Gym Flooring

ctionary defines hoist as the act of lifting with the assistance of a mechanical device. In the case of ‘Hoist’ fitness machines, the fitness of individuals is improved through through lifting their body weight. So the name is more than a clever marketing ploy.

Hoist Range of Products

As a manufacturer of fitness equipment for 30 years, it is to be expected that the product range will be on the diverse, if not impressive, side. Fitness enthusiasts have many choices in fitness apparatus for strength training in all its aspects – weight, resistance, isometric and integrated.  Read more...

Lifting weights is an exercise as old as civilization. The tale of Milo of Croton from Ancient Greece exemplifies this, as he was supposed to have lifted a young calf every day, until many months later he was able to lift the now fully grown bull. The progressive nature of strength development was thus known, and, if not understood on a biological or physiological level, practiced extensively to produce athletes and circus strongmen throughout the ages. Today, however, most people in commercial gyms ignore the barbells except perhaps for the ever popular bench press. Is it that people have discovered something better, or should people return to using barbells?

In the 1970′s, a gentleman called Arthur Jones invented a kind of exercise machine that revolutionized the fitness world. It was based on the principle of ‘variable resistance’, and allowed people to isometrically train each muscle by a resisting static force. A machine was invented for each muscle or limb, and the trainee could change the amount of resistance by selecting the amount of weight to be used. While exercise machines had been around forever, Arthur Jones revolutionized the fitness world by creating a circuit of them, and claiming that by moving from machine to machine and exercising each muscle, you could gain incredible strength through precision and targeting.  Read more...

Are you tired of waiting for your favorite leg press machine? Tired of driving twenty minutes each way to work out? The hassles of working out in a commercial gym may promot you to consider the benefits of working out at home. But have you stopped to count the costs and benefits of building your own home gym? There are plenty of both, so take a moment to consider the following before you start measuring your garage for your new power rack.

The most obvious benefit of having your own home gym is that big fat check that you would not be writing to somebody else each month. It may not seem like much, one check at a time, but over the course of a year, you are paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars for the privilege of sweating on somebody else’s floor. if you are hiring the services of a personal trainer at the gym, you are paying not only for the trainer’s time but also an overhead fee that goes to the gym. By working out at home, you will save the cost of the gym membership, and if you do hire a personal trainer, you can cut out the middleman fees and just pay the trainer directly.  Read more...