Commercial Fitness Equipment Can Promote a Greater Level of Fitness & Wellbeing

The benefits of regular and effective exercise are huge:

• Lowers the risk of you generating and dying from heart disease


• Reduces the risk of you developing or worsening high blood pressure


• Lowers the danger of you developing or increasing high blood cholesterol


• Lowers the risk of dying early


• Depression and anxiety are massively reduced


• Colon or breast cancer becomes less likely


• The occurrence of diabetes becomes less likely


• Your body fat and general weight can be maintained


• Healthy muscles, joints and bones are constructed and maintained


• Your psychological wellbeing is promoted


• Work, recreation and sporting performance is enhanced

A vast range of equipment exists with which exercises are made easier and more accessible. There is a machine for virtually every body area, using them in the correct way adds to your overall fitness and wellbeing.

Cardiovascular machines include the treadmill, rowing machine, stair machine, Nordic track, elliptical trainer and stationary cycle. Machines can aid your exercise routine in a number of ways, e.g. treadmills can provide a safer, more absorbing surface for you leg joints than a road would. Additionally you will be able to exercise whatever the weather, from subzero through to hot summer weather of 30 degrees C or higher.

Improved cardiovascular exercise creates the following benefits:

• Improved minimum oxygen consumption (VO2max)


• Increased cardiovascular/ cardiorespiratory function (heart and lungs)


• Increased blood quantity pumped with each beat of the heart


• Increased volume of blood


• Improved ability to transport oxygen in blood


• Lowered heart workload when undergoing submaximal intensity exercise


• Increased quantity of blood pumped by the heart every minute


• More blood flows to the muscles which are more able to use the arriving oxygen


• Lower resting diastolic and systolic blood pressure in people who have a high blood pressure


• Elevated HDL cholesterol (beneficial cholesterol)


• Improved muscle tolerance of lactic acid build-up


• Diminished quantities of fat in the body; improved control of body weight


• Decreased blood pressure at any submaximal level of exercise


• Lowered insulin resistance and heightened tolerance to glucose


• Reduced triglyceride levels in the blood

Anaerobic or weight lifting equipment includes machines with built in weights, and free weights alongside a variety of bench and other structures, both aiming to provide you with a wide variety of body movements. Machine weight lifting equipment includes the bench press, so called ‘pec-deck’, lat pull machine (exercises the shoulders and arms) and smith machine (mechanized power lifting contraption). For free weights exercises there are dumbbells and their associated racks, various weights bars and their weights, and benches such as a power rack, squat rack, incline and bench press, preacher curl (arm exercises) and leg extensions (strengthens the leg muscles). Although machines here don’t exercise so many muscles at once, they do exercise individual muscle groups more effectively. When using machines it is advisable to use a wide range so as to gain a beneficial spread of muscle workouts and not end up with a few out of place, oversized sets of muscles which can cause damage to other parts of the body.

Anaerobic exercise promotes the following health benefits:

• Possible decrease in resting diastolic and systolic blood pressure


• Reduces harmful cholesterol


• Potential increase in overall body flexibility


• Lowered body fat and increased muscle mass


• Heightened insulin sensitivity and tolerance to glucose


• Improved strength of your muscles


• Ligament strengthening


• Increased balance, strength and overall body functioning in older adults

With all this positive information in mind, why not start exercising today. Exercise equipment is readily available from specialist stores around the country. Make a start to a healthier and more productive life.