How To Choose Fitness Equipment
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Home fitness equipment should be choose based on exercising goal, body condition, safety, space, durability and price. The request of customers, space, designing, workmanship and durability should be considered when you choose fitness equipment for gym.
Brief Introduction
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Health is the most important thing in the life of a people. Exercising is one of the ways to keep you healthy and shaped.
The exercising in gym is good, but the time wasted on the way is beyond your imagination. It is nice to have some fitness equipment in home or office, which is very helpful to shape our body and keep you in good healthy condition.
After you have the decision of exercising, it is time to choose some fitness equipment. It is not easy to choose the perfect fitness equipment while there are so many types, brands and device in the market.
Where to start ? Hope the following tips and ideas are helpful when you choose fitness machine or device.
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How To Choose Fitness Equipment For Home
Exercising Goal
It is necessary to set out a goal for your exercising, which is the base for choosing or narrowing down your fitness equipment.
Arm strength equipment is a good choice when you want to exercise arm muscles.
Fitness ridding machine should be choose when you plan to shape your waist and burn more calories.
Abdomen wheel is very helpful to have six-pack abs.
Dumbbells, barbells, kettle-bells as well as the required benches and racks should be used when you plan to gain muscle.
Skipping ropes should never be missed if you are looking to improve your endurance.
Treadmills is a good choice if you are interested in Cardio.
Rowing machines and battle ropes are good equipment used to burn fat.
If you prefer to have device with more than one function, then the multi-functional fitness equipment is a good product.
All above equipments are helpful to burn fatter, build stronger muscles and increase your strength. Just keep in mind, you should choose fitness equipment based on your targets and the corresponding exercising type.
Body Condition
The body condition of each person is different. This should be considered when choose appropriate fitness equipment, which is helpful to prevent you from any injury in exercising.
You are suggested to consult doctor if you got injuries in the past.
After knowing your body condition, you can choose the fitness machine accordingly. For example, Elliptical trainers is the best choice if you have too much pressure on knees while running.
Safe
Safety should be considered when you choose fitness equipment.
The safety of fitness equipment includes items such as the firmness of the handle and seat, equipment stability and the ability of emergency stop.
Being the basic components of fitness equipment, handles and seats plays an important role of strength supporting. Such as the spinning bikes and some multi-functional equipment. There is possibility of being deformed or even broken if the handles bars or seats is not strong enough. This leads to possible injury to the user.
Therefore, you are suggested to check the handle bars and seat to ensure there is no potential danger.
For some electric fitness equipment, for example the treadmill, we should pay special attention to the function of emergency stopping. This function ensures that in the event of an emergency, the user can push a button to make an emergency stop to protect the exerciser. It should stop running immediately after pressing the stop button, and restarts running when the reset button is pressed.
However, some equipments performs not well on this vital function. For example, some electric fitness equipment automatically restarts only after a short stop, which brings potential dangers to the exercisers.
Formaldehyde content should also be considered. For example, you are suggested to choose a yoga mat that does not have a pungent smell.
Space
Fitness machines are available in big size or just occupy small space. You should choose the equipment according to the space you have, in office or personal gym.
Big size fitness equipment is suggested if you have a lot of space for exercising, such as electric treadmills or multi-functional fitness equipment.
Most people have limited space for exercising. Small sized fitness equipment are suggested; and, perhaps you don't believe, but they are enough to keep you in good shape and health. The ordinary small-sized equipment covers skipping rope,
weights bench, dumbbells, barbells, kettle-bells, squat rack, yoga mat, as well as stationary bike.
Folding equipment is suggested if you have to choose big sized equipment.
Step By Step
Body building is a long way based on regular exercising.
Being a fitness novice, you are not suggested to buy full set of fitness equipment, especially when you're not confident about how long you can keep exercising.
It is not a bad idea to choose simple equipment as the beginning of the long journey, such as weights bench and dumbbells.
After several months of regular exercising, and you are not tired of it, then it is the time to add some new equipment.
As i know, 80% of people throw dumbbells in the corner after several days of practice, because the muscle soreness coming with exercising is not acceptable for them.
Durable
Durability should be considered when you choose fitness equipment, because this is not the commodities you can buy every day.
I am not meaning you need to buy famous brand at a very high price, expensive does not means good, but you need to make sure the equipment is strong enough for a long time using. Most fitness equipments are not complicated. Some new brands at low price are also good to choose after you make sure their durability.
