CrossFit Box Equipment Buying Guide: What to Order for an Affiliate Gym Equipping a CrossFit box is not the same job as filling a commercial gym. You are not buying rows of treadmills and selectorized machines. You are buying open floor space, a rig, barbells, plates and a long list of small items that members […]
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24-Hour Gym Equipment Buying Guide: What to Stock for an Unmanned Gym A 24-hour gym lives or dies on equipment that keeps working when nobody is there to fix it. No front desk, no attendant, no one to spot a slipping belt at 2 a.m. That one fact should drive every purchasing decision on the […]
Hip Thrust Machine Buying Guide: What to Order for a Commercial Gym A hip thrust machine turns glute training from a floor exercise into a station. Where members once stacked a barbell across their hips with a pad and hoped for the best, a dedicated machine fixes the load path, removes the balance problem, and […]
Seated Row Machine Buying Guide: What to Order for a Commercial Gym A seated row machine is one of the few pieces that works for almost everyone who walks into a gym. Beginners use it to build back strength safely, regulars use it to balance all the pressing they do, and personal trainers use it […]
Preacher Curl Machine Buying Guide: What to Order for a Commercial Gym A preacher curl machine earns its floor space if your members actually train arms. It puts them in a fixed position, takes the lower back and shoulder swing out of the movement, and lets a beginner feel the biceps working on the first […]
School and University Fitness Center Equipment Buying Guide Buying gym equipment for a school or university is not the same job as fitting out a commercial gym. The budget cycle is annual, the purchase usually goes through a bid or tender, the users range from a 14-year-old beginner to a varsity athlete, and nobody is […]
Gym Rubber Flooring Buying Guide: Thickness, Tiles vs Rolls, and What to Order Gym rubber flooring is the one purchase in a fit-out that is genuinely painful to get wrong. You can swap a treadmill in an afternoon. You cannot rip up 5,000 sq ft of glued-down rubber without closing the floor and spending money […]
Functional Trainer Buying Guide: How to Choose One for a Commercial Gym A functional trainer is two adjustable cable pulleys on one frame, and it is the single most requested piece of strength equipment in a small gym. Members use it for everything from cable flies to lat pulldowns to face pulls, which is exactly […]