Bodytone gym equipment: choosing the right range for your facility
Le choix d'une gamme Bodytone dépend du modèle d'exploitation du lieu, pas seulement du budget. Un club indépendant privilégie la rotation élevée et la maintenance simple, un hôtel le silence et l'encombrement réduit, un EHPAD ou une collectivité la robustesse et la lisibilité des réglages. Light In Fitness distribue le catalogue Bodytone et oriente le choix gamme par gamme selon l'établissement.
Bodytone gym equipment: choosing the right range for your facility
Choosing Bodytone equipment is a question of operating model rather than of catalogue level. An independent club needs high turnover and simple maintenance; a hotel needs quiet machines, a small footprint and immediate usability by a guest who will never be shown how they work; a care or public facility needs robust, legible equipment that reassures a very mixed user group. Light In Fitness is a French distributor of Bodytone and builds complete equipment schedules around the brand, from cardio to functional training.
Which orientation for which facility
| Project | Bodytone orientation to favour | Operating objective |
|---|---|---|
| Independent fitness club | EVO cardio, selectorised strength, free weights and a functional zone | Build a complete, extendable and maintainable equipment park |
| Hotel or premium residence | Compact machines, quiet cardio, intuitive strength stations | Deliver a simple, high quality experience to transient guests |
| Box or training studio | SRX, cages, rowers, bikes and functional equipment | Support intensity, circuits and small group formats |
| Care home, health or public facility | Comfort bikes, moderate loads, accessible adjustment | Make use safe and supervision straightforward |
| Corporate wellbeing room | Compact cardio, multi station or selectorised strength | Unsupervised use by staff with mixed experience |
The orientation matters more than the badge on the frame. A hotel that buys the equipment schedule of an independent club ends up with machines nobody uses and a noise complaint from the room above; a club that buys the hotel schedule queues at every station by month three.
The selectorised strength line
The FH series covers the movement patterns a general membership needs, and it is the backbone of most Bodytone strength floors we specify. Each station carries a printed exercise placard, which reduces the coaching load in an unsupervised room.
| Movement pattern | Bodytone references |
|---|---|
| Horizontal press | FH01 chest press |
| Vertical pull | FH14 lat pulldown, FH13 assisted pull up and dip |
| Horizontal pull | FH15 seated row |
| Vertical press | FH20 shoulder press |
| Shoulder and chest isolation | FH23 pec fly and rear deltoid, FH24 lateral raise |
| Arms | FH30 biceps curl, FH32 seated dip |
| Trunk | FH40 abdominal crunch and back extension |
| Knee dominant lower body | FH59 leg press, FH52 leg extension |
| Hip and hamstring | FH53 seated leg curl, FH55 prone leg curl, FH58 multi hip |
| Hip abduction and adduction | FH56 inner and outer thigh |
| Free weight benches | FBC08 Olympic bench press, FBC09 Olympic shoulder press |
A general fitness floor opens with the first eight patterns and adds the isolation stations as the membership grows. Buying the full list on day one is rarely the best use of an opening budget, and it fills floor space that would be better held in reserve.
Cardio across the range
The cardio line runs from indoor cycling bikes such as the MT6, at 880 euros excluding VAT, through treadmills, cross trainers and rowers, to stair climbers such as the Nexion C60L and C80L. Two points guide the selection. Self powered machines can be placed anywhere on the floor, while treadmills and stair climbers need a dedicated mains circuit, so the electrical layout is decided at the same time as the equipment layout. And a stair climber is a premium purchase that only earns its place where the membership already fills the treadmills at peak.
Equipping a complete facility with one brand
Bodytone allows a full park to be assembled from a single manufacturer: cardio, selectorised strength, free weights, functional training and Pilates, at the range level and within the floor area you have. The practical advantage is consistency, in appearance, in adjustment logic and in parts. The counterpoint is that no single manufacturer is the best answer in every family at once, so on some projects we mix Bodytone with other brands for barbells, rigs or flooring. Both routes are quoted in one document.
What to send before asking for a quotation
Five inputs are enough to match a project to the catalogue: the floor area, the expected attendance at peak, the type of user the facility serves, access constraints for delivery, and the level of service you want to offer. With those we return a station by station schedule, a layout and a budget within 24 working hours. Add the storey and the ceiling height if the room is not on the ground floor, because both change the flooring specification and the choice of structures.
Why buy through a French distributor
A local B2B contact shortens the parts of the project that usually go wrong: scoping the brief, coordinating delivery and access, arranging installation, and getting spare parts that match the machines actually installed rather than a generic catalogue entry. Stock references ship in five to ten working days, warranty runs from two to five years depending on the range, and after sales support continues against your equipment list. Delivery covers France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg, with export priced per project.
Frequently asked questions
Can a complete facility be equipped with Bodytone alone?
Yes. The brand covers cardio, selectorised strength, free weights, functional training and Pilates, so a full park can be assembled at the range level and within the floor area available. On some projects we still mix brands for barbells, rigs or flooring, and quote everything together.
Which Bodytone equipment suits a hotel gym?
Compact machines, quiet cardio and intuitive strength stations. A guest arrives without an induction and trains once or twice, so immediate usability and low noise transmission matter far more than the depth of the range.
Where do I start on a strength floor?
With the major movement patterns: chest press, lat pulldown, seated row, shoulder press, leg press, leg extension, leg curl and a trunk station. Add the isolation machines as attendance grows rather than filling the floor at opening.
Why buy through a French distributor rather than direct?
Because the project is more than the product. Scoping, delivery access, installation, after sales and parts that match your installed base are handled by one contact, in your own time zone, with documents that suit your compliance file.
Get your Bodytone schedule
Send the floor area, the expected attendance and the type of facility, and we will return a station by station schedule with a budget within 24 working hours. See the wider ranges on the strength training machines and professional cardio machines pages, view all the manufacturers we work with on the brands page, or use the request a quote form.