A weights bench that doesn't wobble!!!!! Atlast!!!!!!

Advantages: stable and versatile....did I mention stable (Its excellent)
Disadvantages: A bit costly, the weights you will need are expensive.

...This is the best bench out there for the money, offering versality of exercise but being one of the sturdiest benches I have used. FUNCTIONALITY Adjusts from decline, flat, incline, and full upright position Now this for me is a really improtant aspect of the bench as the ability for the bench in particular to decline is an important aspect of weight training that is not offered by other benches. Most benches will operate from flat, through to fully upright. This covers most exercises from bench pressing to arm (bicep curls etc) and shoulder work (shoulders press). However with the introduction of the decline, it provides the opportunity to do decline presses and/or decline butterfly's (bench pressing on the decline) This is particularly useful to be able to develope the muscles in the lower pectorial's (in the chest...

Logan33 22.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of York Olympic Combo Bench

Decent beginners weights bench

Advantages: easy to assemble
Disadvantages: the design could be improved

...During my gap year from sixth form to university I got a job as a lifeguard at the local sports centre and as a consequence spent a lot of time in the gym. I puchased a york 6605 weights bench so I could workout at home instead of travelling to and from the gym on my days off. It was reasonably straightforward to assemble and at first I was delighted with it. However, after using it a few times I began to notice the design faults. Firstly, when doing leg curls, especially quadricep raises it was hurting my shins, I don't think it was designed with tall people in mind (im 6ft 1'). Because of this I had to place something on the seat to elevate my vertical position. The second problem was the bench press. This was fine when performing flat or decline bench presses, but when performing incline ones it is very hard to lift the weights off...

beanie8844 07.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of York 6605 Bench

From bench to table and back again

Advantages: convertible
Disadvantages: none

...Every year at half term we take the wooden garden furniture in , so last week into the conservatory went the garden bench. It will stay here until we get the summer here. June time we take our picnic bench /table out of hibernation from the conservatory. We position it on the patio and celebrate the summer by sitting on it while consuming a cup of tea. We have a picnic table that converts to a garden bench, or the other way round. It is a wooden one just like the picture. We have owned this bench for about 15 years now. The bench / table that we have is still in good order. The wood may be a looking a little older. I expect it will eventually decay. I think it is made of pine wood. This picnic table looks like ones you get in pub gardens although the ones in pubs do not fold up into a bench. The simple mechanism...

mumsymary 08.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Garden Bench Company Convertible Garden Bench

Lose weight

Advantages: Makes you fit, lose weight
Disadvantages: Cant do many multiplayer games on it apart from jogging.

...WHY I LOVE THIS GAME I recently bought this after buying the wii console from a catalogue. Its great to use and simple to use. There is no cables to trip over as its wireless and connects to the wii console using infrared. It has lots of fun activities for the whole family and allows you to workout in freedom of your own living room instead of having to pay out for expensive gym membership. I Bought this too lose weight and i lost a lot of fat around my stomache and thighs. It has a variety of exercises to do which include the areobic side of it which is step, boxing, jogging and hula hooping. You unlock harder levels of the game the more you play it and get longer time to do the exercise. WHATS INCLUDED ON THE GAME There is also yoga exercises to it and muscle workouts on this game which help your posture and strength...

keepsmiling86 15.03.2009 (22.03.2009) · Read review
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Review of Wii Fit (Wii)

Work it baby Work it on my bench.

Advantages: Comfortable strong and rigid
Disadvantages: Price

...When it comes to weight training and handling free weights, it is always best to do it supervised if you are a novice. It is also best to get some tuition. However, one thing you will soon learn is that there are only so many exercises you can do standing up or sitting down. Soon you will need to perhorm chest presses or shoulder raises in a lying or sitting position. You may even want to start exercising your legs. So what you need is a bench. What better bench that one that has been around for years, is proven,adjustable, sturdy and downright popular. So this is the main reasoning behind my York Weights bench purchase. York make a variety of weights benches from the basic rigid one piece bench, right up to the full adjustable, multi functional benches with weights supplied. My bench is somewhere in the middle and costs £120...

andycharger 01.08.2002 · Read review
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Review of York 9300 Enforcer Bench

Not just dust on the menu at Weight Watchers

Advantages: A weight loss programme that is tried and tested
Disadvantages: Can be expensive

