Personalized Home Exercise Equipment Guide

What is the BEST Home Exercise Equipment for YOUR Fitness Goals?

Over the years my wife and I have purchased enough home exercise equipment to create our own mini fitness center if we only had enough room. I have seen it all from the cheapest "ab rockers" to the top of the line Nordictrac and some of everything in between.

Unfortunately (for me and my wallet) most of this fitness gear has eventually found itself pushed aside for one reason or another. Maybe it didn't deliver what it promised or was of inferior quality and felt kind of rickety or it might have simply taken up too much room in the house. For whatever reason we have invested a lot of time and money over the years on a lot of equipment that just didn't meet our needs.

This guide will help you to make the RIGHT choice in home fitness equipment the FIRST time. Kinda like being able to learn from our mistakes. (Like the time we bought a piece of equipment that had 500 pounds of weights, my wife and I probably couldn't lift 500 pounds if we tried to do it TOGETHER!)

We have discovered that there are a few basic "musts" that you need to consider when buying home exercise equipment.

First of all you must consider whether a home based fitness routine is a good fit for you. Sure you'll save time, you'll never have to wait for a piece of equipment to be free and in the long run you'll save money on the gym dues (which will pay for your new home gym equipment), but you'll also be going it alone unless you invite a friend or neighbor to join you and for some people it requires a different kind of discipline to stay motivated without a partner

Second you must consider your goals. Are you looking to add muscle or seeking to tone up? Why spend a lot of money on equipment when a set of resistance bands, a mat and the right DVD is all you may need? Do you want to target a problem area or are you looking for a total body workout? There are machines that focus on specific areas and some that give you a great all over workout.

Third you must consider how much space you have to dedicate to your equipment. The guide will give you the dimensions of the equipment where that may be an issue.

The last "must" is the warranty. A piece of home exercise equipment when used regularly gets a lot of workout itself. Moving parts, weights, repetitive motions, this can all add up to broken equipment and having a good solid warranty is well worth the added cost if it's the deciding factor between two otherwise similar machines.