcy 150 Pound Home Gym is perfect for beginner and even intermediate users. This is a cheap, but decent quality full-body workout station that offers a good range of exercises for toning workouts. Since you don’t have to change cables between exercises, you can also do a few basic circuit workouts to improve cardiovascular conditioning. It’s important to note …

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Total Gym 1900 Home Gym

Total Gym 1900 Home Gym Review

Exercise machines that use your bodyweight to create resistance have been all the rage since the very first Total Gym came out. Chuck Norris and Christie Brinkley have, of course helped to elevate the status of this line of “inclined plane bodyweight training devices” – but being the original also gives the people at Total Gym decades more knowledge to …

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Body-Solid G6B Home Gym

Body-Solid G6B Home Gym Review

The G6B is yet another great piece of all-in-one functional workout equipment from Body-Solid. It’s a mid-range single-stack designed home gym, falling between the much smaller G1S budget-home-gym and the much larger (and expensive) commercial-gym-rated G10B double stack model. Specifications: Footprint: 85″ L x 50″ W x 83.5″ H 210 pound “selectorized” weight stack with option to upgrade to 260 …

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