A great home multi gym

Advantages: Great value for money, plenty of weights
Disadvantages: Takes a while to build, inability to add additional weights

...form. Luckily, this was a gym where other members would jump in and assist by showing you how to do it properly and safely to minimise the risk of injury. With proper form you easily find that the weight decreases by up to 50%. Due to moving away from the area, work commitments and general change in lifestyle I had to give up my membership. Whilst walking around JJB a few months back I stumbled across a home multi-gym. Whilst I had seen these before (a few years ago) I never really knew how they should be used so always dismissed them. Knowing the exercises to do and the machines I used at the local gym to perform those exercises the home multi-gym suddenly made a lot more sense. This machine combined several machines in one from the chest press to the leg curl to the lat pull down. I could now see how the home gym worked and what...

yackers1 03.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Weider Pro 5500 Home Multi Gym

Tomy Multi-Gym Walker - Great Multifunctional Toy

Advantages: Sturdy, Bright, Multifunctional
Disadvantages: None

...Okay so my 1st Ciao product review ? so go easy on me! When my son was a couple of months old I started looking round for a baby-gym. I wanted something that had a little more than the seemingly standard pastel soft toys on and this seemed to fit the bill. Quite a few places stocked it for £17.99 but then I saw it on offer for £12.99 in Woolworths and couldn?t resist. However, I haven?t seen it for a while and am unsure if it has been discontinued in favour of the ?next-stage? multi-product. The product is advertised as a 6-1 toy, however the main uses are as a baby-gym and a walker ? the other uses are just a bit of a gimmick really. On opening the box the baby-gym was self-assembly, but this doesn?t require any special tools and is very straightforward ? taking only a few minutes. As a baby-gym it is a very good toy ? it...

priorite 07.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of Tomy Multi-Gym Walker

Home gym, Sex machine, Torture device, its your choice!!!!!!

Advantages: Cheap, effective space saving solution for a home gym
Disadvantages: You may get a few raised eyebrows if they don't know what it is!!!!

...! PRICE And so to the price. I immediately put my prediction in of around £400. The machine was sturdy, well built and comfortable?ithad an expensive feel about it. Factor in the fact that it actually worked too, I was confident in my prediction. I was however wrong. £250 (thanedirect.co.uk) Excellent price £90 second hand on Ebay!!!!!!! Unreal I was staggered by this. In particular the eBay offer (all be it, it was pick-up only!). For this money, I could not think of any other machine that would give you an all over workout at such a good price. Not only is the machine Made well and effective, its cheap too! CONCLUSION If you enjoy exercising and you are looking for a good piece of home gym equipment, this is definitely worth a consideration. Its small and relatively inexpensive compaired to its competition (Multigyms) but...

Logan33 13.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Pilates Power Gym

HotGym - An excellent concept, well designed

Advantages: Portability, ease of use, functionality
Disadvantages: Currently can't order online - phone or postal orders only

...I recently purchased a HotGym, living in a flat I have very limited space for any exercise equipment. The HotGym collapses down brilliantly for hiding under the bed or behind the sofa when not in use. - The Product The website (http://www.hotgym.co.uk/) shows just how compact this gym goes for storage and the functionality when in use. It's very easy / relatively quick to put together and take apart, the website states 5 mins, at the moment it takes me around 6 mins so not too far out, and you could of course leave it up space permitting. Once assembled the gym feels extremely stable and offers a range of exercises from heaves (pull-ups / chin-ups), dips, leg raises and even elevated press ups. For me this is ideal - I much prefer doing exercises that use your own body weight for resistance, for extra resistance ankle weights...

MountainGoat 15.03.2007 (20.03.2007) · Read review
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Review of HotGym Home Or Travel Gym

Little Tikes Junior Activity Gym

Advantages: sturdy, strong, robust, attractive, compact
Disadvantages: difficult to assemble, not as much fun as it could be

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Little Tikes Junior Activity Gym ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Most crèches or children?s play areas seem to have one of these activity gyms and they looked bright and colourful so we decided to get one for my brothers first birthday. The activity gym as shown in the picture is made up of four side panels, each with holes in for the child to climb through. There is a small bright pink slide and a blue floor, which the children can go under or climb on to go down the slide. As we unpacked the activity gym it looked relatively simple to assemble, as it was really just a case of slotting the panels together but don?t be fooled! It was not at all easy to assemble although the only consolation is that if it was that difficult to put together its going to be near impossible for it to fall apart! The brightly...

ilusvm 04.03.2005 (18.04.2009) · Read review
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Review of Little Tikes Junior Activity Gym

Gym'll fix it.

