Free weight workouts
The advantages of free weight workouts
Free weight workouts offer lots of advantages for your health, strength and flexibility. By getting more muscle groups involved in each movement, weight training with free weights helps build strength and burn calories faster, prevent injury and improve balance, and make your workouts super-efficient.
While these are all great benefits, at PureGym, we think the #1 benefit of free weight workouts is how they make you feel. Exercise is one of the best ways to boost your mood, and we’ve built a gym that’s focused on helping you elevate your outlook as you exercise your body.
Feel good about your strength workouts at PureGym
Everything about PureGym is designed to lift your mood. Whether you come for free weight workouts, cardio exercise, or a core strength routine, you’ll end your workout feeling better about your body and yourself.
Positivity at PureGym starts with our enthusiastic staff. They’re a group of bona fide Mood-Lifters who will go out of their way to make you feel comfortable and energized as you work to become your healthiest self.
Our body-positive culture means that everybody feels welcome at PureGym. Our members are real people, not models, and we know that healthy comes in all shapes and sizes. We are proud to challenge norms in the fitness industry and to celebrate every unique body.
Our gyms are designed to be mood-lifting spaces, too. We’ve covered the walls in colors scientifically proven to have a positive effect on your mood. Our lighting fixtures simulate sunlight to give you energy, and our spacious floor plans are designed to give you more room to exercise in peace. Our playlist features tunes with 110 beats per minute or more to keep you pumped up and motivated. And our sparkling clean spaces let you stay focused on fitness rather than cleanliness.
Our personal trainers are experts at positive motivation. Whether you’re interested in weight training for beginners or a weight lifting routine for losing weight, our trainers can help you create a plan that works for your schedule and fitness level.
And because we believe fitness is better with friends, you can bring a guest 4 time a month (Green membership only).
Free weights, squat racks, plate-loaded machines and more
Whether you’re just starting with weight training, working on weight lifting for weight loss, or designing a bodybuilding workout plan, we have all the gear you’ll need for your free weight workouts.
- Our strength training equipment for free weights features squat racks, power racks, 40 pairs of dumbbells up to 90 pounds, and Olympic benches. We also offer selectorized machines, plate-loaded machines, Smith machines, cable crossovers, and more.
- In our multi-use stretch area, you’ll find kettlebells, battle ropes, stability balls, Bosu balls, resistance bands, foam rollers, and TRX equipment.
- Our functional training equipment includes rowers, medicine balls, Plyo boxes, TRX gear, and other equipment that’s ideal for HIIT and bodyweight circuit training.
- Our premium cardio equipment includes treadmills, rowers, ellipticals, step mills, and bikes.
The feel-good benefits of exercise
You probably know that exercise makes you feel better. After all, there’s nothing like a brisk walk or run, or a good game of tennis or hoops to boost your mood. But did you know there’s a scientific reason that exercise improves your attitude?
When we exercise, our brains release chemicals like endorphins, serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine that have a feel-good effect on our bodies. We experience positive feelings, lower stress, and less anxiety. Exercise can even help alleviate feelings of depression.
With a good workout, your immune system may get a boost as your heart pumps antibodies and white blood cells through your body more rapidly. You’re likely to feel more energetic throughout the day and to sleep more soundly at night. Plus, a good workout can give you a shot of confidence when you realize you can run a little farther or lift a bit more than you did last week.
FAQs: What are free weight workouts?
What are free weight workouts?
Free weight workouts are exercises with weights that are not connected to a machine or apparatus. Free weights are things like dumbbells, barbells, medicine balls, and kettlebells that you can pick up and move around. Free weight workouts are good for everything from lower and upper body exercises to core and back exercises.
What are the benefits of free weight workouts?
When you lift a free weight, a lot of muscle groups have to work together to stabilize your lift. That means you’re working more muscles and building more strength with every lift. Plus, free weight workouts help to increase strength and flexibility for the tasks you do every day – things like squatting to lift a heavy box, reaching to store an item on a high shelf, unloading groceries from the car, or raking leaves in the backyard.