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We found incredible Presidents’ Day deals on home exercise equipment: Our top 9 picks
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Your home gym deserves and equipment upgrade and now is one of the best times to do it thanks to all the incredible Presidents’ Day deals we found on treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes and more. Right now, you can get a top-of-the-line treadmill like the Sole ST90 or the Bowflex T10 for up to 32% off or snag your first rowing machine for just under $200.
Whatever your at-home cardio routine looks like, you have a chance to save on brand new equipment to take that routine to the next level. Keep reading for the best Presidents’ Day deals on exercise equipment.
The best Presidents Day deals on exercise equipment
The best way to reinvigorate your 2024 fitness routine is with a brand new machine at an unbeatable price. Here are our favorite deals to shop this week.
Save $1,200 on a Sole ST90 treadmill
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The Sole ST90 boasts a slat belt rather than the conventional continuous belt, making it one of our favorite treadmills for marathon training. With a max speed of 12.5 mph and 15 levels of incline, you can use this machine for both tempo runs and hill training.
If you’re looking for conditioning or core strength, switch to free mode which disengages the motor and turns this into a manual treadmill, allowing you to propel the belt yourself and use eight of the 15 incline levels. Crank up the incline in free mode for the ultimate strength-building run or drop it to flat and build up as much speed as you can for optimal cardio conditioning.
Right now, you have a chance to get the Sole treadmill at one of its lowest prices all year. Normally listed at $3,700, the Sole ST90 is on sale on Amazon for just $2,500.
$2,500 at Amazon
Save $300 on a popular under desk treadmill: WalkingPad R2
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The slim and foldable WalkingPad R2 features one of the most portable, space-saving designs we’ve seen. When not in use, it can fold in half, shrinking from about 47 inches long down to just 33 inches. Then, it can be folded again to store it in a vertical position instead of a horizontal one so it takes up almost no floor space at all. It slides easily under a desk, couch or in your closet.
It’s not just a favorite for its compact size, though. This surprisingly high-tech under-desk treadmill features eight built-in sensors to detect your cadence and foot placement. It uses that data to automatically adjust to match your walking speed, and stop when you stop. That smart tech makes it one of the best picks for your office. It’s easy to log a few steps when you can, stop when you need to and start up again without having to manually start, stop or adjust settings.
Right now, you can get this under-desk treadmill directly from WalkingPad for $739, a savings of $260. Or save even more when you get it on Amazon, where it’s currently priced at just $699 after coupon (reduced from $999).
$699 at Amazon
$729 at WalkingPad
A hybrid stepper-elliptical machine for 24% off: Bowflex Max Total 16
Bowflex
The Bowflex Max Total 16 is part stair stepper, part elliptical machine and packed with advanced features. That includes 20 resistance levels so you can make each workout as intense (or as mild) as you want. Adjust the intensity as you go or choose from one of the preset workout programs so you can just focus on your form while the machine automatically adjusts the resistance.
It comes with a free Bluetooth heart rate monitor armband that’s great for heart rate zone training.
Get the premium Bowflex hybrid stepper-elliptical machine while it’s on sale for $1,899 (reduced from $2,499).
$1,899 at Bowflex
Schwinn 470 elliptical machine: Save $200
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Featuring a 10-degree adjustable ramp, the Schwinn 470 is one of the only ellipticals on the market that lets you add incline for an even more challenging workout. It offers 25 levels of resistance for even more customization of your workout intensity. With a 20-inch stride length, you can enjoy a more natural running motion while you power through that high-intensity workout.
Get the high-intensity, low-impact Schwinn 470 while it’s on sale at Amazon for $1,099 (reduced from $1,299).
$1,099 at Amazon
Save more than 25% on the Bowflex T10 treadmill
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The Bowflex T10 offers incline and resistance settings as well as tons of immersive workout options that make for one of the most engaging and high intensity cardio workouts you can get indoors. For marathon trainers, the Bowflex T10 offers an impressive range of -5% up to 15% incline.
An optional JRNY fitness membership gives you access to over 200 virtual courses that transport you to white sand beaches or the streets of Rome while you run. (JRNY costs $149 per year, but the T10 comes with a 2-month free trial.)
Right now, you can get the Bowflex T10 for just $1,499 (reduced from $1,999).
$1,499 at Bowflex
$1,641 at Amazon
Save $200 on our readers’ favorite elliptical, the Niceday CT11
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The Niceday elliptical is a CBS Sports Essentials readers’ favorite. The budget-friendly pick promises a hyper-quiet magnetic drive system designed to eliminate noise. A 16-pound flywheel and 16 resistance levels provide double the resistance levels compared to other ellipticals at this price point.
