Weight Training Equipment - Used and Commercial Weight Training Equipments

Use of Equipments in weight training

Various equipment has been used in weight training. The most popular are dumbbells. I recommend weight-training exercises with a pair of light dumbbells. With proper technique most of the muscles in the body can be strengthened with the use of dumbbells. Advantage of dumbbells is that cheap convenient and can be used in a small area.

Pulley Machines:

Pulley Machines have revolutionarised weight training. Though they are bulky and one has to visit a gymnasium for a wide variety of pulley exercises. The advantages are fabulous. The pulley system is the least injurious of the weight training methods. There are very few compressive stresses on the joints and the machines work on distraction principles.

Use of springs was very popular in the past. The variety of chest expanders, grip strengtheners and popular brands like Bullworker, provided isometric exercises. Isometrics were very popular in the past. Studies have shown that isometric exercises though very good for strength buildup can raise the blood pressure and prove to be hazardous.
Hydraulic Machines for Weight Training are used in sophisticated gymnasiums. Here the injury levels are very minimum, even when one is overtraining certain groups of muscles or using these for power building. Hydraulic machines are very useful because antagonistic muscles can be exercised on the same apparatus for example; the machine, which exercises the biceps muscles also, exercises the triceps. Disadvantage is that it is very expensive.
Weight training can also be performed with sandbags, weight cuffs and elastic bands, which are very portable and convenient outdoors.
Strength training using one's own body weight is termed as Free Hand Muscle Toning. The popular exercises using this principle are squats, sit ups, pull-ups, push ups, etc. The advantage is their convenience and simplicity. The problem with this type of training is that over weight people can cause injuries to their muscles and joints due to over loading by their own excess body weight. The persons using weights like dumbbells and pulleys avoid this by choosing weights, which are much lighter.

Weight training is recommended for woman and gents, young and old.

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