... WEIGHTWATCHERS An update to my original review Hello my name is Sue and I'm a Weight Watcher!!!!!! I first made a hesitant step into a Weight Watcher meeting about 35 years ago. In those days the plan was completely different you had to eat certain foods at certain times. I stuck to the plan rigidly, I filled in my tracker every week and was the star pupil week after week. In less than a year I had lost 8 stone, in fact I struggled not to loose too much when I was on maintenance. I kept the weight off for several moinths and then I started working full time, in those days there was only one Weight Watcher meeting in our town and the evening meeting corresponded with the night that I was 'Brown Owl' - consequently the weight slowly began to creep on. Ironically just a month after starting work I was...

oldchem 30.05.2009 (24.09.2009) · Read review
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Review of Weight Watchers

LOSE WEIGHT, LOOK GREAT

Advantages: Losing weight is easy and you don't have to give up your favourite foods, great support offered, lots of local meetings during the day and eveing
Disadvantages: Weekly fee can make it an expensive way to lose weight

...At the beginning of the year I was prescribed Xenical to help me lose weight, it did work but was very slow and the side effects were very nasty so I wasn?t disappointed when my GP temporarily took me off them when I went down with a nasty illness in the Summer. However, whilst the side effects had gone there was still a downside ? having stopped the tablets all the weight I had lost, and more, suddenly started to pile back on. Initially I ignored it but when all the new clothes I had bought got to the point of being too tight I decided I had to do something positive but something that didn?t involve going back on the Xenical. I had often thought of joining Weight Watchers and it had been highly recommended to me by several people, however, as I?m not a fruit, salad or veg person I didn?t believe that any kind of ?NORMAL? diet...

junkboxjules 18.12.2003 · Read review
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Review of Weight Watchers

Light and Sound Hammer Bench

Advantages: Great for co-ordination
Disadvantages: The base of the hammer can be pushed into the mouth

...This review is on the Early Learning Centre (ELC) Bench and Hammer Set. I have just had a batch of ELC toys that I put forward as product proposals agreed, so this is the first of many! ****Description**** The bench, pegs and hammer in this set are all plastic. The bench has total length of 30cm and height of 12 cm, which I find really good ? my house has no room left for larger toys! One side is completely blue and the other side is green. There are four pegs in the bench, each one a different shape and colour. There is an orange square, a red hexagon, a purple triangle and a pink circle. The hammer has a total length of 14cm and has rubber stoppers at each end so that when it is bangs it does not do too much damage (or make too much noise!). The base of the hammer gets wider as it goes down, this is a safety measure to try...

jens25 21.12.2004 · Read review
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Review of Early Learning Centre Light and Sound Hammer Bench

Weight Watchers

Advantages: fun, easy, no banned foods
Disadvantages: none in my opinion

...After having my son it was hard to imagine how difficult it would be getting back into shape. Constantly tired from being up all night, excercise was the last thing on my mind. I barely had enough time to eat never mind evaluate what i was eating. As you can imagine this resulted in me eating the wrong things and gaining an exceptional amount of weight. One year on from my sons birth I held my breathe and stepped onto the scales. Mortified, I glanced down at the 14st 2lb. At 5ft 3" this classed me as obese. I was shocked into action. The next day as i was chatting to my mum about my new findings she recommended weight watchers to me. Registration was free at this time so i thought there was no harm in going along. Before i stepped into the meeting room i felt my heart pounding. I expected everyone to judge me by how much i had...

vikki-adam 05.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Weight Watchers

My weight loss journey

Advantages: I will be thinner!
Disadvantages: It will be hard work - but worth it!

...Member?s advice on weight loss: (Update: Week Two: 16th June 2009): This week was harder than my first week, I get terrible PMS which leads to cravings and also affects my mood a lot. I have had several bouts of tearfulness and some terrible mood swings. Normally a couple of bars of chocolate would help, (I am sure it does something to calm my moods), but obviously that is out of the question. Money has been a bit short this week too which has added to the stress but at least I have not ruined my diet! I actually lost more this week, 7.5lbs! Woohoo! That means I have nearly lost a stone in two weeks! I don?t expect the weight loss to keep up this speed but I am really happy about it! The main thing I did better this week is drinking water, I am sure that I have been drinking my 2 litres a day and I really do feel so much better...

donnabroom 24.05.2009 (16.06.2009) · Read review
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Review of Members Advice on Weight Loss