So you've decided to buy a treadmill so that you can enjoy great fitness gym equipment style quality right in the comfort of your own home. That pricey gym membership's been cutting into your Monthly Designer Handbag Shopping Spree budget for months now, and you've grown tired of paying a hefty fee to be hit on by retired government employees struggling to lift weights. Of course, now you want to work out in the comfort of your own living room-along with repeats of The Golden Girls and a gallon of Ben and Jerry's. There's many a treadmill for sale, but which one's right for you? Have you considered the Image 10.0 treadmill?

Fitness Gym Equipment: The Image 10.0 Treadmill:

The Image 10.0 treadmill is the brainchild the Icon fitness company and your guide to great fitness gym equipment right at home. Unless you're the personal assistant to Richard Simmons, or just really buff, you aren't likely to recognized the name Icon right off hand, but you certainly know their products. Does the name NordicTrack ring a bell? If you've ever had the misfortune of spending a Sunday morning at home when the cable's out, you definitely seen the infomercial.

With such the NT and several other super fitness inventions under it's belt, Icon Health and Fitness is the leader in the sales of treadmills and treadmill accessories-the self-proclaimed leader, that is. Running with Icon's stamp of excellence, the Image 10.0 comes from good stock, making it one of the gems in the family of fitness gym equipment.

So it is only natural that the treadmill would include two things; the first, a ritzy price tag, and the second, quality fit for royality. The Image 10.0 treadmill offers both.

Icon's Image goes for approximately $399. The Image offers you the opportunity to climb mountains or run down hills with four preprogrammed workout formats, this is not a runner's treadmill. In fact, anyone doing more than the occasional brisk walk or jog on the Image, may walk away, panting, and disappointed by the belt's shock absorption.

Perhaps the Image's greatest asset is one offered with every Icon original, the iFIT technology. Don't be put off by the bad grammer, the iFIT technology allows everyone owner of an Icon original to customized their own fitness regime. If you've got Internet access, you've got a program. You can even program a trainer's voice, use music and the treadmill's speed will be pre-set.

Now finding the Image 10.0 treadmill might be easier than ever. Icon recently launched a revamped version on the 10.0 called the Image 17.0, different name, same outstanding quality. No matter what number's following it, if it's Icon you'll know it was built on good Image-and that's great for fitness gym equipment.

Your Guide To Enjoying Asian Food For Fitness

And while you are purchasing fitness exercise equipment, start working on your diet. Lots of Asian cuisine is low and fat and tasty, too. If your idea of Asian food is the Egg Foo Young and Shrimp Fried Rice that you pick up at that little place in Times Square on Friday's after work, get ready for a new education.

Popular Asian Food

Although eating habits vary across Asia in similar fashion to how the Tex-Mex food of Southern Texas is in sharp contrast to the good upscale eating on New York City. Popular Asian food and ingredients include:

•Mangosteen: Mangosteen is about the same size as an orange and is a readily available tropical fruit.

•Durian: Asia's most popular fruit.

•Bul-Dak: Spicy Korean chicken.

•Sam-Gyup-Sal: Sam-Gyup-Sal are grilled strips of pork.

•Hweh: Raw fish. Think of it as Korea's answer to sushi.

•Sushi: The original raw fish.