Inexpensive home gyms can be more effective than some infomercial fitness products. You don’t need any fancy equipment or a full set of weights. If you want to save time and money on a home gym, fitness expert and personal trainer Laura McDonald shows us how. In this video, she heads over to Target and buys a everything she needs for a [tags]inexpensive-home-gym[/tags]grand total of $100! That’s less a full year’s membership at a gym! This home gym doesn’t focus on the cardio aspect. It’s obviously more for firming up.

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With spring already here, we’ll all be clamoring to get in shape. Do we really need to buy all those As Seen on TV fitness gadgets? I should hope not! I almost wrote em all off. Anyways, on the Today Show they had a pretty good show with Certified Fitness Trainer Andrea Metcalf. She took an honest look at four, As Seen on TV exercise products. They include Tony Little’s Rock and Roll Stepper, Perfect Pushup, Rock and Go Exerciser and the Iron Gym.

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This Iron Gym Review basically summarizes what’s good and not so good as well as some door dimensions that you’ll need to have the bar fit properly in your doorway. At first glance, I like the idea that you don’t have to screw the bar into the doorway or ruin your door. Here’s a pretty good video explaining how to assemble it and showing the various workouts you can do. Including pull ups, push ups, knee raises, dips, body weight rows and crunches. The first part of the video is the Iron Gym. In the second half of the video, that’s not the Iron Gym! I did a double take there…when I watched it the first time. I’m honest not sure what the second workout device is.

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Here’s a Perfect Push Up review on video! There are several types of push up fitness equipment on the market but these two products, Perfect Push Up and Pushup Pro were what you were asking about the most. I found a great video comparing the two products. Have a look at Dan’s video. He does a great job of comparing the two.

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