Fitness Equipment for Home
When most of us think about getting into shape, we consider joining a gym and start looking around for cheap memberships and good deals. This is a good way to get in shape yes, and the variety of different equipment available there, as well as the general atmosphere, will help you to feel motivated and to stick to your training goals at the same time as giving you all of the tools that you need in order to really start seeing differences.
However this is certainly not the only way to get into shape – not by a longshot – and there are actually several other ways we can workout that don’t involve any travel or any kind of membership. One of the ways to do this is to simply populate our home with our own gym equipment. Here we will look at that in a little more detail.
Why Home Gym Equipment?
There are countless very good reasons to workout using home gym equipment. One of these reasons is simply the fact that home gym equipment is going to represent a big saving. When you use home gym equipment you will no doubt spend a lot of money in your initial investment – bench presses, treadmills and lat pull downs are not cheap purchases.
However at the same time this is still just a one off investment and that means that it will save you money in the long run. Your alternative is to pay for membership to a gym which can cost anywhere from $20-$400 a month depending on your chosen venue. This quickly adds up and on top of that you have transport and parking etc to consider.
Another thing to bear in mind is that working out from home using your own equipment is perhaps the best way to facilitate your training. If you have your equipment ready and on standby, then all you have to do to do a workout is to head over to your bench press and lift some weights. Conversely if you have no equipment you’ll have to do something more vigorous like press ups, and you’ll need to come up with that motivation for what to do in the first place. If you’re going to the gym then you have to face not only the workout, but also travelling there and back, getting changed and being ogled by all the other gym goers.
Setting Up Your Home Gym
In short then there are plenty of good reasons to get your own home gym equipment. The remaining question is how do you set up that home gym and what should you invest in specifically?
First of all, you are going to need to get yourself a CV machine. CV is ‘cardiovascular’ and that means that these machines will train your heart rate and your fat loss. By using these devices we can burn fat and improve our general fitness. Something like treadmill or elliptical machine is ideal here.
Next you need to look into weightlifting, and you can do this with dumbbells to begin with, and later as you progress with a barbell and some equipment such as a bench.
There are some good value brands around. Such as bodyworx fitness equipment and healthstream fitness equipment.
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