Buying guidelines for home fitness equipment
Identify your fitness requirements ...
The following should be guidelines for choosing gym equipment.

1. Identify your fitness requirements
The equipment should suit the interests and fitness level, of as many members of the family as possible. Your chosen activities should be enjoyable and yet challenging enough that your able to progress to higher levels. If you find the equipment boring, you won't use it, remember to look at the section on staying motivated within this site. You should be able to increase the resistance, incline or duration of a given piece of equipment. For best results both aerobic and strength training equipment should be purchased in order to achieve all round fitness. The best advice for all-round fitness is to purchase a machine which will work your heart and lungs, and at the same time, work your muscles.Running machines, exercise bikes and skiing type machines are all good for improving your aerobic fitness.

If your goal is an aerobic workout, then the equipment's resistance should be low enough to maintain for at least 20 minutes of smooth continuous motion. This type of exercise is what is needed to improve your aerobic fitness and burn calories for weight management. If your goal is muscle strengthening, then considerably more resistance is required. Multi-weight style pieces of gym equipment offer the beginner a good selection of exercises, and lower risk of injury, however they can be space consuming.


1. Identify your fitness requirements

2. The big factor, price

3. Where will you put the equipment?

4. Testing the product