Life Fitness Signature Series Leg Press

Advantages: An easy to use, heavy duty aid to personal fitness and well being
Disadvantages: Initially costly but otherwise none

...About a year ago I purchased the second piece of equipment for our home gym. Now that I have became comfortable with it in actual use, I can perhaps give a fair appraisal. The Background I have a busy life style (who doesn’t these days). I am aware – acutely as often as not – that desk based office work, staring at a computer screen for many hours, day in, day out is not conducive to long term fitness. I had noted the sense of breathlessness, taking increasingly longer to subside after a hurried walk up a hill or a dash up two or three flights of stairs. The leisure hours are always at a premium and while I do not smoke or eat a heavily fat laden diet, the appreciation of a good concert or an Estate Bottled 1997 is not the most athletic of pursuits. In the past I have held membership of a gym. The prime aim was always... Read review

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Advantages: Can be as good as a Weights-Gym/Multi-Gym for building/training Upper Body and Mid-Section
Disadvantages: Not as effective for Lower Body as it is for Upper Body, Not that easy to 'Fold-Away' every time you use it

...'t afford to be so 'selfish' as seemed necessary when I was on my personal quest to build the 'body-beautiful' for myself. Besides there were/are other rewards to be had in life - and I don't regret for a moment giving up my hard fitness/bodybuilding regime in order to have the wonderfully fulfilled life that I now have with my lovely wife and kids. It simply meant making sacrifices and giving up certain things for the things in life that I feel really mattered! SO ..... ALONG COMES THE TOTAL GYM 1000 ... In 2001 I was working many many hours to build a future for my wife and family and having realised a while before that I just didn't have the time to go to the gym after working a 12 hour day - I figured that I would need something effective enough to keep me in reasonable shape (even if not quite what I used to be!). At that time I must say... Read review

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Advantages: Almost "full sized bike" rideability. Less likely to get stolen if stored indoors instead of in shed!
Disadvantages: Small wheels go down holes further = harder ride. Expensive unless you MUST have a folder.

...these as it's impossible to "kick-back" the pedals to a good starting position. Decent mudguards, a softish saddle (now replaced by a traditional Brooks all-leather job), reflectors (essential to make it street-legal), a pump and a three-speed hub gear are included. It also comes with a folding left pedal, which makes sense of its total fold-ability - I'll come on to that later. Having done most of my riding on road, I can safely say that I'm heartily sick of "9 gazillion" derailleur gears, and their intransigence to being changed just when you want to most, i.e when caught out by, or when standing at, traffic lights. A hub gear like the good old Sturmey-Archer is much less fussy, (or the Sachs as now fitted), and only refuses to change if you are pressing hard on the pedals. Whether standing still, freewheeling or pedalling lightly... Read review

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