Looking for an ideal holiday gift? Try the gift of health and fitness!

From a home gym that lets users perform hundreds of exercises, to a treadmill with a built-in TV screen, look to Life Fitness

SCHILLER PARK, Ill. – Nov. 11, 2004 – What better gift can you give to the special people in your life than the gift of health and fitness?

“’Exercising more’ and ‘getting in better shape’ are two of the most notable New Year’s resolutions each year,” explains Kevin Grodzki, president of exercise equipment manufacturer Life Fitness. “So giving the gift of health and fitness will make it easier for your loved ones to reach their goals and improve their quality of life – from increasing their resistance to disease to helping them sleep better. And regardless of age or fitness level, it’s never too late to get in better shape.”

Fitness gift ideas

Sales of home exercise equipment are on the rise. According to SGMA International, a sporting goods trade association, retail sales of home fitness equipment are expected to reach $5.8 billion in 2005, up from $5.5 billion in 2003, so home exercise equipment could be on many gift lists this holiday season. For a complete line of home fitness equipment for exercisers of all levels and in a wide range of prices, look to Life Fitness (www.lifefitness.com), the No. 1 manufacturer of premium cardiovascular and strength-training fitness equipment for health club and home use. The company’s products include treadmills, Lifecycle exercise bikes, total-body elliptical cross-trainers, stairclimbers and strength-training machines. Three of the company’s newest units – the G5 Cable Motion Gym System, and T9i and T9e treadmills – offer features and functions that would make great gifts for you or your family.

G5 Cable Motion Gym – hundreds of exercises and free weight flexibility

The G5 Cable Motion Gym system is a home gym that lets users do hundreds of different exercises. Unique to the G5 is the ability for users to move the bench out of the way and perform exercises with the gym that are either self-stabilized or done with other core stabilization apparatus, such as a stability ball. This also means one person could be doing dumbbell exercises using the bench, while another person could be performing exercises with the rest of the gym – a nice way for couples to work out. The G5 also has Cable Motion technology for unrestricted, user-defined paths of motion, like free weights. This allows users to perform “functional strength training” or exercises to improve movements specific to sports or everyday activities, like hoisting luggage into an overhead bin or swinging a golf club or tennis racket.

T9i and T9e treadmills give health club-quality workouts

Home versions of Life Fitness’ popular health club models, the new T9i and T9e are top-of-the-line treadmills that provide health club-quality workouts at home. An industry first, the T9e is an entertainment-ready home model featuring an integrated LCD touch-screen console that lets exercisers select and watch live TV programming while they work out. This feature could put the T9e on many gift lists and liberate the family room TV forever. Like all Life Fitness treadmills, both treadmills feature the patented FlexDeck shock absorption system, which reduces impact to lower-body muscles, joints and bones by nearly 30 percent compared to non-cushioned surfaces, resulting in a more comfortable workout. In addition, the treadmills include digital heart rate monitoring with Lifepulse heart rate monitoring sensors in the handlebars, Polar telemetry heart rate monitoring (chest strap is included), a 4.0 HP AC motor system with lifetime warranty and 13 personalized and customized workout programs.

About Life Fitness

Life Fitness, a division of Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC), is the global leader in designing and manufacturing a full line of reliable, high-quality fitness equipment for commercial and consumer use. It is the largest commercial fitness equipment provider in the world and the only fitness equipment manufacturer that has been providing premium equipment for more than 27 years. Life Fitness’ cardiovascular and strength-training products, including the renowned Lifecycle exercise bike, are used in

health, fitness and wellness facilities, as well as in homes, worldwide. The company is headquartered near Chicago and distributes its equipment in more than 120 countries.

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Life Fitness, Lifecycle, Cable Motion, FlexDeck and Lifepulse are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Brunswick Corporation

 

Life Fitness, 5100 River Road, Schiller Park, Ill. 60176. Phone: 847.288.3300, www.lifefitness.com

 

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