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You have yet to begin building your home or garage gym. When the pandemic first hit in 2020, all the stores sold out immediately. You rushed to call in and order when shipments came in, but they sold out too fast so you went home disillusioned and still without a way to get your gym-level gains from home.

Now it’s 2021 and you’re looking to bring the gym home once more. Disappointed with last year’s fitness progress, you’re feeling more ready than ever to bring the gym closer than your couch. That way you have no valid excuses for not getting a good workout in.

So where do you start? The best investment you could make upfront is adjustable dumbbells. With adjustable dumbbells, you’re making an investment into a piece of equipment that will carry you through your fitness gains. When you invest in a set of adjustable dumbbells, you won’t have to continue to buy bigger weights as you get stronger. When you already have the option of 5-45lbs, you’re set to build strength for years to come with no additional dumbbell sets needed.

Our Core1 Adjustable Dumbbell sets are sold in pairs. You can easily adjust the weight increments from 5 - 45lbs simply by turning the handle.

The beauty of adjustable dumbbells is that they work for nearly any space. Rather than requiring a whole wall like fixed dumbbells, adjustable dumbbells come with a single stand that takes up very little space. This makes them perfect to add to your garage gym without taking up any of your precious room. It also makes them a great option if you have a space that you convert for workouts, as adjustable dumbbells will easily tuck away with their stand into a closet or cabinet.

Adjustable dumbbells work for any home gym space, including those where noise is a factor. With just one set and adjustment stand you don’t have the clanging iron sound that you get with a traditional rack and fixed dumbbells. They take very little time and effort to adjust. Because of their easy adjustment it makes it super and easy for you to switch up their weight between sets. This is ideal for the home workout, giving you lots of options with one piece of equipment.

With the range of motion that dumbbells offer, they are an absolute must as you are beginning your home gym. They offer limitless possibilities for maximizing muscular development as the wide range of motion allows for your surrounding muscles to strengthen and support the muscle that your workout focuses on. Adjustable dumbbells are also a great option for supersets and drop sets where switching from one weight to another quickly is important.

As you’re looking into making your home gym dreams come true in 2021, adjustable dumbbells are the first step in the right direction. They won’t break the bank, the won’t break your flooring, and they’ll provide value to your workouts for years to come. You could spend $1400 on a dumbbell rack with 16 pairs of dumbbells, which is great if you already have an existing home gym setup with room to spare, or you could spend $400, start your home gym, and add the same value to your workouts for years to come.

If you’re ready to make your 2021 resolutions a reality

Today it is easier and more affordable than ever to ditch your gym membership and build up your own home gym. The benefits of doing so are immeasurable.

Monthly gym fees add up over time so it can easily pay off and be more cost effective to invest in your own equipment. With a home gym you only pay for the equipment that you want and need for your fitness routine. When you invest in your own professional equipment  you can guarantee your own access to the best pieces of exercise equipment for your workout routine.

By investing in your home gym, you’re investing in a gym option available to you 24/7. Want to work out in the middle of the night? No problem. Squeezing in a workout on your lunch break? Simple. With total access to your own premium equipment in your home gym you are guaranteeing your daily workout. It’s difficult with driving to the gym to make two trips in a day, but by making a space for a home gym you can easily split up workouts into two or three sessions. If you are already taking the time to drive to and from the gym multiple times a day, then investing in a home gym gives you back all of your travel time.

Not only can you workout at all hours of the night with your own at-home gym, the flexibility of a home gym means that your workout can be whatever you want it to be. There’s no pressure to stick to a particular routine, or specific equipment. Your workout can be even further tailored to you and your personal workout needs.

With your home gym you have the luxury of having your gym completely and totally to yourself. Especially in 2020, this can allow you to workout in the comfort of knowing that this equipment is not going to be used outside of your household. No one else is sweating. No one else is touching the equipment or wearing too much cologne or perfume.

Building up your home gym also eliminates the background noise of others talking or working out. No interruptions or distractions from gym patrons. You don’t have to think twice about anyone having an opinion of you and what you’re doing. There is no one outside of your household you have to share equipment with, so there is no one to interrupt you and chat. No one is hogging the weights and training equipment that you need.

With a home gym you have the complete freedom to customize your workouts to your lifestyle and desires. You can workout in your PJs if you really want to. With a home garage gym you can also get fresh air in a way that you couldn’t otherwise. With a garage gym you can just pull up the garage door and voila! Clean Fresh Air.

Not only is an at home gym open 24/7, but it gets your whole family in on the experience. With a gym you have childcare. With a home gym, it gets your children interested in fitness. At gyms children are in the childcare area. In the garage or home gym they can see what their parents are up to all the time. Having a quality home gym can teach children the value of staying fit from a young age so that they see working out as a natural part of a healthy lifestyle.

