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.

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How to Reset My NordicTrack Elliptical

NordicTrack makes many residential fitness machines, including treadmills, exercise bikes and ellipticals. Some of the features of the NordicTrack ellipticals include adjustable stride length, preset workouts, iFit compatibility, foldable units and incline power ramps.

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How to Maintain a Nordic Track Treadmill

A NordicTrack treadmill can be a significant financial investment. As of September 2010, the treadmills listed on the NordicTrack website range from $600 to $3000. You will get longer life out of your treadmill if you perform some basic maintenance tasks.

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ProForm 740CS Treadmill Specs

Pro-Form is a popular manufacturer of in-home fitness equipment, including ellipticals, bikes and treadmills. The CS line by Pro-Form has existed for several years. The latest model is the 980CS. The 740CS is an older model in the CS line of treadmills.

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How to Change Your Treadmill From KPH to MPH

When you take a walk or go for a run, you probably track the distance covered. This is a practical way to measure progress over time. Most treadmills provide feedback about your workout including distance traveled. The distance data can be set to either English or metric measurements.

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NordicTrack Vs. Pro-Form Treadmill

Having a treadmill at home provides you with a convenient way to get in a workout even if you can't make it to the gym. There are dozens of in-home treadmill manufacturers, each one with numerous model lines.

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Why Is My Treadmill Belt Slipping or Skipping?

Working out on a treadmill at home is more convenient for many compared to going to the gym. However, with convenience comes some extra responsibility -- you will need to maintain, troubleshoot and service your treadmill to keep it running well. One common treadmill issue is the walking belt slipping or skipping.

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How Accurate Are Treadmills on Distance?

Most treadmills provide you feedback about your workout, including approximate calories burned, speed, elapsed time and distance covered. Consumers are often leery of the accuracy of this information.

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What Are the Benefits of Kettlebell Snatches?

The kettlebell snatch is a full-body, power exercise. It works the hamstrings, quads, back, and shoulders. You pull a kettlebell off the floor from a squat position, swing the weight up, then dip under it, and press it overhead. Perform the movement quickly and explosively.

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The Weight of an Olympic Easy Curl Bar

Curl bars, often referred to as EZ bars, are long bars that have angled grips in the middle. Like regular barbells, curl bars are available as a standard or Olympic bar. Unlike regular barbells, Olympic curl bars do not have specific dimensions and weight.

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Nordic Track Elliptical CX 990 Weight

The NordicTrack CX 990 is a discontinued elliptical model. It originally was introduced in 2003. The CX 990 is designed for in-home use only. It is significantly heavier than newer NordicTrack elliptical machines. Oddly, the CX 990 also has a lower maximum user capacity.

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Is it OK to Put a Treadmill in an Unheated Garage?

Treadmills take up quite a bit of space and they don't always match the decor of your home. Placing them in an out-of-the-way spot, such as your garage, is a tempting solution. However, manufacturers strongly advise against this, especially if the garage is unheated, and it could void your warranty.

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Incline Trainer Vs. Treadmill

An incline trainer is a specific type of treadmill that offers steeper incline grades, sometimes as high as 40 percent. However, an incline trainer is not simply a treadmill with extra incline capability. Although similar in many ways, treadmills and incline trainers have different features, functions and benefits.

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Total Gym Vs. Weider

Total Gym produces several models of home gyms that use your body weight as resistance. Each gym has the same basic design, but differs in features. Weider Fitness makes several types of home gyms, but the Total Body Works 5000 competes directly with the Total Gym models.

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Is There a Difference Between Dumbbells & Barbells?

Barbells and dumbbells are the two main types of free weights. Using this type of resistance does not restrict your range of motion the way a weight machine does. With free weights, your movements more closely resemble real-life movements.

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My ProForm XP Incline Is Stuck at the Top

The ProForm XP series includes several treadmill models, including the XP 690T, XP 615 and XP 580. All ProForm XP treadmills have power ramps that incline up to 10 percent. If your incline is stuck, you can first try calibrating it before contacting a service professional.

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Treadmill Electrical Requirements

The power requirements of a treadmill vary among brands and models. Most residential treadmills run on a standard 120-volt, grounded and dedicated outlet. Manufacturers recommend the use of a surge suppressor that meets specific standards.

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