Vibration plates are one of those pieces of home gym equipment that people either swear by or roll their eyes at, and I understand both camps. So when I got my hands on the MERACH V33 Pro Vibration Plate Exercise Machine, I wanted to answer one question honestly: is this worth your money, or is…
It is hard not to weigh yourself every day when you are trying to lose weight. I will admit it — I weigh myself twice. Once before bed, once when I wake up, just to see how my body reacted to whatever I did the day before. And every fitness person on the internet will…
The Unive Fitness F4 packs a Smith machine, power cage, squat rack, cable crossover and pull-up station into one footprint. Here is my honest garage-gym review.
I’ve gone through a lot of shaker bottles. Plastic ones that cracked, metal ones that held onto the smell of last week’s protein no matter how many times I washed them, and a whole pile of the little wire-ball ones that never fully broke up a scoop of anything. So when Voltrx dropped a limited…
I have put a lot of squat racks in my garage over the years, and most of them have one thing in common: the moment you actually load them up and start moving real weight, they start talking back. A little shimmy on the rack pull. A creak when you re-rack a heavy squat. That…
As a certified personal trainer, I’m no stranger to home gym equipment — so when Ativafit reached out and said they wanted to send me their folding exercise bike so I could show you how it works and whether it deserves a spot in your home gym, I said absolutely. I’ve spent time riding it,…
I’ve been wanting an elliptical in my home gym for a long time, but I didn’t want one of those flimsy, standard home-gym-quality machines — I wanted something closer to what you’d find in a commercial gym. So when MERACH reached out and asked if they could send me their E27 self-powered elliptical to review,…
Indoor cycling has exploded, and you no longer need to drop a paycheck on a name-brand connected bike to get a sweaty, effective ride at home. Budget brands have flooded Amazon, and pooboo is one of the names you will run into again and again. So I grabbed the pooboo Stationary Exercise Bike and asked…
Not everybody wants—or can handle—a high-impact cardio machine in their living room. If your knees, hips, or lower back have started filing complaints, a seated cross-trainer can be a game changer. That is exactly the category the XVGVSV Recumbent Elliptical Bike plays in. It is a two-in-one machine that blends the gentle, supported position of…
If you have spent any time shopping for a home rower, you already know how crowded that corner of Amazon has become. MERACH is one of the brands that keeps popping up, and they make a whole lineup that can be tough to tell apart at a glance. So I pulled three of their most…
