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Ironmaster: Guided Muscle

By Steve Holman
One way you can tell that home training is becoming more popular is by the growing number of quality in-house training units that are available. Soloflex, along with all of its imitators, is doing booming business, and every time you turn around theres some new or improved muscle machine claiming to be the latest high tech answer to your fitness needs.
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Building The Home Gym – a three-part series:

1. About Exercise and COPD Part 1
2. About Exercise and COPD Part 2- Considering a home gym?
3. Building The Home Gym – another three-part series:
   • About Exercise and COPD Part 3a – Building The Home Gym
   • About Exercise and COPD Part 3b – Building The Home Gym
   • About Exercise and COPD Part 3c – Building The Home Gym [You are here]

In my last installment in this series on building a home gym, I talked about some strategies you can use to outfit your own home with some professional grade strength tools that can help you reach you fitness goals. We discussed calesthenics, bands and cables, Ironmaster etc.
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Building The Home Gym – a three-part series:

1. About Exercise and COPD Part 1
2. About Exercise and COPD Part 2- Considering a home gym?
3. Building The Home Gym – another three-part series:
   • About Exercise and COPD Part 3a – Building The Home Gym
   • About Exercise and COPD Part 3b – Building The Home Gym [You are here]
   • About Exercise and COPD Part 3c – Building The Home Gym

OK, so where were we? Oh yes. That’s right. In part 3a we came to the realization that you have the money and the space for a gym that offers just about everything you need for the total strength training experience. You have a fitness level that is challenged by COPD (or maybe you don’t), but nevertheless you are fit enough that you can wrap your mind around the notion of traditional strength training as a vehicle to a healthier you. So, what do you buy? OK, I’ll answer that. But first, a story.
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Building The Home Gym – a three-part series:

1. About Exercise and COPD Part 1
2. About Exercise and COPD Part 2- Considering a home gym?
3. Building The Home Gym – another three-part series:
   • About Exercise and COPD Part 3a – Building The Home Gym [You are here]
   • About Exercise and COPD Part 3b – Building The Home Gym
   • About Exercise and COPD Part 3c – Building The Home Gym

In my first two columns on COPD, Part 1 and Part 2, my objective was to help you understand that the challenge of exercise is overwhelming for most people, and that for this reason most healthy people choose not to workout. This challenge is made all the more difficult when you add the conundrum of COPD to the mix.
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About Exercise and COPD – a three-part series:

1. About Exercise and COPD Part 1 [You are here]
2. About Exercise and COPD Part 2- Considering a home gym?
3. Building The Home Gym – another three-part series:
   • About Exercise and COPD Part 3a – Building The Home Gym
   • About Exercise and COPD Part 3b – Building The Home Gym
   • About Exercise and COPD Part 3c – Building The Home Gym

In the coming weeks I intend to add more columns on my personal experience in dealing with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). For now, I thought I would break ground by leading off with some thoughts about fitness in general, and exercise and COPD in particular.

No one can argue that exercise is beneficial to most everyone. Granted, there are some extenuating circumstances were exercise might be counter productive to someone’s health, but my pulmonologist believes that in most cases just about everyone can benefit from regular exercise. He feels exercise is of particular importance for people managing illnesses like Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, Chronic Bronchitis, etc. I could not agree more.
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