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The Benefits of Refurbished Equipment

Are you planning to set up a home gym? Does your homeowner’s community center want to add a self-service fitness center? Our local clubhouse (provided by the HoA) is considering outfitting a small, do it yourself gym area that only the homeowners can use for a nominal fee. I sent in a few suggestions and I wanted to share a few with you. You can save yourself a lot of money by keeping an eye out for refurbished equipment.

Why Refurbished Equipment?

Commercial equipment is far sturdier than your standard home gym equipment. Why? Commercial equipment is designed to be used by dozens of people every day, 24 hours a day. Commercial quality equipment is durable, longer lasting and may ultimately prove to be a better investment if it is refurbished. Refurbished commercial equipment takes used commercial pieces (not just cardio equipment, but also weight training equipment and more) and freshen it up.

Global Fitness, Fitness Equipment Depot, Kacor Inc and more are companies that specialize in picking up old equipment from health clubs (these could be machines that are just out of date or being replaced by newer models) and refurbish that equipment for resale.

What Does It Mean to Refurbish?

When a piece of equipment is refurbished, the company takes that piece of equipment apart and puts it back together while cleaning it, testing it and tuning it up. The pieces are each tested to ensure performance and to make it as close to ‘new’ as they can.

Now, when investigating refurbished equipment, you should keep in mind that there are different levels to refurbishing: remanufactured, serviced and refurbished. The first provides the longest warranty because it’s likely had the most warn parts replaced, the second has the shortest warranty because it was just tuned while the last splits the difference.

Refurbished equipment might just be the best investment for non-commercial fitness ventures whether it’s you and your neighbor outfitting a garage gym or the local homeowner’s community center building one as well. Consider it in the frugal option category.

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About Heather Long

Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago. They have a beautiful daughter who just turned five years old. She is learning to read and preparing for kindergarten in the fall. An author of more than 300 articles and 500+ web copy pieces, Heather has also written three books as a ghostwriter. Empty Canoe Publishing accepted a novel of her own. A former horse breeder, Heather used to get most of her exercise outside. In late 2004, early 2005 Heather started studying fitness full time in order to get herself back into shape. Heather worked with a personal trainer for six months and works out regularly. She enjoys shaking up her routine and checking out new exercises. Her current favorites are the treadmill (she walks up to 90 minutes daily) and doing yoga for stretching. She also performs strength training two to three times a week. Her goals include performing in a marathon such as the Walk for Breast Cancer Awareness or Team in Training for Lymphoma research. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience through the fitness and marriage blogs.