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Author: Phil Franklin | Total views: 4 Comments: 0
Word Count: 591 Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:18 AM

Want To Add More Variety To Your Workouts?

Boredom. It may not be the number one reason why people stop working out, but it is a big contributor to the list of reasons why people stop exercising. This is true whether they primarily do cardio workouts or if they typically lift free weights.

This is, in part, why health and fitness centers have a wide variety of cardio and weightlifting equipment available. It is also a part of the reason why many people choose to work out with personal trainers.

However, not everyone belongs to and works out at a health and fitness center. Not everyone can afford to work out with a personal trainer. Many people, in fact, choose to work out at home with limited weightlifting equipment.

That does not mean that they do not also want to add more variety to their workouts. They may make changes to the number or repetitions that they do and, on some days, perform more repetitions with a lighter weight and, on other, perform fewer repetitions with heavier weight plates.

Or they may include more variety in their workouts in other ways. They may perform a different series of warm up and cool down exercises. They may work different muscles groups or choose a different exercise to strengthen their pectoral muscles or triceps in a slightly different way.

But regardless of which methods they use to add variety to their workouts, one thing remains the same. In order to effectively add variety to their weightlifting workouts, they need to have a variety of weights and weight plates available to them.

This may be as simple as having five pound, ten pound and twenty-five pound weight plates available. For those who hold a weight plate while doing crunches or other abdominal exercises, it may mean having one or more solid rubber or rubber encased weight plates that will be easier to keep hold of.

For others, they see additional advantages to solid rubber weight plates. They know that they can use solid rubber weight plates to add color to their workout equipment.

That is not to say that people choose to add five pound green solid rubber weight plates to their fitness equipment simply because green matches their home weight room. However, if they know that they frequently change between two weights – such as ten pound weight plates and twenty-five pound weight plates – purchasing these plates in their colored, solid rubber form can help to make them easier to identify and thus easier to change over quickly.

But the ability to add color is not the only advantage to using solid rubber weight plates. In addition, solid rubber bumper plates are preferred by many home exercisers because the weight plates will not crack or peel over time. Not only that, but also they reduce noise and lower the risk of damage to walls and floors as well as other weightlifting equipment.

o one doubts the benefits of weightlifting and exercising. However, without adding variety to one's workouts it is not difficult to lose interest in fitness.

With colorful solid rubber weight plates, you can brighten up your exercise room while you are working out. With solid rubber and rubber-encased weights, you can worry less about your home exercise room. And, with a variety of weight plates available to you, you can be sure that you always have the right weight for the weightlifting exercises that you do.

About the Author

Phil Frank is a veteran of the rubber industry, with a long history of sport innovation. Phil is the CEO of www.fitnessrubber.com, the webs leading manufacturer and distributer of specialty rubber products for the fitness industry.
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