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Often these units included non-weight exercise stations, such as a chin-up bar or a slant board for sit-ups. Athletic and exercise venues of all sorts - schools, colleges, YMCAs, private gyms (such as the Vic Tanny chain), and professional sports teams - acquired Universal Gym machines to supplement or replace free weights.
A weight machine is an exercise machine used for weight training that uses gravity as the primary source of resistance and a combination of simple machines to convey that resistance to the person using the machine. Each of the simple machines (pulley, lever, wheel, incline) changes the mechanical advantage of the overall machine relative to the ...
The Weider Weight Training Log: Including a Daily Planner. Hushion House. ISBN 978-0-9684004-2-5. Joe Weider (2003). Training Notebook Complete Illustrated Guide to the 74 Best Muscle-building Exercises. Weider Publishing Limited. ISBN 9780945797333. Joe Weider (2004). Joe Weider's Muscle and Fitness Training Notebook. Weider Publishing Limited.
A selection of home exercise equipment: yoga blocks, yoga mat, dumbbells, pull-up/chin-up bar, push-up handles and gloves. Exercise equipment is any apparatus or device used during physical activity to enhance the strength or conditioning effects of that exercise by providing either fixed or adjustable amounts of resistance, or to otherwise enhance the experience or outcome of an exercise routine.
Weight machines commonly use specialized sets of plates (called "weight stacks"), consisting of a set of rectangular plates mounted on rails. Through a cable and pulley system, the burden is transferred to the machine's user. By placing a pin in the stack that causes the cable to pull on each plate above the pin, the weight is selected.
The Smith machine was invented by American Jack LaLanne, who rigged up a sliding apparatus in his gym in the 1950s. It was spotted by Rudy Smith, who commissioned Paul Martin to improve it. [11] [12] Smith then installed the modified model in a gym he was managing at the time, Vic Tanny's gym in Los Angeles. [13]
World History Group is a magazine publishing company headquartered in Leesburg, Virginia.It was founded in 2006 as Weider History Group by Eric Weider, the son of fitness entrepreneur Ben Weider (and nephew of Joe Weider) and current President of Schiff Nutrition International.
Modern machines with repetition counters and electrical pressure tubes promote precise training of certain muscle groups or a sector of physical functions affecting ones quality of life. [1] Guidelines for health exercise [ 2 ] can also be the purpose of training which can be pursued and monitored by loading a training program to a Smart Card ...