Investing in a quality at-home gym means that you can enjoy all of these benefits and perks of an at-home gym for many years to come.

Upper body resistance training is a staple and focus of men’s fitness routines, but should this also be incorporated into fitness routines for women? While women may not want to take the same approach and workout structure as their male counterparts, it is important for women to train the upper body as well as the lower body.

For all-around health and wellness, all muscle groups need to be shown attention. Over-emphasis on one part of the body while neglecting other parts of the body can lead to strain on the joints, rather than achieving a heightened level of athleticism and strength.

Women’s hormones and physiology are different than men, and this determines the amount of strength and muscular development that they can achieve. Women don’t need to be concerned about looking like men when it comes to strengthening their upper bodies. Women naturally have about 1/3 of the amount of upper body muscle that men do. So, whether developed or not, a woman cannot obtain the same kind of muscle structure as a man the same size, doing the same workout. Muscles are also developed by how often they are used and by how much weight is used to train. If you aren’t a professional body-builder and aren’t training like one, you need not fret about looking like one.

Testosterone is the hormone that allows muscle mass to develop more quickly, this causes the difference in muscle mass between men and women. Women have around one tenth the level of testosterone that men do. So when it comes to training, women have little to fear when it comes to achieving the rapid muscle development that men achieve. Biologically, compared to men the same size, women cannot develop muscle at the same pace with the same training regimen.

Getting in a full body workout, and not neglecting the upper body, will result in more muscle mass. The more that muscle mass is increased, the more calories and fat that are burned. So for men and women alike, working out the entire body is extremely valuable for weight loss, and for over-all athleticism.

For women, having a shapely upper body is shown to improve self-esteem. Studies show that resistance training is shown to be more effective for self-esteem improvement in women than simply walking as exercise. It also makes day-to-day tasks easier and prevents injury. Upper body resistance training strengthens connective tissue in the elbows, shoulders, neck, spine, wrists, and hands. This improves joint integrity and stability in addition to preventing injury.

Women also have some advantages when it comes to resistance training. Because women have smaller muscles, they can isolate them more often without worrying about the longer recovery periods that men experience. While women can take advantage of this difference, it is important to be careful when pressing and pulling heavy at the same weights as men at their same size. This is because women have more of a tendency to become arm dominant than men, which can actually complicate strength training and increase the risk of injuries while training.

One of the biggest reasons why women should not neglect strength training of the upper body is that muscle development increases bone strength. When muscles contract against bone, it creates stress that causes bones to strengthen against the contractions. The stronger that muscles get, the stronger that bones must become to handle the muscle contractions.

In conclusion, women who train should also incorporate upper body strengthening exercises into their workout routines to achieve optimal fitness and general athleticism. It isn’t imperative and perhaps not even recommended that women use the same level of weight as a man their same size would be able to use, but women can take advantage of their biological advantage when it comes to isolations and can focus on these to build up their upper body muscles in addition to lower body strengthening exercises.

Sources:

Khartdavis. “5 Reasons Why Women Should Train Upper Body.” Bodybuilding.com, 7 Feb. 2019, www.bodybuilding.com/content/5-reasons-why-women-should-train-upper-body.html.

“Sex Differences in Training and Metabolism • Stronger by Science.” Stronger by Science, 26 Jan. 2020, www.strongerbyscience.com/gender-differences-in-training-and-diet/.

“The History of Technogym: from Foundation to the Present Day.” Technogym, 11 Mar. 2019, www.technogym.com/us/our-history/.

Technogym is known worldwide for their superb design and innovative technology, but how did they get the position that they hold in the world of fitness today?

It all started in 1983. At the age of just 22, Nerio Alessandri and his brother Pierluigi founded Technogym and began building exercise equipment in the garage of his home. Just one year after its inception, Technogym designed their first full line for strength training, called the Isotonic line. Two years after that, Unica was launched, this was the first product designed for domestic use.

Continuing on their path of innovation, Technogym invented the CPR (Constant Pulse Rate) system in 1990, a scientific algorithm for constant pulse/heart rate training. This became the Hallmark of Technogym products. A couple of years later Technogym introduced their first equipment for rehabilitation into their product range, enhancing users recovery process and aiding in the medical recovery process.

By the late 1980s, Technogym had launched a partnership campaign in the football world and Formula 1, becoming an official supplier of equipment for the athletic training of some of the biggest football clubs (including A.C. Milan), globally renowned sportsmen (like Formula 1 drivers Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher) and by 1990 major sport events like the 1990 Football World Cup.

Today wearable devices are everywhere, but in 1996 Technogym was on the forefront of technology with their development of the Wellness system. This was the first ever solution for managing training through a personal device. It was introduced via the portable TGS key. This was an archetypical example of wearable device. The TGS key was used to activate equipment and keep track of users programs and training data. In 2000, Technogym was chosen as the official supplier for athletic training at the Olympics, a recognition of their worldwide acclaim and superior equipment. In Sydney, more than 10,000 athletes trained using Technogym equipment.

