Home Fitness 101

I used to have free weights but they are too bulky and I was never able to push the limits because I never had anyone to spot me. I know you cant get the same work out from a machine as you can from free weights but it is the same principal; instead of gravity and a weight providing resistance a machine can simulate the same kind of resistance. My question is what is the best home gym? I have a budget of roughly $800.00 and the two gyms I am currently looking at are the Bowflex Blaze and the Bioforce home gym. What’s better? Bowflex looks good but I hear that the power rods eventually loose their elasticity over time and I tried both out at a store and it didn’t seem like it was consistent resistance from start to finish. Bioforce on the other hand seemed to provide pretty consistent resistance through start to finish but I am concerned about the hydraulics because it will be in my garage and it gets cold, hot (45 degrees in the winter and 90 in the summer) and dusty in my garage and I am concerned how that will affect the hydraulics. What do you think; are they good, or is there something better out there? I want to have a machine that can hit all the muscle groups but has a small footprint.

Get a rack and you can go to your limit safely with free weights.

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