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Home gym? Your suggestions please.

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Farmall

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I got tired of WAITING for machines and equipment at the gym in my area.

Here's what I have so far and would like some opinions/ideas on what I have and what would be a good compliment to it.

Nordic Track Summit 4500 - Treadmill - couldn't find my model on their site? no link - grr
I really like this machine - smooth, quiet, has loads of training options, can connect to the web. etc

Body Solid EXM1500S - multi-station gym 1500S
hit the multi-station gym/selectorized gym/EXM1500S - couldn't get it to work in the link. 🙁

This is the smoothest of any weight machine I tried out, seems to be built really well and has a lifetime guarantee. Has a pretty good set of options for working out.

Not sure when I will add to it but would appreciate your ideas.
Thanks in advance for any input.
 
You could just stay with what you have since it covers cardio and muscular fitness. I don't like machines much but that's a personal preference only and the one's you have will suffice to get you in excellent shape. Also, it would appear that you've already made a substantial investment so I wouldn't be in a rush to purchase much more, however, an Olympic style curl bar and 150lbs of weights for it would be a good addition.
 
i would buy dumbells. can't do fly's and the like on your machine...and IMO free weights are a lot better than machine weights.
 
anybody have any comments on Weider equipment? i'm thinking about getting a home gym myself and we carry a medium line of equipment. Ours claims and returns gal says she has very few returns for failure if any.

-=bmacd=-
 
I bought the machine more for space and variety of use, I do have some dumbells but they are not nearly enuf weight - my wife uses these. Also one of the reasons for buying the machine instead of the free weights is we don't always work out at the same time and I don't think that would be the safest thing with free weights - no spotter

Yeah it was a fair amount of $ but I think that over time it will be well worth it. Definately worth it over waiting for equipment imo.

I like the idea of a curl bar, I have been using the low pulley for curls but it is definetly not the same as a bar.

Thanks for the suggestions.
 
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