Tuesday, July 26, 2011

A Quick Guide to Fitness Gear

By Thomas Wilson


If you are intending on giving you better level of fitness, which all baseball players should, you will need to know about different styles of gym equipment. Whether you are planning to buy a piece or two of equipment for your home gym, or you are utilizing your school or gym's, you will want to know which pieces of equipment can help you get the very best baseball workouts. This guide will hopefully provide you with a basic background on a few of the most popular pieces of equipment and let you deicide which ones you would want to begin using to help you improve your overall health and performance about the field.

Treadmill: Essentially the most well-known piece of gym equipment, the treadmill is designed to provide you with a good cardio workout by walking, jogging, or running. Some benefits of by using a treadmill are you could workout in spite of the weather, you can take control of your incline, and if you happen to get an injury you will not be miles from home. You should run on the treadmill just as should you be running outside. Motorized treadmills start from around $400 and can run up to $7,000 based on what features you want. Some of the higher priced models have some really cool features like customized workout sessions, top of the line shock absorbing technology, and much more! All gyms really should have no less than a few treadmills to utilize.

Stationary Bike: Stationary bikes, like treadmills, can supply you with an intense cardio workout. There are two main forms of stationary bikes: upright bikes which ride much like a real bike, and recumbent bikes where you are leaning back and peddling with you feet out in front of your body. Once again similar to treadmills, stationary bikes have different numbers of potential to deal with imitate riding up and down hills. Stationary bikes start from around $100 and will run up to around $4,000.

Elliptical Crosstrainer: One of the most popular pieces of equipment at many health clubs and fitness centers, the elliptical crosstrainer was created to provide you with all of the advantages of jogging, though less stress on the joints and fewer perceived physical exertion. Elliptical crosstrainers begin from around $150 and can run up close to $5,000.

Free Weights: There are plenty of different weight lifting exercises you can do with free weights that there's absolutely no way I possibly could list them all here. Bench pressing and bicep curls would possibly be the two most popular exercises related to free weights, though they are so diverse that you could pretty much work on any muscle group in your body using them. There are lots of different sets of free weights accessible in the $75-$1,000 range.

Weight Machines: As options to (or in addition to) free weights, weight machines each perform a specific exercise to work over a specific group of muscles. A disadvantage in free weights is that to carry out as many different workouts as possible do with free weights, you need to have a variety of weight machines which will get very expensive. For that reason, very few people have weight machines at their house, but alternatively opt to use a local gym's wide selection of different machines. An advantage to weight machines over free weights is that if you can no more lift the load or you need to stop lifting for reasons uknown, the weights won't come crashing down, since there is something of pulleys and cables that may slowly lower the weights. Weight machines, based on which one will cost ranging from $200 and $10,000.

Although you don't have to go out and buy many of these pieces of equipment being a successful baseball player, you will need to try to have access to at least some of these whether it be at your home, at your school, or at your local gym. You will likely be with such pieces of equipment throughout the offseason probably the most and it will assist you to keep a daily routine no matter the weather outside. While this equipment isn't 100% necessary, it is rather important that you try to make use of it as much as possible given it really helps a lot in gaining better baseball workouts and hitting drills!




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