How to choose sports equipment for training at home

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:37

In order to play sports, it is not at all necessary to buy a subscription to a fitness club. You can successfully pump up problem areas and lose weight with the help of exercises while doing it at home, which is especially important for young mothers and those who work remotely. However, for this you need to choose the right sports equipment.

If there is a lot of space at home

If you are a happy owner of a spacious home, you can buy exercise equipment at home, almost like in a gym: a bench for the press, parallel bars, an ellipse. One of the most versatile options is the power multi-station. It cannot be called small, but on it you can train almost all parts of the body, using different areas, advises Anton Efimov, consultant of the Ural plant of sports equipment. The good old Swedish walls are also quite versatile. They can be equipped with additional attachments for adults and children (ropes, rings, horizontal bars).

If there is not enough space at home

Much more often, however, there is a situation where every centimeter in an apartment is worth its weight in gold. In this case, you can purchase more compact sports equipment: resistance bands, jump ropes, TRX loops, a gym wheel, dumbbells, etc.

Many modern fitness equipment, with very small dimensions, allow you to work out different muscle groups, and you can even store them in a desk drawer. There is also sports equipment that, if necessary, can be emptied and significantly lightened: for example, dumbbells that are filled with water, or sandbags - sandbags.

Ways to save

First, you can buy exercise equipment and sports equipment designed for different muscle groups. For example, the "Roman chair" can be used both to work out the muscles of the abdominal and oblique muscles of the abdomen, and to train the muscles of the back. Secondly, expensive exercise equipment can be bought not in a store, but according to advertisements from previous owners.

Many people understand that the equipment is gathering dust and takes up too much space, and put it up for sale. “In the secondary market, even almost completely unused exercise equipment is 50-90% cheaper than in the store. At the same time, even large-sized purchases are not a problem to be delivered to your home by a transport company,”comments Daria Kasyanova, c2c marketing manager at Avito.

Finally, instead of overpaying for well-known brands, you can use the private labels of popular sports networks. After all, huge marketing costs are included in the price of the most fashionable brands.

What to save on

First of all, you should not save on those shells and devices that account for body weight during training. For example, the same TRX loops imply exercises in which a person hangs on them with almost all their weight. If these are not high-quality slings, but cheap Chinese fakes, it may end badly.

Exercise machines for the abdomen and abs

Abdominal machines allow you to pump up cubes on your stomach without the unnecessary strain on your neck that occurs with normal exercise. In order to train your abs at home, you can purchase the AB Rocket ("Super Press") or Total core simulators, which are similar to chairs without legs. Also for the press there are horizontal bars that can be installed in the doorway, expander-springs with foot rests or the "Monolith" exercise machine.

Back and shoulder trainers

The most comfortable devices for strengthening the back are the already mentioned Roman chair, as well as an exercise machine called the hunchback. If there is no room in the apartment, you can purchase a gymnastic wheel that affects almost all muscle groups of the back. Well-known barbells and dumbbells will help to make the muscles of the shoulder girdle more prominent. Of the larger devices, vertical traction and rowing machines are intended for this.

Exercise machines for the buttocks, thighs and legs

One of the most popular glute trainers is the so-called Smith machine, which allows you to lift the bar in a fixed position. True, few people can afford to keep such a dimensional simulator at home. But there is also a compact sports equipment that will help the body below the waist to get closer to the forms of dreams and at the same time takes up very little space. These are quite budget hoop / hula hoop, mini stepper and health disc. In addition, a butterfly expander and a clothespin trainer are very useful for the buttocks, which also strengthens the muscles of the thigh.

Optional accessories

Additionally, for sports at home, you can purchase a sauna suit. Such a suit can only be used at home - it looks like garment from garbage bags. However, many of those who have used it confirm that the sauna suit accelerates weight loss. The non-breathable material makes you sweat when training with triple strength - not very aesthetically pleasing, but effective. And it is inexpensive, less than 1000 rubles.

What sports equipment is not worth buying

There is also a kind of top simulators that many people buy, and then they cannot get rid of them for years. Perhaps the first place among them is occupied by an exercise bike, which is most often used as a clothes hanger. It's easier to get a bike that you can ride in the fresh air, or an ellipse that uses slightly different muscle groups.

Also a dubious purchase is a treadmill. Running is also much more pleasant in the fresh air, and besides, running has many contraindications. If something happens, it’s easier to stop jogging on the street than to get rid of an unnecessary simulator.