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2. Soloflex - Wikipedia

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   Soloflex home gym machines use an elastic element to provide resistance. The product also comes with an instructional DVD. Soloflex's WBV Platform made news in July 2007 for a Consumer Reports review that demonstrated it had been using claims from research that may not apply to their machine. [3] "At press time, even the research on its Website ...

3. Vibrating belt machine - Wikipedia

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   A vibrating belt machine is a device that was promoted to passively reduce body fat through the use of an oscillating or vibrating belt around the exercise subject's waist, without active exercise by the user. The device was widely promoted in the 1950s and 1960s as a way to break up abdominal fat through vibration.

4. Resistance band - Wikipedia

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   Originating in the early 20th century, [citation needed] the bands were originally made from surgical tubing and the exercises conducted for muscle rehabilitation, and resistance band training is now used widely as part of general fitness and strength training. Their flexibility in use and light weight are a significant advantage for many users.

5. Exercise equipment - Wikipedia

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   A selection of home exercise equipment: yoga blocks, yoga mat, dumbbells, pull-up/chin-up bar, push-up handles and gloves. Exercise equipment is any apparatus or device used during physical activity to enhance the strength or conditioning effects of that exercise by providing either fixed or adjustable amounts of resistance, or to otherwise enhance the experience or outcome of an exercise routine.

6. Pneumatic exercise equipment - Wikipedia

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   Modern machines with repetition counters and electrical pressure tubes promote precise training of certain muscle groups or a sector of physical functions affecting ones quality of life. [1] Guidelines for health exercise [ 2 ] can also be the purpose of training which can be pursued and monitored by loading a training program to a Smart Card ...

7. Miranda Esmonde-White - Wikipedia

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   Miranda Esmonde-White (born May 9, 1949) is a Canadian fitness trainer, former ballerina with the National Ballet of Canada, and author of books on aging, health and fitness. She created the dynamic stretching and strengthening workout, Essentrics , and the PBS fitness TV show, Classical Stretch , based on Essentrics .

8. Exercise machine - Wikipedia

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   An elliptical machine, a type of exercise machine. An exercise machine is any machine used for physical exercise. These range from simple spring-like devices to computerized electromechanical devices to recirculating-stream swimming pools. Most exercise machines incorporate an ergometer.

9. Hydraulic exercise equipment - Wikipedia

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   Hydraulic circuit training machines were first developed for The Henley Corporation in the 1970s, and are now becoming an increasingly popular form of exercise. [ citation needed ] The fundamental principles behind these designs are based on fluid dynamics : Force that is applied at one point is transmitted to another point using an ...