Exercise Equipment Guide: Treadmills, Weights, and Home Gyms

What happens when your treadmill stops suddenly, and how can you troubleshoot common home gym equipment? Selecting the best mini-trampolines, resistance bands, and cross trainers can significantly improve your at-home fitness results and safety.

How to Assemble a York 2001 Multi Gym

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Jo Jackson

The York 2001 Multi Gym is a home gym that boasts 54 exercise routines. Some of these include bench presses, leg curls, leg extensions, lat pull-downs and seated rowing. Resistance is provided by cables attached to a stack of 12 weights that provide levels of resistance up to 140 pounds.

How to Use a Weider 8530 Weight Machine

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Jo Jackson

The Weider 8530 is a home gym system that has two weight stacks and a pulley system to deliver resistance up to 270 pounds. There are several stations to work all the major muscle groups. The front weight stack is connected to the press arms, the butterfly arms and the upper and lower pulleys.

Based in Canberra, Australia, Jo Jackson has written articles for newspapers and magazines since 1979 and for websites since 2007. Her writing has appeared in "Adelaide Advertiser," "Take 5" and "Australian Economic Indicators." She breeds Santa Gertrudis cattle, has owned and cared for many different animal species and has written fitness and well-being articles since 2009. She has a Bachelor of Science, honors, in biology from the University of Adelaide and a Master of Business Administration from Deakin University.