In 2002 Technogym continued to incorporate technology into superior gym equipment and launched Wellness TV: the first TV screen integrated into a piece of fitness equipment. In 2007 this was taken a step farther with Visioweb: the first piece of fitness equipment connected to the web: a breakthrough enabling exciting new possibilities for the wellness experience.

Technogym launched the world’s first “wellness campus” in the presence of the president of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, and former president of the United States Bill Clinton in 2012. Four years later Technogym continued to make waves, as they were listed on the Milan Stock Exchange on May 3^rd. In the same year Technogym released Skillmill, an innovative non-motorized piece of equipment that allowed athletes to train indoors for speed, power, and agility.

Technogym was chosen as the official supplier for athletic training for the sixth time in a row at the 2016 Olympics, held in Rio. The Technogym skill line was finally completed in 2018 with the addition of the Skillbike. In 2018 Technogym participated at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, their seventh time as the official supplier of the Olympic Games.

Today, Technogym continues to provide top notch gym equipment to professional training facilities and home gyms alike. Check out our selection of new and used Technogym equipment here at Buy and Sell Fitness for premium equipment at an affordable rate for your commercial or home fitness center.

Sources:

“Nerio Alessandri.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 6 Aug. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerio_Alessandri.

“The History of Technogym: from Foundation to the Present Day.” Technogym, 11 Mar. 2019, www.technogym.com/us/our-history/.

Thank you for considering purchasing one of our pre-sale items.

So how exactly does a pre-sale work?

Once our shipment has left the manufacturer, we offer it for sale online due to the overwhelming demand for gym equipment.

Once you purchase your item from Buy and Sell Fitness.com, it is automatically reserved for you. If for any reason, your item does not show up within two weeks of the stated date, we will give you a 100% refund. No questions asked.

We built our business 10  years ago based on one guiding principal, do what you say you’re going to do, period. With the high demand for gym equipment, many fly-by-night companies have popped up offering deals that are too good to be true. In addition, companies are engaging in price gauging.

At Buy and Sell Fitness we have coined the phrase “Pre-pandemic Pricing” which, simply put, means we are going to continue to offer our current and new customers the fair pricing we have for the last ten years.

We want to thank you for considering purchasing equipment from Buy and Sell Fitness, and helping us help you lift, ride, run.

A better look at the best fitness equipment for working your glutes (butt) and hamstrings

With the summer now a mere few weeks away, many of us will now have firmly turned our attention to our physiques and will be looking to really step up our training over the coming weeks in preparation for the summer, and for many, bathing suit season. To achieve the perfect body this year, we’ll need to ensure that no part of our bodies is neglected, and that includes the glutes (butt) and our hamstrings. You might not want a butt like Kim Kardashian, but a little shape is certainly nothing to be ashamed of, especially if we can tone it at the same time. Our hamstrings too, are often neglected in favour of the quads, but again, a toned set of hamstrings not only look great, they’re extremely functional too. Here’s a look at the best fitness equipment required for working both of these body parts.

A barbell and squat rack – Barbell squats are an absolutely fantastic exercise for working the hamstrings and glutes, and are considered one of the most effective compound exercises for adding mass and toning the muscles simultaneously. For that reason, a barbell and a squat rack could come in extremely handy for anybody looking to work these particular body parts. You don’t need to use heavy weights, in fact you can simply use the bar if you wish, just make sure that you use a squat rack for protection, and that you focus on really getting your butt at least parallel to the ground.

Hamstring curl machines – Ok, the clue’s probably in the name here, and yes, you guessed it, hamstring curl machines are indeed used primarily for targeting the hamstring muscles on your upper legs. Hamstring curl machines can require users to either sit up straight, or lie down face forward, depending on the design of the machine, before bending their knees against a chosen weight they selected to create resistance.

Cardio machines – As well as weight machines and equipment, cardio machines are also very beneficial for toning the butt and hamstrings, especially those which can be set on an incline. Stair climbing machines for example, are very beneficial as not only do they burn calories, which will help strip away and give you a leaner and firmer look, but they also work the glutes, hamstrings, and calf muscles, helping to strengthen and tone them. Setting a treadmill to an incline and running or walking will also target these very same areas and burn fat at the same time.

Cable machines – All good gyms will have a cable machine with various handles and attachments and these machines can be very beneficial when it comes to working the butt and hamstrings. For an effective workout, securely fasten an ankle attachment to your ankle, and set the cable pulley as low down to the ground as possible. Whilst facing the machine, slowly raise your leg in the air behind you, making sure to keep your head up straight. This is known as a rear leg lift and you will quickly begin to feel the burn after a few repetitions. After completing your working set, switch legs, and repeat as necessary.

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