Home Exercise Equipment

Home Exercise Equipment – What Do You Really Need?

We’ve all done it at one time or another; joined a gym with the best intentions in the world, paid the subscription fees, bought top of the line gym clothes, shoes, home exercise equipment and then just didn’t find the time to go. There’s always something else more important to do, isn’t there? Cleaning the house, looking after the kids, even taking the dog for a walk. Well, on the bright side, all those things count as exercise anyway, so at least we’re doing something healthy! It’s not enough though; if you want a proper workout, you will have to set aside some proper time at home. It does not have to be a whole hour or more at a time– 10 minutes six times a day is good and it still adds up to an hour’s exercise!

Self Motivation and the death of home exercise equipment

This article sortta summarizes why I carry a jelly roll under my T-shirt. It’s not just the equipment it’s the WILL. Even having home exercise equipment within farting distance doesn’t help…… I know most convenient ways and effective ways to shed weight but the lack of will power to implement them keeps me flubbery lol

Author: wizardjks [away for real life socializing]

Most of us don’t have a whole room we can set aside for exclusive use as a gym. We need home exercise equipment that we can tidy away when it’s not in use but that doesn’t take forever to set up when we do want to use it. Thankfully, there’s a lot of that on the market these days.

Cardio Home Exercise Equipment for Home Use

Cardio-vascular exercise is the type that makes you breathe hard and break out into a sweat. Whichever cardio vascular exercise you choose, you need to do it for a minimum of half an hour a day to have significant health benefits, but you can break this up into a few shorter sessions if you prefer. Bear in mind, though, that you will need to warm up and cool down each time to avoid potential injury or strain or just stiffness the next day. This means, a 10-minute session might include two or three minutes at the beginning and end when you are not working hard enough for it to count as cardio. For this reason the most time-effective way to do your cardio is in a single session.

You can use stairs or a low bench to do your cardio just as well as you can a machine, but not all of us can put the strain on our knees that this usually entails. So a low-impact machine can be a godsend. Treadmills are lower impact than running on a pavement but elliptical exercisers, bikes or rowers are even better. Moreover, most of them also measure the number of calories you burn, which is great as an incentive. Start off with a 10-15-minute session each day or every other day if you prefer, so that you ease yourself into the habit and you’ll find it much easier to stick with the regime than if you start too hard and fast.

Weight or Resistance Training at Home

To really improve the look of your body, you will need to do some resistance training in addition to the cardio. You can begin without special home exercise equipment for this, by using your own body weight, which is a safe option, as long as you adopt the right position for all exercises. There’s plenty of advice on this online. Curls, the safe alternative to sit-ups, are great for stomach muscles. Push-ups work the chest, arm and shoulder muscles, and leg lifts or squats are sufficient for most people to achieve strength improvements to the legs in the first instance.

Combine these two forms of exercise you will find that you don’t need any home exercise equipment. Doing cardio as often as you like but having one day off a week and resistance work every other day, and you will see results in no time at all.

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