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.

Close-up of weights on an exercise machine

Can You Build Muscle Using Machines?

Muscle strength is built through a process of muscle fiber recruitment and an increase in muscle fiber size. In order to build muscle you have to engage in daily weight training sessions.

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Young man using leg press machine

Hamstring Exercise Machines

Many gyms have a hamstring machine that fixes your body in one position while you perform leg flexion against a resistance.

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