People embark on a fitness routine for many reasons, including increasing strength, losing weight, improving cardiovascular endurance, building muscle, improving energy levels, or keeping mentally healthy. Whatever your reasons, hiring a home treadmill, exercise bike, cross-trainer or rowing machine is a brilliant way to work towards achieving your fitness goals.
Home Exercise Equipment - Which piece should I hire?
But how do you know which piece of home exercise equipment is right for you? While we recommend speaking with one our friendly and experienced BeFit Hire agents who can provide expert advice based on your individual needs, we’ve also put together this handy summary to help you narrow down your choices.
The Treadmill is one of our most popular pieces of exercise equipment for hire, but did you know you can do much more than just walk or run with a treadmill?
It’s easy to achieve a total body workout at any time of the day or night by integrating exercises such as walking lunges, side shuffles, walking planks, reverse mountain climbers and crab walks into your treadmill routine.
If you’re considering hiring a treadmill, you can click here to read more about why treadmills are the highest selling piece of exercise equipment globally.
Stationary Exercise Bikes are also very popular and provide an excellent cardio workout to increase the flow of blood and oxygen through your entire body and strengthen your heart, lungs, and muscles.
An exercise bike is an excellent choice if you want to focus on workouts to improve your cardio fitness. Cardio workouts deliver many mental health and wellbeing benefits, including improving sleep, boosting your mood, and providing a much-needed escape from stress or anxiety.
You can click here to read more about the benefits of using an exercise bike.
Cross-Trainers, also known as elliptical machines, are another great option if you’re looking for a piece of equipment that provides a full-body workout. We know elliptical machines can be a bit intimidating if you have never used one before, but they are a great choice for beginners.
The pushing and pulling motion of a cross-trainer means you can control the pace and still achieve a full-body workout at a pace that best suits you. That means it’s perfect for absolute beginners as well as serious athletes and everyone in between.
If you’d like to know more about the benefits of Cross-trainers (elliptical machines), you can click here.
A Rowing Machine is an excellent option if you’re looking for a total body workout to increase your cardio fitness as well as your strength.
Every session on a rowing machine activates the major muscles in your legs, arms, back and core and is both high energy and low impact.
If you are recovering from an injury and want to avoid putting strain on your joints, or if you prefer shorter bursts of exercise, a rowing machine is an excellent choice.
If a rowing machine sounds like what you’re looking for, please click here to read our top ten reasons for hiring a rowing machine from BeFit Hire.
If you’re still not sure which piece of home exercise equipment is best suited to your needs, please contact the friendly BeFit Hire customer service agent in your region. They will be delighted to answer your questions and make a recommendation.
With more than 50 years as a family business, customer service is our focus and we invite you to get in touch to discuss your needs. Our equipment is available for purchase or hire and we have flexible payment options available.
Free delivery to most of metro Adelaide and Melbourne is available for most hire periods. Your safety and health is important to us, and your BeFit agent will test, clean and disinfect your hire equipment before delivery. Contactless delivery is available on request if you are in voluntary or medically directed self-isolation.
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