A discounted home exercise machine is a great way to improve your fitness and lose weight without having to subject yourself to the weather or pay out for expensive gym memberships on long contracts. Often you will be able to find a perfectly adequate piece of home exercise equipment that will fold away, is inexpensive and will, with a disciplined regime of use allow you to successfully improve your fitness and lose weight.
To get the best exercise you really want a machine that will give you a low impact cardio workout. Low impact refers to the stress put on joints and cardio refers to the exercise your heart will receive. If you can get your heart rate up to 100 beats per minute for a 30 minute duration three times a week you will loose weight, tone up and improve the strength and fitness of your heart. There are a number of different machines in this category suitable for home use. You need to decide what level of fitness and toning you are after.
A fold able upright exercise bike is usually one of the cheapest options. It will give you a low impact exercise which will improve the tone of legs, hips and gluts whilst improving the heart and shedding weight in a controlled manner. Foldable exercise bikes are often available from places like Amazon for less than $100.
A basic hydraulic rower such as the Stamina Body Trac Glider 1050 Rowing Machine will come in at about $100 and will offer a fuller workout to the exercise you could get from an exercise bike. Rowers will hit legs, abs, hips, gluts, back and arms all with low impact but with great cardio exercise. This rower can also be folded for storage.
If you have a little more to spend, or do not fancy rowing or cycling you could opt for either a basic motorised incline treadmill or an elliptical cross trainer. The cross trainer will offer a fuller body workout and is low impact whereas a treadmill is higher impact but both will help loose weight and improve cardio fitness. These machine usually start at over $100 and can rise to thousands of dollars, but you could get a basic elliptical such as the stamina inmotion e1000 for $100 although this will only exercise the lower body and heart.
Whichever form of exercise you favour it should be possible to get a fitness machine for under $200 that will help you get fit, lose weight and will be there for you time and time again when you need to brush up on your fitness.
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