Four home gym stations for small spaces
If you want to set up a home gym but lack a dedicated space, here are a few streamlined weight-training machines that offer a hardcore workout but in compact designs.
Inspire BL1 Body Lift - The single-station home gym relies on silent cable pulleys rather than weights to let you lift a percentage of your own body weight. Allows for a lot of workouts, including presses, pulls, seated leg extensions, lat pulls, standing bicep curls and more. Price: $1,395.
www.inspirefitness.net
Inspire PT1 Power Tower - This home gym offers a ton of exercises in a space-saving design, including simple vertical knee raise (VKR) workouts, such as dips, pull-ups, and leg raises. Plus the sliding cable-pulley handles offer a number of head-to-toe exercises using a 160-pound (about 73 kilos) weight stack. Price: $1,595.
www.inspirefitness.net
Powerline BSG10X Home Gym - A great buy for the money, this home gym comes almost completely pre-assembled, features a compact frame and a 160-pound weight stack, and allows up to 40 exercises. Price: $995.
www.bodysolid.com
Precor S3.15 - This basic setup has everything you need for standard upper body and leg exercises and features a 150-pound (about 68 kilos) weight stack. Price: $1,299.
www.precor.com
Of course, even more streamlined is a pair of kettlebells. GoFit offers a 10-pound (4.5 kilos) kettlebell with a beginner DVD ($35). Or try rubber resistance bands and tubes, which can target problem areas such as hips and inner thighs. Check out Braided Xertubes ($30).
www.gofit.net
www.spri.com
Or train with TRX -- one of the hottest fitness trends of the moment, this suspension trainer attaches to a door and allows for more than 300 exercises ($200, includes guide and DVD).
www.trxtraining.com
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