Life Fitness Signature Series Seated Leg Curl

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: Good classes, excellent customer service
Disadvantages: No pool

...at Matalans next door, as there is seperate gym parking to the rear of the club. Inside the brightly-lit building is a reception area leading into the smallish gym and the fitness studio. There are a couple of seats and some drinks machines in reception. Backing onto the ladies and gents changing rooms is the jacuzzi, sauna and steam room. There is also a sunbed room but there's no pool. The club is always spotlessly clean and tidy. The changing rooms have hairdryers and if you forget your towel you can hire them for 50p from reception. Sometimes the floor gets a bit wet in the ladies changing area with people coming out of the showers, but there are signs up asking members to towel off first, so I guess it's more of an illiterate user issue! **Gym** The gym is fairly small, but the equipment is good quality. Even though they don't have... Read review

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