Luckily for me, my wife is an Exercise Physiologist Ed G 7/6/04 10:01:25 AM ET
she even runs a wellness center for local county government that has the very best equipment tax payer money can buy.
When I wanted a home gym, She did a little research on consumer equipment and brought me home a Weider home gym that was purchased at Sears for ~$400, an attachment for ab crunches some dumb bells and a LifeCycle 6500.