A great home multi gym

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

...use it would be. I had been looking at getting back to a gym but never got around to it. The decision was made to buy a multi-gym. ****Choosing the correct multi-gym*** There are many home multi-gyms in the market and I was at a total loss what to get. There are a few questions that need to be answered such as What are my goals? How much weight is required to achieve this? (determines the size of the weight stack) What exercises do I need to do to achieve my goals? How much am I willing to spend? How much room have I got available. Once the type of gym has been narrowed down it is then important to look at manufacturers, such as York, Weider, Marcy, Powerline, V-Fit to name but a few. I found this process an arduous task and decided to ask someone who knows. I discussed my requirements with a chap at Fitness Superstore who...

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

Marcy Burialground

Advantages: When in the right mood, a few of the tracks could be mildly entertaining.
Disadvantages: Depressing and monotonous.

...Some of you may remember the MTV show 'Up For It' with Eddy Temple-Morris and Zane Lowe. As well as call-in sections and the usual comedy stunts, they showed live performances by bands that were supposedly about to break into the commercial scene. As far as I can remember, not many bands actually made it. Marcy Playground, along with Drugstore and Headswim, stayed firmly on the brink of mainstream. ‘Sex and Candy’ their first and only single released from this eponymous album is the definite standout track. Although quite beautiful compared to the other tracks, it is not really anything special. The song has a much softer feel to it than say ‘Saint Joe on the School Bus’ which, according to the sleeve, ‘is about being picked on’. However, I think it speaks for itself and wonder why that is...

pinknails 02.04.2001 · Read review
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Review of Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground

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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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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Review of JML Iron 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

Rainforest Playmat/Gym - brilliant buy

Advantages: Lots of toy for the baby to play with & nice and colourful
Disadvantages: none

...Me and my partner had been looking at playmats for a while & could not decide which one to go for, they all vary so much in price & some have a lot more on than others, we desided we wanted a nice colourfull one with as much on as we could get. After a bit of searching we found this on on the Argos website & loved it as soon as we saw it, think the giraffe on one side sold it for us. This playmat is a very good size, it has a large multi coloured mat (which can be used on its own), it has pictures of monkeys, frogs, birds etc on it and also has a squshy leaf in one corner which is filled with noisy paper & various other bits that stick up for the baby to play with. The arch that you attatch to each corner crosses over in the middle above the baby! One arch is green jungle design & the other is a rainbow which also has the giraffe...

soutram 23.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Fisher-Price Rainforest Melodies & Lights Deluxe Gym

What a great gym!!

Advantages: Fun, entertaining, lasts years
Disadvantages: Uses lots of batteries

...Little Tykes have really gone to town with this kiddies gym! It has 5 different settings designed so that it will grow with the baby which is much better than all the other gyms I've seen in the shops which are just aimed at babies and don' progress yet are the same price as this one. The five settings are: A gym for tiny babies to kick at A gym for babies to play with once they're sitting up A play table suitable for babies who are able to stand up and walk around it A play table with stool for a toddler to sit on A writing table with stool for older toddlers. It sounds like it might be complicated to swap from one setting to another but it's not at all! It's really simple all you have to do is change the green stool which converts to a kick plate for the babies by just unscrewing it which is really simple to do as you...

mrbing10 15.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Little Tikes 5-in-1 Adjustable Gym

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

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

...it. Gold?s gym however are much better at pitching this product. Here?s what they have to say about it: ?Another great alternative to stressful crunches and strenuous sit-ups. Our smooth-gliding Exercise Wheel, built from sturdy plastic, will tighten and tone arms, abs, hips, buttocks and thighs?. Features: Contoured handgrips to provide a secure, comfortable grip. Just push slowly and hold your position, before returning to the start position. The forwards and backwards movement works your abs in both directions. Stressful crunches and strenuous sit-ups? I hope they don?t use the same line when describing their abdominal roller which is designed to emulate just that!!! I?m also quite impressed by their claims that it will tone up your arms, abs, hips buttocks and thighs. Quite impressive, in fact I?m thinking about...

Logan33 11.03.2009 · Read review
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Little tykes junior activity gym

Advantages: Hours of fun for the kids
Disadvantages: Have to take it apart to fully clean it

...My three children have their own little adventure playground in the back garden swings,slides and trampolines. When it was cold or rainy they had nothing to play on indoors so i bought them the activity gym they were absolutly chuffed to bits with it they could play with this toy indoors or out,so in the winter they had it indoors and in the summer the little ones played on it out doors as a climbing frame. It is aproximatly a metre high and about the same wide It looks quite pretty with its multy coloured sides,base and slide. The base comes in to pieces which is coloured blue there are four sides which easily click into place the colours of the sides are green orange and yellow.The slide just slots into place and can be removed so it can be used just as a climbing frame .The colour of the slide is pink. Children have hours...

yabbis21 17.03.2006 · Read review
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