You are suggested to choose steel or iron instead of rubber when you choose equipments for weightlifting.
Comfort
It is vital to have easy, convenient, comfortable or even cool fitness equipment. You need to use the fitness equipment everyday in the long way of body building. Make sure you are using the equipment comfortably. You can not imagine how you can use them daily when you have a set of awkward equipment.
For sure, everybody have their unique preference. But the most important factor is that you like it. If you hate them, you will lose interests and will not use it regularly.
Price
Price is another factor to be considered when you choose fitness equipment.
Fitness equipment is available from low price to very high cost. You should have a budget before buying fitness equipment. And you are suggested to stick to the budget throughout the choosing process.
Don't splurge if you have enough budgets. Believe me, higher price does not means better quality. All you need is good quality.
You are suggested to find balance between function and price if you have a moderate budget.
If you are on a tight budget, then lets find some fitness equipment at low price; something is cheap doesn't mean it's not good, especially some new brands, or brands from another country.
Are you looking for a more cheaper option ? don't worry, lets start the exercising from a bench, dumbbells and Yoga mat.
As you can see, you can exercise based on any budget. It is not a good idea to be over budget, because it may leads to regrets at the most time.
Used
There are many used fitness equipment at a very low price in the market.
It is a good idea to have some used simple equipment, especially the weights bench, dumbbells, barbells, kettle-bells, etc. They offers the same function with the new one, but the price is amazing.
Please make a carefully inspect on the machine if you plan to buy a set of used multi-function fitness equipment.
How To Choose Fitness Equipment For Gym
You should be knowledgeable of how to choose fitness equipment before you open a new gym, otherwise you need to do some research to collect abundant information or experience.
Choosing right fitness equipment is helpful in saving your money and please your customer in using the equipment.
Request of Customers
The first factor need to be considered is the request of customer. For example, which kind of machine they prefer, what kind of exercising they like.
You can get the information from the past customers, or you just do a market research in potential customers.
After getting the customers' request, you can choose equipment according to this data. For example, you can choose more treadmills if most customers are interested in cardio; More device of weight-lifting should be choose if most customers prefer to gain muscle.
Keep in mind, always choosing the fitness equipment loved by customer, which lead to a successful gym.
Space
As you know, only around 60% space of your gym can be used for exercising, because you need space for bathing, locker area, office, personal training, reception area, etc.
Among the exercising area, you can leave 20% for free-weight exercising, 30% for multi-function fitness equipment, 30% for cardio equipment and 20% for group exercising.
It is a good idea to use a designing software or APP to make a detailed planing on the layout of your new gym.
After knowing the space of each exercising, you will know which kind of equipments and how many machine should be choose.
Designing
The exerciser will feel boring and helpless when the fitness equipment in gym was poorly designed.
While well designed equipment with scientific exercise principles makes coaches and members excited and full of energy. They will bring more friends to your gym. Ha, this is a good trend you like to see.
And the well designed fitness equipment leads to low failure rate, which save money for your gym.
Workmanship
The details of workmanship shows the grade of the equipment, or even the grade the whole gym.
You may find the workmanship details on the skill of bending, welding, assembly process, surface treatment as well as the quality of the wearing parts. All these details are closely related with the quality and service of your gym. At the same time it also affect the quality of exercising as well as the experience in gym.
So you also should pay attention to the workmanship details when choose fitness equipment.
For example, the automatic welding is neat, while most manual welding is rough and needs to be polished for aesthetics, which may leads to down-graded safety and durability.
Durability
Fitness equipment of gym needs a great investment, so the durability of the fitness device should be considered.
After you narrowed down the brand or type of the fitness equipment, you are suggested to pay a visit to a club or gym to discover the durability of the same product.
You also can find some reviews on Internet about the durability of the product you favor.
How Traders To Choose Fitness Equipment
Market Research
A market research should be made if you plan to enter the fitness equipment industry in near future.
The research should covers club, gym and exerciser. The main research data covers what kind of equipment are favored.
You can choose fitness equipment based on the market research.
User Feedback
After providing fitness equipment, you can contact customers to get feedback from them. Listen to them about the pros and cons of the fitness machine.
Then you can forward these feedback to your fitness equipment supplier. They will do something before you make next buying.