Free Weights
Argos Sports Supplies premier quality Free Wweights & weight lifting equipment, including rubber dumbells, olympics weights, and free weight flooring to fitness centres and gyms across Europe. Individuals and clubs can buy our free weight products at direct prices from our online shop with absolutly free delivery to mainland UK.
Fitness Benefits of Free Weight Training
Training with free weights helps you to build muscle tone as well as giving your cardiovascular system a workout, which raises your metabolism, and hence the rate at which you burn calories. Weight training is of benefit to both men and women. One long term benefit is to strengthen your bones, which reduces your risk of developing osteoporosis.
If you are thinking of buying a home exercise system, free weights give you much more versatility to train your whole body, than machines.
Uses more calories than machine workouts because more muscles are recruited to carry out the movement. Lifting and carrying weights around also boosts energy expenditure.
Biggest benefits of all, space saving, with free weight and free weights products one can full body work out from very small area.
Time saving and flexibilty, with free weights one can become more flexible with his/her scheduale and save loads of time. 5 minute Work out with free weights can be equivilant to one hour outdoor activities and free weights work out can be done any time of the day, morning, evening or afternoon.
Weight-training apparatus supports your body, so requires only one specific muscle or muscle group to work, and as a result this reduces overall energy demand.
Free weights are more functional than fixed because they mimic the complex actions we perform in daily life, such as lifting and carrying objects while bending or reaching overhead.
Machines isolate and guide muscles and joints, so the movements they create aren't very functional. Most exercises take place sitting down, so posture and core stability are easily neglected, too.
Enable you to target a specific muscle or muscle group from many different angles using a variety of exercises, so the potential strength benefits are greater, provided you make the effort.
Produce superior results compared with machines, according to research at the University of Edinburgh. In general, movements involved in different sports can be more closely replicated using free weights.
Types of free weight products
Free weights include dumbbells, olympic weights, barbells, and weight benches.
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