Friday, November 25, 2011

Powertec WB-ASR10 Workbench Accessory Rack

!±8± Powertec WB-ASR10 Workbench Accessory Rack

Brand : Powertec Fitness | Rate : | Price : $99.00
Post Date : Nov 25, 2011 23:35:16 | Usually ships in 2-3 business days

Store your workbench machine accessories and save valuable space while keeping your gym neat and organized.

  • Storage rack for Powertec Workbench multi-gym accessories
  • Stores up to 4 multi-gym accessories in single location
  • Saves valuable floor space while keeping gym organized
  • Precisely positioned for easy accessory in-and-out access
  • Measures 42 x 11 x 38 inches (W x H x D)

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Power Racks - Essential Home Gym Equipment

!±8± Power Racks - Essential Home Gym Equipment

A power rack is one of the most useful pieces of equipment for a home gym. If you have a good weight set and a good bench, the next thing you should consider is a good quality power rack. A power rack is a simple device that holds a barbell at any height you choose to start an exercise, and provides safety rails that catch the barbell at the end of the set. There is a link at the bottom of this article that will take you to some pictures of several different power racks.

The most important features of a power rack are safety and versatility. If you set it up properly, it enables you to perform many heavy exercises in relative safety. If you have ever bench pressed a heavy weight by yourself without a rack of some kind, you know what I mean! What do you do when you can't get that barbell off your chest? You either scream for help or shift the weight to one side and let it drop to the floor which not only can damage your equipment and the floor, but opens you up to the possibility of serious injury to your back, neck and shoulders. A properly used power rack prevents this by providing an adjustable height safety catch that allows you to simply lower the weight onto it and you can safely slide out from under the barbell with no risk or effort whatsoever!

Power racks are fully adjustable so you can set it up for safe military presses, bench presses (flat, incline or decline), squats, calf raises, shrugs and any other movement where the barbell does not go to the floor at the end of the set. Many racks also have a chin up bar, adjustable dip bars, and an optional lat pull down attachment. I highly recommend the lat pulley attachment on the power rack versus a separate machine. I have used both and the rack is much more stable than most stand-alone lat machines, and the space savings is considerable.

I believe the power rack to be essential for someone who works out alone in a home gym. If you have a good set of weights and a good quality bench and are serious about your weight lifting or bodybuilding program, get a power rack next!

I personally own and use a Body Solid (Powerline) Power rack with a plate loading lat attachment, but Powertec and Yukon make quality racks as well. I am partial to Body Solid because I like all my equipment to look the same, and I have been please with every piece of Body Solid equipment I have purchased over the years.


Power Racks - Essential Home Gym Equipment

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Strength Training Vs Bodybuilding - Whats the Difference?

!±8± Strength Training Vs Bodybuilding - Whats the Difference?

Most people who begin pumping iron have only a general goal when they start; to get into good physical condition. At some point their goal coalesces and they take the fork in the road that will lead to their destination; developing as a bodybuilder or as a power-lifter.

The tools they use are the same, in general, regardless of which fork they take. Bodybuilders and weightlifters used the same type of weights, the same racks, the same benches and often the same gyms. How they use that equipment is the difference that defines their goals.

A bodybuilder wants to develop his muscles in shape and size so that they display well. Their workouts consist of heavy weights lifted for multiple repetitions for a number of sets... and in an effort to tear down their muscle tissue so that the protein they ingest will rebuild it bigger, stronger and more shapely.

A weightlifter or power-lifter has a goal of lifting as much weight as they possibly can for one repetition. A weightlifter trains for two different lifts; the Snatch and the Clean-and-Jerk.

The power-lifter, on the other hand, trains for three different lifts; the Bench Press, the Squat and the Deadlift.

Both the bodybuilder and weightlifter will, in their training, work up to their maximum weight on each lift by progressively increasing the poundage on the barbell for each set they perform.

The goal of the bodybuilder is the maximum weight he can lift for six to ten repetitions. The weightlifter/power-lifter is looking for the most he can lift for one rep.

The bodybuilder will perform a workout routine that consists of many different exercises for each muscle group, often beginning with high-rep warm-ups and working up in weight until their max is reached.

They then move on to another exercise for the same muscle group, then another. They will complete three to five sets of three to five different exercises for each muscle.

A weightlifter will focus only on those exercises that work the muscles used in their two or three competitive lifts.

To balance their muscle exercise and development, they will perform some of the exercise the bodybuilder performs for arms, shoulders, chest and legs, but their goal is to strengthen them, not to build the muscles.

Many weightlifters and bodybuilders began their workout careers in one form of the training, only to switch to the other side of the gym as they developed more defined goals.

The great bodybuilder and trainer, Bill Pearl, said it best. Remarking about bodybuilding with weights, he said, "Lift like a bodybuilder, not a weightlifter." His point was that bodybuilders should be lifting heavy weights, but for multiple reps.

If they were most impressed by how much weight they could lift for one rep, they should be weightlifting or power- lifting instead.

All of us who pump iron as bodybuilders still like to see how much weight we can lift for one rep on occasion. The risk of injury that could curtail training is always a specter when you do something your body isn't used to, so always have a spotter when you are going for the max.

Weightlifters do develop their bodies, but not in the same shapely, formed manner as do the bodybuilders. Lifting weights, regardless of the reasons for doing so, will develop muscles. Developing shapely muscles does require specialized exercises.

While a weightlifter will do biceps curls to increase the strength of his arms, he will focus on heavy curls, not the shaping exercises of a preacher bench or sets of incline dumbbell curls.

Thin skin and vascularity is the goal of bodybuilders, while any vascularity that occurs in a weightlifter's muscles is a byproduct of their exercising, not the desired result.

The approach to their diets will differ between bodybuilders and weightlifters. Both want energy derived from carbohydrates, but the bodybuilder will load his system with proteins to gain size. The weightlifter will consume foods that will give him greater strength and endurance.


Strength Training Vs Bodybuilding - Whats the Difference?

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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Powertec Power Rack Workbench (Black)

!±8± Powertec Power Rack Workbench (Black)

Brand : PowerTec | Rate : | Price : $549.00
Post Date : Nov 13, 2011 21:32:18 | Usually ships in 2-3 business days


Rack holds up to 1,000 pounds; measures 50 x 84 x 51 inches (W x H x D)

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Monday, November 7, 2011

Half Rack -- Powertec (WB-HR10) from ironcompany.com

www.ironcompany.com You can customize your Workbench half Rack to include the Utility bench which provides lock and load access and the lat tower system providing numerous cable driven exercises. The Chin up bars come standard with the rack.

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