Torque Fitness - Intelligent Power

The Torque Difference

Torque Fitness was founded in 2005 by a team of experts in the fitness equipment industry, who collectively have more than 175 years of experience designing and manufacturing award-winning home gyms and commercial strength products used worldwide.

The team recognized an opportunity to create strength training products that provide unique attributes to better meet customer needs than many of the look-alike home gyms in the market today. By maintaining an efficient and agile business structure, Torque Fitness team members are able to be focused on listening to customers and reacting quickly with creative, innovative ideas that differentiate our products with meaningful functions and features.

Torque's crew of powerful veterans is unmatched. Our leaders have played integral roles over 20 years in the development of critical breakthroughs on resistance equipment. Our talented designers and engineers hold numerous patents and have been frequently recognized with awards.

Torque Fitness team members are also company owners, creating an unparalleled commitment to excellence and exceptional, personalized service to customers.

Also unique to Torque Fitness is its exclusive dedication to home gym systems. Reap the rewards from the company's complete commitment of time, resources and expertise to creating superior strength training equipment that is revolutionizing the way people exercise.

Capitalize on Torque's elite expertise and profit from thoughtful design, extraordinary technology, superb performance and unbeatable durability. Exceed your expectations and experience unprecedented results with Torque Fitness.

Torque Fitness is exclusively focused on home gym systems, with all its resources, inspiration and expertise dedicated to making absolutely unbeatable equipment that delivers the results you want.

It's not about simply creating another home gym. Long before producing any sketches, CAD drawings, renderings, models or prototypes, the skilled engineers at Torque first brainstorm the future of strength training, inspired by creativity and imagination.

Then, as aspirations take shape, Torque's comprehensive research and testing begin to ensure that its gyms move the way the body does naturally, offer significant variety and challenge for all levels of exercisers, are easy to use and will perform superbly for years.

Torque home gyms are designed based on precise biomechanics and proper ergonomics to deliver the safest, most effective and comfortable workouts overall. That's Intelligent Power.

Developing strength-training equipment that performs the way your body naturally does begins with understanding every one of the more than 430 skeletal muscles that regulate movement. In addition, Torque engineers fully comprehend the body's skeletal system, articulations (joints) and their range of motion and the neuromuscular system that dictates how movements are performed.

Creating home gyms that offer exceptional performance and variety also requires significant knowledge of planes of motion and axes of rotation, as well as anthropometric characteristics of the body, such as size, shape and proportions.

In essence, Torque Fitness bases the design of every machine on an unwavering commitment to and a rigorous study of biomechanics, which is the science of how the body reacts to forces applied to it as it moves naturally. The company builds the machines around the users - around you and your needs.

The result for you? Superior effectiveness, greater variety, ultimate comfort, supreme safety and better results.

Torque Fitness engineers scrutinize every motion, every angle, every pivot, every articulation. This precise attention to detail yields exceptional biomechanical integrity, plus a multitude of benefits:

»	Incredibly space-efficient machines, such as the F5 that can be enclosed into less than a 4'x4' footprint and fit in into a corner.
»	Aesthetically appealing, modern industrial designs that complement any decor.
»	Remarkably smooth, fluid motion for every exercise.
»	Quick, efficient workouts - simple adjustments using the FAST-Attach cable connection system, the Torque Fork for weight selection and color-coded locking pins, levers and touch points.
»	Extremely comfortable T-Grips that move with your body.
»	Significant variety for virtually endless combinations of exercises.
»	Proper alignment and valuable safety for each exercise.
»	Applying loads to the body when joints are optimally positioned to accept load instead of in a more vulnerable position which could incur improper stress and lead to injury.

Even the most intelligent fitness equipment designs are only as good as the materials used to physically build them and the attention to quality control during manufacturing and upon assembly. Every Torque Fitness home gym is built in a ISO 9001 certified factory using carefully selected, premium components, including:

»	Solid frames using 11-gauge pickled (pre-treated to prevent rust) steel.
»	Cast steel / iron blend weight stacks with sound-dampening flanged bushings.
»	Fiberglass-reinforced nylon pulleys with sealed grade A ball bearings.
»	Internally lubricated, 2,000 pound (908 Kg) tensile strength galvanized steel aircraft cable with nylon jacket.
»	Commercial grade, double-stitched, marine grade upholstery pads.
»	Highly durable accessories such as D-handles, lat bars, abdominal and ankle straps and universal adaptors with snap hooks.

In addition, procedures such as robotic and electric welding, electrostatic powder coating and stringent quality checklists help ensure that Torque home gyms deliver unparalleled performance.

That's why Torque can confidently offer a light commercial warranty, and one of the best residential warranties in the industry, with a limited lifetime warranty on the frame, welds and parts and 10 years on the cables and upholstery.

Congratulations on your commitment to strength training, which scientific research continues to show produces a wealth of benefits for individuals of any age. Home gyms provide a convenient, safe and effective way to exercise.

With the abundance of information on exercises and the numerous varieties of home fitness equipment, it can be overwhelming to determine what best suits your needs.

When evaluating home gyms, consider the following tips:

Where to shop: Visit specialty fitness retail stores, where the selection of quality equipment is greater and the staff is professionally trained to demonstrate the machines and help you carefully evaluate each to find the ultimate match. It's unlikely that you'll see the same variety and high quality of home gyms and receive this type of personal attention at larger, general interest stores that carry fitness equipment.

Who will use the gym: Be aware of who will be using the home gym and their personal goals so that the product is suitable for the individual goals of every user.

Space available: Measure the space you have, including the ceiling height, to ensure that you can accommodate the gyms you're evaluating. Be sure to take into consideration the "user or live area space" which is the space required to actually use the machine.

Test each machine: Wear your workout clothes and try a variety of different exercises on the machine to experience the feel of the machine, the ease of adjustments as well as any options available.

Feel: With a home gym, movements should be solid and smooth (as opposed to jerky, catching or sticking) and should feel natural, in directions that your body moves comfortably. You should feel the exercise in the muscle/s that it is targeting, and you shouldn't feel pain. You should feel comfortable when positioned to use the product.

Adjustability: Ensure that the gym has adequate range of weight and manageable resistance increments to challenge each user, and test various positions to confirm that adjustments are easily made and enable the gym to custom fit different size exercisers. Make sure moving from one exercise to another does not require plugging things in and out or attaching / detaching cables which wastes time, leads to frustration and diminishes your enthusiasm to use the product on a consistent basis (which is the biggest factor in achieving the results you are looking for).

Solid construction: Quality home gyms should be stable and solid, without wobbling, loose bolts or squeaky parts. A frame that is built with 11-gauge steel that is at least 2"x3" in diameter and powder-coated with paint generally are extremely durable.

Pads: Polyurethane, molded pads or contoured pads on the seats and press arms are most comfortable and resist cracking and tearing.

Bearings, cables and pulleys: Oil-impregnated brass bearings reduce wear and tear. Fiberglass reinforced nylon pulleys with sealed grade A ball bearings or linear bearings and coated aircraft cables tested to at least a tensile strength of 2,000 pounds should endure rigorous use.

Accessories/options: Tools like ankle or abdominal straps, straight bars, lat bars, and different length D-handle straps can add versatility and the ability to perform more exercises - all of which contribute extra motivation, more consistent usage and greater effectiveness.

Safety: Premium home gyms encase their weight stacks and or working parts with a metal shroud to minimize pinching of fingers or catching clothes. Adjustment pins on seats and press arms should be snug and secure to prevent slippage. Weight stack pins should lock in the stack to prevent falling out during movements.