AFG Wins Health Magazine’s “America’s Healthiest Fitness Award”
Company’s newest home gym recognized in leading publication’s strength category
Advanced Fitness Group (AFG) received top honors
in Health magazine’s 2008 America’s
Healthiest Fitness Awards competition. The specialty fitness equipment
manufacturer’s 2.0 AS Home Gym won the America’s Healthiest Fitness Award
in the strength category.
“Health magazine’s recognition of our newest home gym clearly
demonstrates AFG’s commitment to designing fitness products that help a variety
of consumers build functional strength as well as a healthier lifestyle,” said
Todd Boerboom, brand manager for AFG.
America’s Healthiest Fitness Awards
recognizes Health magazine’s top
fitness picks – selected by the publication’s experts and leaders in the
fitness industry. For this year’s competition, a panel of experts and industry
leaders selected the top products in important lifestyle areas such as food,
fitness and beauty.
AFG develops home gyms that are more inviting and engaging
for next-generation strength trainers – non-traditional participants such as women,
seniors and first timers who want a fast, total body workout that addresses a
specific fitness need (i.e. weight loss, sport-specific training, etc.).
AFG 2.0 AS Home Gym
The 2.0 AS is a smart home gym that delivers the perfect
strength training solution for beginners, yet is
versatile and robust enough to appeal to advanced users. It is designed
to deliver a fluid, total-body workout in as little as 20 minutes.Users can quickly and efficiently
move through workouts due to the gym’s unique design. Cables don’t have to be
rerouted between exercises, which is common with competitive models.
High-quality cables and commercial-grade pulleys equipped with bearings make
lifts extremely smooth, minimizing stress on the body while prolonging the life
of the equipment. Weight resistance is quickly and easily modified through an
incremental weight stack with pull-pin design. The multi-position weight stack
pivots to give users easy access no matter where the gym is placed in the home.
Individuals can select from more than
70 lifts using a high, mid or low pulley, a leg curl bar or various attachments
(lat bar, bicep curl bar and leg cuffs). For those who need help getting
started with a
strength training program, the 2.0 AS
comes with an in-depth training guide that provides a variety of
time-based, body-specific or
sport-specific workouts. The training guide allows individuals to customize a
strength-training program based upon specific needs and goals.
“Users of the 2.0 AS are more likely to look at weight
training as a means to lose weight, hit a golf ball farther or increase overall
energy and fitness versus building muscle mass. That is exactly the type of
user this home gym is designed for,” said Boerboom.
AFG is a subsidiary of Johnson
Health Tech Co., Ltd., the fourth-largest fitness equipment manufacturer in the
world. AFG products are sold exclusively at specialty fitness retailers
in the United States and Canada. AFG
offers a wide variety of smart, value-added fitness equipment, including
treadmills, elliptical trainers, exercise bikes and functional strength
training equipment.
All AFG equipment is designed with one thing in mind – the
end user experience. Before a product is conceived, AFG talks to consumers to
find out what they want in their fitness equipment. Based on this knowledge,
AFG focuses its resources on the things that matter most, developing the tools
and features people need to accomplish a fitness goal. The end result is smart,
highly functional fitness equipment that empowers people to look, feel and live
better.
Visit the 2.0 AS product page to learn more.