Essentials for the home gym

Suw — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:36:47 +0000

Kev and I like to go to the local gym as often as we are able, usually two or three mornings during the week, with longer sessions on the weekend if we can. I never used to be a gym person nor, indeed, did I used to have any truck at all with physical exercise. But three years of contentment has put the pounds on, and I am determined to get them back off again.

So I can’t imagine building a house, now, without having room for some gym equipment. It doesn’t need to be much, just enough to keep us moving. Kev swears that the best thing for a compact home gym is a Nordic skiing machine, because apparently it’s good for exercising your whole body.

Me, I want a simple treadmill. And I feel that it’s important to say that my reasons for wanting one have nothing to do with these, honest:

UPDATE: Unfortunately embedding has been disabled for the video above, so it won’t play. I can’t imagine why! If you want to see it then it’s still available on YouTube.

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Essentials for the home gym