Advantages: See text.
Disadvantages: See text.

...I understand that I have written a very similar review to this one that is actually on working out, however I would just like to now write a review on choosing a gym - as you can, in fact work out anywhere (well, within reason as I doubt the manager at Tesco would be best pleased somehow!). I have just changed gyms, I used to go to one that was on the outskirts of Plymouth (it was on the same site as the hospital that I worked in). This one I paid £27 a month for all in, so this was unlimited use of the actual gym in itself; the sauna or steam room (it was a case of either/ or for a week and then change but I never used them), and the classes that were on offer. You also got your own programme included should you wish, which I did as I had never been to a gym before. Just to mention, the £27 a month was a special rate for NHS staff...

dynamicnurse 16.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on Choosing a Gym

Total Gym Total Workout

Advantages: Very well built, sturdy, uses own body weight
Disadvantages: Quite heavy, big and bulky

...simple if you know what you are doing. It is one of those things, that once you have set it up once, you will always know how to do it. ********************ABOUT THE GYM******************** This home gym, allows you to do a multiple amount of exercises. This means you can work on lots of areas. the areas you can work on are: *Leg work, thigh work, calf work *Arm work, triceps biceps *Bottom work, hip work *Shoulder work *Upper and lower back work *Chest work *Abdominal work The manuals that you get with it, are very useful. They use plain, understandable english. The set up instructions are very easy to follow. I managed it first time. You also get an exercise booklet. This provides *Program routines, for beginners, intermediates and advance workouts. *Basic fitness instructions *Circuit training...

purebitch 23.01.2002 (28.03.2002) · Read review
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Review of Total Gym 1000

A Wheelie bad idea!!!!!! Golds Gym Exercise wheel

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: You could quite easily end up in traction!!!!! Awful, disasterous etc etc

...disastrous piece of manufacturing set you back? Goldsgymdirect.co.uk £8.99 Indirect.com £6.99 Home-gym-equipment.co.uk £5.95 Ebay £6.99 IN CONCLUSION This piece of equipment is extremely cheap in cost but expensive in potential damage! Used correctly (which is difficult) its effects are minimal, used incorrectly (which is easy!) its going to destroy your back. I would never recommend this piece of equipment to anybody and would happily give it zero stars if I could!!!!! Hope this helps, Kind Regards, Logan...

Logan33 11.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Golds Gym Exercise Wheel

A complete gym in your home

Advantages: Useful for the whole family
Disadvantages: restricted maximum user weight

...YORK Body Gym 2003 Due to the nature of my work I used to have a bit of spare time during the day, so I filled it in by going to the local gym. This had 2 purposes , 1, it got me from under my wifes feet, and 2, it helped keep me fit . But due to unforeseen family problems I can not get to the gym as much any more , so I had to find an alternative method of keeping fit at home. I have looked at all the different electronic gadgets ( personally none of these really work), Then I turned my attention to free weights and Multi gyms, which believe me they are good and obviously work, But I do not live in a mansion , plus having a 6 year old son and a disabled 10 year old son who are both very nosey means leaving heavy weights and machines laying around pretty dangerous . Then one day my eldest daughter was watching QVC ( as...

NIGSY 18.07.2003 · Read review
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Review of York bodygym 2003

JML Iron Gym a fantastic product

Advantages: Easy to use, durable, visible results in a short time and Safe
Disadvantages: Not easy to store away

...Firstly can i just say WOW! the iron gym is one of the best things i have bought this year! JML Iron Gym comes with easy to assemble instructions and takes literally 5mins to assemble. Iron gym fits onto almost every door frame in the house and with its foam handles and contact points it leaves no marks, no damage and wont put stress on the door frame! I have been using iron gym for about 3 months now and the results have been great i have put on 1 1/2 stone in muscle weight. The iron gym comes in an easy to carry box and as well as an ultra clear instruction manual that tells you how to use it, what types of exercises to do with it, how often to use it and it even has an information booklet about nutrition and what to eat to get the best results from using it. The iron gym has one small flaw and that is that you cannot easily...

scottuk06 13.08.2009 · Read review
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