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The best hip thrust machine for most Canadians is a plate-loaded unit with a high weight capacity and a padded, adjustable hip belt. If you train in a condo or a small basement, a band-loaded bench is the smarter pick because it is light, compact, and easier on the joints. Our top pick overall is the AmStaff HM300 Commercial Hip Thrust Machine, a plate-loaded unit ...

Personal trainers in Canada earn a government median wage of $19.00 an hour, yet salary aggregators put the average closer to $28 to $34.53 an hour, and the top independent trainers clear $100,000 a year. The number you see depends entirely on who is counting and how, because unbilled floor hours, se...

The average bench press depends on three things: age, sex, and bodyweight. Across millions of logged lifts, the typical male gym-goer benches about 212 lbs (96 kg) for a single rep, and the typical female lifter benches about 112 lbs (51 kg), according to Strength Level. Strength peaks in your 20s and 30s, then eases...

The best bumper plates for most Canadian home lifters come down to one choice: durable virgin rubber if you train Olympic lifts and want colour-coded plates, or quieter, lower-bounce crumb rubber if you train in a condo or basement and need to keep the noise down. Either way, the plate should ride on a tight steel insert, hold a weight tolerance of about 1 percent,...

The best adjustable bench for most Canadians does three things well: it moves through flat, incline, and decline without wobbling, it holds far more than you can lift, and it fits the room you actually train in. For a lot of us that room is a basement, a garage, or a corner of a condo, so footprint matters as much as steel.

At Fitness Avenue, we h...