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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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   Resistance bands are simple to use, [3] and their light weight allows people to easily carry them if travelling and continue with routine sessions for strength training. Although there are many different forms of exercises for the bands, the resistance of the band as well as the number of repetitions are the main variables used to lower or ...

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. Strength training - Wikipedia

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   Commonly used equipment for resistance training include free weights—including dumbbells, barbells, and kettlebells—weight machines, and resistance bands. [43] Resistance can also be generated by inertia in flywheel training instead of by gravity from weights, facilitating variable resistance throughout the range of motion and eccentric ...

7. 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 ...