Advanced Movement Design™ is a progressive platform designed exclusively for the Precor Discovery™ Series Selectorized Line to provide exercisers with a unique workout experience that challenges their muscles through a wider range of motion. This technology provides first time exercisers a nice intermediate medium from traditional, simple machine-defined movement patterns. The overall design and concept incorporates increased core engagement, stabilization, and improved joint range of motion.

Most gyms provide a variety of strength training options to accommodate a wide range of member experience levels and training objectives. The wide range allows you to select equipment that matches your level of familiarity with fitness equipment and what you’re looking to achieve. Single station strength machines provide a supported environment to develop muscular endurance and strength. These pin select machines put exercisers in ergonomically correct positions and guide them through a controlled path of motion that targets a specific muscle or group of muscles.

METs is a relative measure of the physiological capacity to do an activity. For example, when a person is at rest (aka basal metabolic rate) he/she is at 1 MET, whereas running a 10 minute per mile pace (6.0 mph) is equivalent to 10 METs. When performing a fitness test on Precor equipment, the result is an estimate of an individual's physiological capacity or max MET level.

This test predicts a user's fitness level by monitoring heart rate during a preprogrammed course. The basic protocol - including the course definition and the analysis algorithm were developed in 1992 by Dr. Neil Gordon of the Cooper Clinic. In 2002, Dr. Emily Cooper, of Seattle Performance Medicine, assisted Precor to calibrate the Fitness Test to predict results shown through VO2 max testing. As such, the test is clinically designed, extremely accurate as a model, and a great guideline to predict a person's fitness level.