Its 400-pound weight capacity and heavy-duty base, which is made from extra-thick commercial steel, make this model more stable than similarly priced machines.
Regularly $800, you can get the popular elliptical while it’s on sale at Amazon for just $600 right now.
$600 at Amazon
An immersive, smart exercise bike for under $1,000: Echelon EX5
Amazon
Echelon’s EX5 stationary bike features a small footprint that doesn’t take over your space. The 32 levels of quiet resistance give you variety in your workout, allowing you to captures the flats of HIIT training and the steep inclines in an epic hill ride. It even comes with a dumbbell rack on the back to stash your weights when you want to do a combined cardio and strength-training workout.
With an Echelon Premier membership ($40 per month), you’ll also get access to over 3,000 live and on-demand virtual classes as well as exclusive playlists and other premium features. Best of all, one membership can be shared by up to five users.
Regularly priced at $1,000, you can get the 4.3-star rated stationary bike for just $786 on Amazon right now.
$786 at Amazon
Over 40% off a popular rowing machine: Sunny Health & Fitness rowing machine
Amazon
This popular Sunny Health rowing machine has earned more than 11,800 five-star ratings on Amazon. Reviewers love that it’s sturdy, quiet, and that both the seat and the rowing handle move smoothly with each repetition.
The adjustable resistance levels make it easy to alternate between high-intensity sessions and easier recovery workouts. Plus, when you’re done for the day, you can fold it up and stash it in a corner or a closet.
Amazon dropped the price on this 4.4-star rated rower to $225 with coupon (reduced from $399).
$225 at Amazon
Save $100 on the Sportsroyals Stair Stepper
Amazon
The pedals of the 4.4-star-rated Sportsroyals Twist Stepper don’t just move up and down. They add a twist action that makes the workout a bit more challenging, targeting more muscle groups than a standard under-desk stepper. To make it even better, removable resistance bands let you get an arm workout during your cardio session.
We love that its small enough to easily stow away when not in use.
The total body exercise machine is on sale at Amazon for just $130 (reduced from $230).
$130 at Amazon
Shop more Presidents’ Day deals on exercise equipment
- Save $500 on a NordicTrack treadmill: NordicTrack Commercial 2450, $2,499 (reduced from $2,999)
- A premium stationary bike for under $1,000: Schwinn IC4 Indoor Cycling Bike, $990 (reduced from $1,199)
- Get $200 off an immersive, connected rowing machine: Hydrow Wave Rower, $1,695 (reduced from $1,895)
- A high intensity elliptical for under $500: Youngfit elliptical machine, $390 (reduced from $460)
- 23% off a top-rated under-desk elliptical: Cubii JR1+, $230 (reduced from $300)
Les Mills, the New Zealand Olympian who opened an Auckland gym in 1968 that grew into an international group fitness brand, has died aged 91, his family confirmed.
Mills, a four-time Olympic athlete and former Auckland mayor, and his wife, Colleen, founded the first Les Mills gym on Victoria Street in central Auckland after a sporting career in which he represented New Zealand in shot put and discus.
More than five decades later, Les Mills workouts are used by clubs around the world.
The business, now run by later generations of the Mills family, became internationally known for choreographed group-exercise classes set to music.
Mills’s son, Phillip, joined the business full-time in 1980, and his partner, Jackie, helped develop the music-driven group-fitness model that became central to its global expansion.
Les Mills became an international fitness brand. (Supplied: Les Mills)
Phillip Mills said in a statement that his father had achieved a great deal in his life, but the common thread was that he always wanted to help others.
“Dad was immensely strong, driven, and always cared deeply for the less advantaged,” he said.
“He left a lasting impression on everyone he met, and his spirit lives on in gym workouts around the world, continuing to help people fall in love with fitness.“
Les Mills was born Leslie Roy Mills in Auckland in 1934.
He competed at four Olympic Games from 1960 to 1972 and won five Commonwealth Games medals, including discus gold at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.
Move into politics
He later moved into local politics and served as mayor of Auckland from 1990 to 1998.
Juliet Yates served on Auckland Council during his first term.
She told RNZ he brought others together.
“He was a very, very pleasant person to work with,” she said.
“He was really good at bringing people together and achieving things for the benefit of the city,”
she said.
“At the time, I think the achievements of the council he was mayor of were benefiting the whole of the city.”
He also remained active in sport as a coach, helping guide New Zealand discus thrower Beatrice Faumuina to the world title in 1997 and Commonwealth Games gold in 1998.
Les Mills was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1973 for services to sport and a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002 for services to local government and sport.
