More About Tunturi Fitness Equipment

Tunturi is one of the best known fitness equipment manufacturers, renowned for their excellent product designs that are distinctively Scandinavian in character. The equipments are ergonomically designed and have innovative features for ease of use and better results. Tunturi is truly an innovator of excellence and has various patented hardwares and softwares such as T-Road, T-Ride and PSC that lend versatility and superior performance to the Tunturi line of products. Tunturi is well known in more than 40 countries for their contributions in research, development and manufacture of different kinds of exercise equipments and bikes. Tunturi is the market leader in its category in Finland and is a global brand in the real sense of the term.

Tunturi began its long and illustrious journey in 1922 when the Harkke brothers opened a tiny and nondescript cycle shop in Turku. “Tunturi” literally means “Highland” and became hugely successful from its inception. Gradually the cycle shop was exchanged for a factory. It is worth noting here that Tunturi was the market leader in mopeds in the 1950s. Tunturi used its expertise in the cycle industry to diversify into the fitness business and by 1970s it became a global leader in the fitness space. Success has been unabated since then and in 2003 Tunturi Oy Ltd was taken over by the Accell Group.

The different kinds of fitness equipments and their variants manufactured by the company include cross trainers, home trainers, muscle trainers, recumbents, rowers, treadmills and the Tunturi small fitness line of products. Tunturi small fitness is actually a collection of fitness accessories that are meant for specific fitness routines. The accessories include those meant for yoga, pilates, classic fitness regime, fun fitness routines and balance-boards. All the products bear distinctive product design for which Tunturi is famous all over the world. From bicycles to fitness equipments, Tunturi has carved out a niche for itself with their superior product design and innovations. Tunturi bikes are safe to use, simple in design, comfortable and comprise of stable frames. Heart Rate Control programs have been incorporated in the bikes along with chest straps for accurate measurements. Features such as soft pedals and adjustable parts have been included to make the equipments as user friendly and result oriented as possible.

Tunturi believes in the future and is a design oriented fitness equipment manufacturer. Tunturi focuses on “compactness of a design” and is committed to producing user friendly equipments that are scrutinized for the minutest of details. Some of the features that make Tunturi equipments stand out in the crowd of fitness equipments include lightness in weight, compactness, portability, less space consuming, user friendly monitors and ease of placement since there is no need for electricity in many equipments. Ever since its foundations in 1922, Tunturi has been a pioneer in the fitness segment and developed path breaking and innovative products and has a host of unique and patented designs under its name. Accell Fitness, the present owner of the Tunturi brand is the second largest manufacturer of in-home fitness equipments in Europe. The group also owns the famous Bremshey Sport® brand.

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