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Cutting or Sculpting: How to Choose a Training Goal

Cutting or Sculpting: How to Choose a Training Goal
Cutting and sculpting are not the same thing. How the two goals differ in diet, load and intensity, and what each one demands from the equipment on a gym floor.
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French Touch Diving: Dive Club in Bohol, Philippines

French Touch Diving: Dive Club in Bohol, Philippines
French Touch Diving is a French-run dive centre on Panglao in Bohol: certification courses, the Bohol marine sanctuary, conservation work and life above the surface.
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Professional Connected Cross Trainer: What It Brings to a Gym

Professional Connected Cross Trainer: What It Brings to a Gym
What a professional connected cross trainer really delivers for gyms, hotels and public facilities: low-impact cardio, session data and how to specify one.
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Which Is Better: Cardio or Strength Training?

Which Is Better: Cardio or Strength Training?
Cardio develops endurance, strength training develops muscular force. The two support each other, and the balance between them decides how a training floor is laid out and equipped.
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Professional Leg Press Machine: Everything You Need to Know

Professional Leg Press Machine: Everything You Need to Know
What a professional leg press trains, how to set it up correctly, the results to expect and what to check before specifying one for your floor.
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Bodytone Professional Leg Press: The Complete Buyer Guide

Bodytone Professional Leg Press: The Complete Buyer Guide
The leg press earns its floor space in almost every kind of facility. This guide looks at the Bodytone professional leg press from a buyer point of view: what the machine is, how it is built, what it delivers on a working floor, how to have it used correctly and how to choose between selectorised and plate-loaded models.
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Why Invest in Professional Strength Equipment?

Why Invest in Professional Strength Equipment?
Six arguments that justify professional strength equipment for a commercial facility, and what a realistic investment budget actually covers.
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Women's Bodybuilding: Equipping a Gym for Female Strength Athletes

Women's Bodybuilding: Equipping a Gym for Female Strength Athletes
Competition categories, training demands and the four specification points that decide whether a strength floor works for female members and competitors.
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How to Order Your Strength Training Equipment from Light In Fitness

How to Order Your Strength Training Equipment from Light In Fitness
Light In Fitness supplies strength and cardio equipment to professional operators. How to define the brief, specify to the right class of use, choose between ranges and obtain a costed configuration for your facility.
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How to Buy Professional Strength Equipment from Light In Fitness

How to Buy Professional Strength Equipment from Light In Fitness
Buying strength equipment for a facility is a specification exercise, not a shopping trip. This page explains how a project runs at Light In Fitness: the brief, the ranges and brands available, the applicable standards, the layout work, and the path from quotation to installation.
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Professional Cross Trainers: Why Buy From Light In Fitness

Professional Cross Trainers: Why Buy From Light In Fitness
Professional cross trainers for gyms, hotels, clubs and public facilities: the selection criteria that decide a machine and a supplier.
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Professional Recumbent Bikes: How to Choose for Your Gym

Professional Recumbent Bikes: How to Choose for Your Gym
What separates a club-grade recumbent bike from the rest, how to specify one for a gym, hotel or rehabilitation centre, and the professional models Light In Fitness distributes.
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Professional Upright Bike: Buying Guide for Gyms and Hotels

Professional Upright Bike: Buying Guide for Gyms and Hotels
Professional upright bikes for gyms, hotels and public facilities: eight models compared, console and power supply criteria, prices excluding VAT.
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Which Biceps Machine Should You Choose for a Professional Gym?

Which Biceps Machine Should You Choose for a Professional Gym?
Free weights, preacher benches, cable stations or selectorised curl machines: how a facility manager should specify the biceps equipment of a commercial gym.
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Which Strength Machine Is the Most Complete? The Multi-Station Answer

Which Strength Machine Is the Most Complete? The Multi-Station Answer
If a facility can only install one strength machine, the multi-station is usually the answer. What it covers, where its limits are, and how to specify one for professional use.
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Cross-Training Cage: Technical Specifications Explained

Cross-Training Cage: Technical Specifications Explained
Frame section, safety arms, J-cups, pull-up bars, attachment zones and anchoring: the specifications that decide whether a cross-training cage suits a commercial box.
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How to Buy Professional Strength Equipment from Light In Fitness

How to Buy Professional Strength Equipment from Light In Fitness
Buying strength equipment for a commercial site is a specification exercise, not a shopping one. How the purchase works, from the first brief to commissioning.
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The converging incline chest press: what it adds to a commercial strength floor

The converging incline chest press: what it adds to a commercial strength floor
A converging arm path plus an inclined seat covers the upper chest pressing pattern with a supported spine. What the station delivers and how to specify it.
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Behind-the-Neck Press on a Guided Bar: The Complete Gym Guide

Behind-the-Neck Press on a Guided Bar: The Complete Gym Guide
A complete guide to the behind-the-neck press on a Smith machine or multi-station: what it trains, correct execution, the mistakes instructors see most often, a sample progression and the commercial equipment it needs.
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Mastering the Upright Row on a Guided Bar: Complete Guide

Mastering the Upright Row on a Guided Bar: Complete Guide
A complete coaching guide to the upright row on a guided bar: the muscles it actually works, correct grip and setup, sets and repetitions, variations, the mistakes that cause shoulder complaints, and what it means when specifying a Smith machine.
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Machine Lateral Raise: Technique, Programming and Equipment

Machine Lateral Raise: Technique, Programming and Equipment
What the machine lateral raise actually trains, how to coach it correctly, two sample sessions, and what to look at before adding a lateral raise station to a commercial strength floor.
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How to Perform Well in Strength Training

How to Perform Well in Strength Training
The principles that decide progress in strength training, from goal setting to progressive loading and recovery, and what each one demands from the equipment on the gym floor.
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Mastering the Cross Trainer: Get More from Every Cardio Session

Mastering the Cross Trainer: Get More from Every Cardio Session
Posture, resistance, interval work and progress tracking on a cross trainer, plus the stride length, drive position and console points operators should check.
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What Is the Best Time of Day to Do Cardio?

What Is the Best Time of Day to Do Cardio?
Fasted cardio burns more fat during the session but not more fat overall. What the intervention studies show about timing, appetite and athletes, and what it means for sizing a cardio zone.
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