“Better,” is obviously subjective, and while we believe our service is better, your opinion is the one that matters. What we do know, however, is that we provide the best value, read on for a full description of our entire workflow before your service call, during your service call, and after your service call.
Susan asks, “What is better, a treadmill or an elliptical?” Great question Susan! As with most things, there is no clear answer, it is dependent on the user of the machine.
Before I proceed, I do want to mention that none of us here are personal trainers nor medical professionals. However, we do know a few. Kevin Deeth, one of our Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) friends at builtlean.com wrote a phenomenal article about the pros and cons of both. Check out the full article at the link above, we’ve also included Kevin’s list of the benefits of each below:
Recently, we had the privilege of being interviewed by Wisconsin Real Estate, a website featuring articles pertaining to life and living in Wisconsin as well as real estate listings.
Although every element of our preventive maintenance service is important, I would rank interior cleaning at number three, right behind lubrication and hardware tensioning. No matter the type of equipment in your home or gym, basic cleaning will go a long way toward maintaining its appearance as well as ensuring the longest possible life of the unit.
Before writing this article, I had a difficult time deciding what the more important topic would be, treadmill lubrication or keeping your treadmill (or any other machine) clean and free of dust and debris. While both are at the top of this list I decided to focus on treadmill lubrication first. My reason for doing so is due to my belief that treadmill lubrication is widely misunderstood while machine cleanliness is a much more intuitive concept. We’ll focus on machine cleaning next month.
Treadmill works great, it’s so quiet finally. What a joy to workout, I never thought I would ever say that…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Huff-n-Puff Fitness Repair, LLC will be closed until April 30th. Per the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (IDCEO) and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), services to all residences and most commercial facilities has been deemed recreational and is not considered essential. We all understand the importance of your fitness routines and realize this is highly disruptive; in the same way the livelihoods of over a dozen of our employees have been disrupted by this pandemic.
In the meantime, we are authorized to service our hospitals and rehab facilities and are maintaining minimal staffing to ensure that we are able to respond to them as needed. Per the IDCEO and WEDC, service calls to residences, even due to medical need, are not authorized. Per their judgement, residential fitness equipment is not medical equipment, and is therefore not essential.
Once more, we fully understand how disruptive this is to everyone. Please do not ask us to make an exception to these orders. We run every part of this company by the book and we will not risk the health and safety of our employees and our customers, nor do anything outside the law. Any provider that continues to perform fitness equipment service outside the parameters set by IDCEO and WEDC is in violation of the directives that have been established.
We are eagerly awaiting the day when these orders are lifted and we are back to helping you maintain your fitness goals. When that time comes we will be making an exhaustive effort to perform service as quickly as humanly possible. We do anticipate a backlog of 5-plus weeks, and as always, service calls will be handled in the order they were received. If you are in need of service, please submit a request online and we’ll be in touch as quickly as possible.
Lastly, to all our customers, thank you all for your patience. You have all been wonderful to work with throughout this uncertain time. As we all pull through this together, we look forward to continuing to serve you as soon as these restrictions are lifted.
Stay safe and stay healthy!
Dan Thompson, Owner, Huff-n-Puff Fitness Repair, LLC