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Chester County has an elaborate new outdoor gym, installed as part of a national campaign to encourage exercise and combat obesity.
The infrastructure is called a Fitness Court and it features seven stations that enable people to get a workout in seven minutes.
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The Fitness Court was funded by Independence Blue Cross as part of the National Fitness Campaign. The $100 million initiative will work in collaboration with schools and municipalities to build 5,000 outdoor gyms across the country by 2030.
“By investing in accessible, welcoming spaces like this, we’re helping remove barriers to healthier lifestyles and ensuring more residents across Chester County have opportunities to stay active and connected close to home,” Marian Moskowitz, vice chair of the Chester County Board of Commissioners, said in a statement.
Last year, approximately 37% of the people in the United States were obese, down slightly from a record-high of nearly 40% in 2022, a recent Gallup poll reports. The drop is due in part to the rise in GLP-1 weight-loss medications. More than 34% of adults and more than 15% of children in Pennsylvania are obese, according to statistics from the Obesity Action Network, a national nonprofit advocacy group.
Obesity is a chronic condition that increases the risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer and other serious health issues.
The Fitness Court is located at Charlestown Township Park, which already had play structures, basketball courts, picnic pavilions and a one-mile paved trail. The new outdoor gym is designed for people 14 and older and adaptable to different fitness levels.
People can use the Fitness Court app for workout challenges and metrics to help people track their exercise goals and outcomes.
Horsham Township in Montgomery County also has a Fitness Court at Lukens Park at 540 Dresher Road.
Other municipalities, schools and organizations throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania that own accessible public space may apply for grants to help build Fitness Courts, according to IBX.
InnerCity Weightlifting volunteers find a sense of fulfillment by helping clients improve their fitness.
When people think about treating or managing their mental health, therapy, journaling and reading are often among the first solutions that come to mind. While those are all valuable tools, one of the most effective outlets is often overlooked: physical fitness.
At the Lift US Foundation, based in Oakland, leaders emphasize the mental benefits of exercise for adolescents through a strength-training-focused approach. Through its partnership with the NBA Foundation, the organization has expanded its efforts to empower young people and, as founder Mike Jenkins describes it, “create superheroes.”
“The need in the community is very foundational about strength and health in general, physical and mental,” Jenkins said. “I locked in on a term I like to call generational health, and what that means is the young people in our program become the healthiest in their families, and they take those values going forward in their own.”
As for InnerCity Weightlifting, which is based in Boston and Chicago, the organization uses personal training to help people affected by systemic barriers and past challenges build a new path forward. The nonprofit helps individuals with histories of gang involvement earn personal training certifications before connecting them with paying clients.
Though some people may not want to pursue personal training full-time, ICW still provides them with fitness tools they can carry throughout life while also helping guide their next steps into the workforce.
“Learn how to work out safely, learn how to give your friends a workout and then tell us what you need, what kind of jobs you’re interested in, what’s holding you back from some stability,” said ICW’s head of development Ian Kilpatrick.
Fitness to opportunity
From the ground up, Lift US focuses on teaching young people how to understand their bodies through fitness, nutrition education, counseling, mentorship and mental health support, all while helping them develop a future-focused mindset beyond the program.
Seeing a program participant progress through each phase and ultimately succeed is Lift US’s ultimate goal.
Rucker Johnson Jr. joined the organization at age 10 with a passion for science, art and drawing. Over time, he developed a love for weightlifting as well, eventually earning a spot on Team USA and setting his sights on representing the country at the 2028 Olympic Games.
“A complete human. A complete person, physically strong, mentally strong, academically strong, and not relying on getting a football or baseball scholarship. They are just doing it to empower themselves,” Jenkins said.
Johnson Jr. also branched out to the Hidden Genius Project, an Oakland-based nonprofit that trains and mentors young Black men in technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership. The organization has partnered with the NBA Foundation for several years.
Job pathways beyond fitness
As mentioned before, ICW ultimately helps place participants into jobs even outside the fitness industry, with their interactions with clients playing a key role.
The organization has seen numerous trainers transition into different industries simply by networking and performing well with the people they train. “We had guys get jobs at Toyota because a training client was a manager at Toyota, we’ve had a client start a dog grooming business and hire her trainer as one of the first employees,” said Kilpatrick.
The organization also builds partnerships with corporations such as UPS and Home Depot to streamline job pathways for participants.
Looking ahead, ICW is also focusing on creating more in-house managerial roles for participants who may not want to become full-fledged trainers. Either way, the organization provides volunteers with a sense of belonging and direction that helps them rebuild stability in their lives.
At their core, both organizations aim to build belonging and long-term success through fitness, which is a great place to start.
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