How do home gyms compare to free weights and/or elastic tubing and bands?
Free weights and elastic bands are great strength training options. Free weights facilitate virtually any exercise, but to increase your resistance, you must have a number of different sizes of dumbbells or barbells and plates, along with a bench and potentially a rack for safety when lifting heavy. Elastic tubing is inexpensive and portable, and also facilitates a multitude of exercises, but it can limit your progression and results unless you have a variety of resistance levels available. And ultimately, as you get stronger, the bands may not offer enough challenge in some exercises. As well, both of these options require strict knowledge of proper exercise movement in order to maximize results without subjecting yourself to possible injury. Home gyms like those from Torque are a terrific choice, because they enable you to perform virtually unlimited exercises using a variety of weight and moving in traditional fixed patterns and/or user-defined paths in an easy to understand and use
