Tag: weights

Made in America: Ironcompany.com

When it comes to weight lifting, strength equipment, barbells, flooring and more there is no reason to cut corners. That is why Ironcompany.com looks to American made products, not only because it good for the nation’s manufacturing sector but also assures users that they are purchasing quality as well.

The online supplier offers a USA Made exercise equipment page so users can browse products and compare what is good for the nation and good for their fitness regime. Products available through Ironcompany.com include Body Solid, Iron Grip, GP Industries, Hampton USA, Ivanko and T-Grip Barbell; as well as numerous flooring companies and even cardio. Continue reading Made in America: Ironcompany.com

Fitness Journal: To Gym or Not to Gym

There are several questions you should ask yourself when it comes to deciding on whether or not to join a gym. 

Can you achieve the same results from working out with some weights at home or taking a run or bike ride?

I know many people who are healthy, lean, and fit, but never or rarely step foot inside a gym. They achieve this by either working out at home using simple weights dumbbells or barbells or through a physically strenuous activity like biking, running, or walking, plus proper nutrition. While every individual’s body is unique and respond differently, keep in mind that there are other ways to get fit without having to go to the gym.

Of course, if you’re looking to bulk up and work specific muscles, a good gym offers plenty of machines and free weights for that purpose. Plus, many gyms have indoor amenities like a swimming pool and racquetball and basketball courts to cater to those types of activities, and, should you wish to pay for one, a trainer.

But a gym can also feel “soulless” and boring. Imagine biking on a forest trail or through an urban jungle like New York City and crossing over the George Washington Bridge into a more leafy New Jersey, all while experiencing the sights and sounds of a mini adventure. You can never get that type of exercise experience from a gym. Continue reading Fitness Journal: To Gym or Not to Gym

Shake and Tone

Dumbbells are just not intelligent. You have to lift them, lower them, and know how to use them in order to get results. The Shake Weight is one part gimmick, one part intelligence for your workout. It’s shaped like your typical dumbbell, but has an accordion gasket on each of the weighted ends to give you Dynamic Inertia, which claims to increase muscle activity by as much as 300 percent compared to traditional weights. A Shake Weight workout is also completed in six minutes compared to half an hour of toning and sculpting.

Pick up the weight, give it a little jolt and hold it while you jiggle the Shake Weight in one of a number of positions. Hold the weight with both hands in front of you and tone your triceps, biceps, and chest. Weights come with a DVD that shows you several moves to tone your targeted areas such as your upper arms. Other workouts such as the firm — with controlled, slow movements, promised to do more for your fitness in the past. This one may also overpromise. But it’s a but welcome to see an update to the classic dumbbell.

Shake Weight