Exercise equipment is a depreciating as well as expensive equipment. Hence, exercise equipment leasing is regarded as one of the best options for those who want to set a home gym or commercial gym, but cannot afford the high cost of exercise equipments. With this type of leasing, the user is not stuck with old or obsolete equipments. Leasing allows easy access to specialized as well as sophisticated technology without any significant cash outlay. It also offers flexibility to upgrade facilities, apart from benefits like 100% financing and cash flow enhancement. The other benefit of exercise equipment leasing is tax benefits.

A variety of lease programs are available for exercise equipments, like fair market value leases, one dollar buy out, and 10% contract. Fair market value provides three options for the buyers at the end of the lease – return the equipment, renew the lease contract, or buy equipment for the fair market value. A scheme in which users are given the option to purchase the equipment at the end of the lease is “one-dollar buy-out”. However, in this case, monthly payments are higher than that of the FMV. When 10% contract is chosen, users can purchase the equipment for 10% of its original cost.

Several terms can be chosen for leasing exercise equipment, such as 24-, 36-, 48- or 60-month term agreements. However, it is always advisable to lease exercise equipment of top brand names like Cybex, LifeFitness, Nautilus, Precor, Stairmaster, Star Trac, and Schwinn.

Some of the leading names in leasing service are Dynabody Fitness Equipment, Body Quest Exercise Equipment Store, Bodytech Fitness Equipment, Hoist Fitness, Exercare, and USA Fitness Direct. They make available all types of exercise equipments including free weights, exercise benches, aerobics equipments, universal gyms, mats and specialized training equipment. Most of them offer leasing services for both commercial as well as home purposes. There are also companies offering new and used commercial and home gym equipment.

Golf exercise equipment, if chosen correctly can have an immediate and dramatic impact on your golf game.

You’d be surprised to find out it is not expensive; and is not necessarily in a gym or health club either.

Yes…there are golf “machines” for stretching and strength building that are well over one thousand dollars, but are definitely not needed.

When you think of the golf swing, it’s a dynamic movement completed in space with your ‘whole’ body. So any kind of training or golf exercise equipment should be able to accommodate this.

For starters, a pair of hand weights (dumbbells) are inexpensive, portable and can be used for dozens of golf-specific exercises. They don’t have to be heavy or cumbersome. You’d be surprised what a 5 to 8 pound pair of dumbbells can accomplish with the right golf exercises.

Next on the list of golf exercise equipment is tubing. You may have seen it in articles, on the television or in a catalog. Exercise tubing is extremely portable, very inexpensive and also can be used to mimic many phases of the golf swing, but with resistance.

I personally use exercise tubing in all of my programs, with all of my personal clients and in my own golf workouts. It can give you one heck of a workout if you have the right resistance. These bands come in varying tensions from light to extra heavy.

Another piece of golf exercise equipment is a stability ball. It’s the big ‘beach ball’ looking thing that is used in offices to sit on, in many exercise classes, at most health clubs and all of the physical therapy clinics.

Why? Because again it’s portable, inexpensive and very versatile. Doing golf exercises on the ball incorporate core stabilization, balance and stability. All important factors in a mechanically sound golf swing.

And the last piece of golf exercise equipment is the weighted medicine ball. You might remember them from several decades ago as the big leather balls that the old fitness fanatics used to improve strength and power.

Well now they’re back! They are used in every sport-specific strength program in existence. You can do so many sport-like movements with them and they weigh as much as 20 pounds, so you can imagine the benefit from a power standpoint.

I have a couple of my ‘bread-and-butter’ exercises I use in all my programs that incorporate the weighted medicine ball and they are very effective.

So there you have it! Three or four pieces of inexpensive and portable golf exercise equipment.

About The Author: Mike Pedersen is an Internationally recognized golf fitness trainer and author. He is Golf Magazines golf performance expert, and founder of several cutting-edge online golf performance membership sites. Take a look at his best selling Golf Fitness System at his golf exercise training site – PerformBetterGolf.com.

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If joining a fitness center is not for you, and you’re not the outdoors-y type, home exercise equipment is a smart choice for staying fit. Before you buy, you should do your homework in order to prevent your new exercise machine from becoming an over-sized clothes hanger.

Before you spend your money, first consider your current exercise routine (if any). Variety in an exercise plan tends to keep you from getting bored and provides a good route to overall fitness. With this in mind, consider a fitness machine that provides a different type of benefit to what you are already doing or plan to do.

For example, if you walk 3 times a week, you may want to consider home exercise equipment that offers resistance training, such as a home gym.

Be wary of “fad” equipment and always check for a warranty. Anything that sounds too good to be true, usually is. You want to try to find home exercise equipment that works your whole body or major portions of your body for the best results.

Decide where your home exercise equipment will be located in your home and take measurements. You want to be sure the machine you are considering will fit the space you have available.

Think also about your budget. Home exercise equipment prices can range from as low as $100 to into the thousands. The high end models are terrific and offer a lot of bells and whistles, but you can generally get a good workout and decent quality by spending a few to several hundred dollars.

A good strategy is to spend most of your budget on one quality piece, such as an exercise bike or home gym, then supplement it with inexpensive equipment such as dumbbells or aerobics videos.

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