Home fitness equipment

Ordinary people don’t need to assemble a complete set of home fitness equipment recommended by Internet celebrity bloggers. Pick 2-3 items that suit their own exercise habits and living space. The effect is far better than the IQ tax piled in the corner gathering dust.

I was tricked by a fitness blogger last year and spent a small sum of five thousand to put together a "home fitness family portrait", from widened yoga mats, adjustable dumbbells, folding bench presses, to elliptical machines with screen projection functions, a full set of elastic bands, and even professional-grade fascia guns that are said to be able to deeply relax. As a result, I now have three down jackets and two scarves hanging on the elliptical machine, and the bench press is usually used to stack laundry. The only commonly used fascia gun has recently been used by me to massage my stiff shoulders due to sitting for a long time.

Don’t laugh, many of my friends have fallen into this trap, and the fitness circle has been arguing about what equipment to buy for home for almost three years, but there is still no unified answer.

I have been practicing powerlifting for four years since I was a child, and now I train at home at least five times a week. He rented a 60-square-meter apartment and moved half of the wall to put an adjustable bench press rack and barbells. He spent almost 8,000 on it. He has a reason: the annual membership to the gym near my home is more than 3,000, and it takes 40 minutes to go back and forth. After practicing at home for a year, I can make back the money. Moreover, his body fat has dropped from 23% before to 13% now, and the dimension of his arms has increased by almost 8cm. It is really worth the money. But he has been in a trap before. At first, he bought a set of fixed-weight dumbbells for cheap. After practicing for three months, they were no longer enough. He could only buy them at half price. Later, he changed to adjustable dumbbells and saved a lot of money.

There are also those who don’t touch big equipment at all. My colleague Xiao Ai usually practices Pilates to improve her rounded shoulders and hunchback. She only has three things at home: an 80cm wide natural rubber yoga mat, a pair of 1kg plastic-impregnated small dumbbells, and a 30cm foam roller. The total is just over 300. She practices for forty minutes every day after get off work following the B station video. After practicing for more than half a year, the cervical spine and mild lumbar protrusion that were previously painful from sitting for a long time have been relieved a lot. She had followed the trend and bought some leg slimming rings and massage machines, but now they were gathering dust in the storage room. When talking about them, she complained: "Those fancy ones are really not as useful as a non-slip mat." ”

Oh, by the way, the most controversial thing right now is whether aerobic equipment is an IQ tax. Some people say that the elliptical machine and treadmill turned into a clothes drying rack within three months of buying it. Others say that they lost 20 pounds in half a year by doing aerobics at home. To be honest, it really depends on the person. My cousin lives in the Northeast. In the winter when it is minus 20 degrees Celsius, he can't go out. There are no suitable indoor gyms around the community. He spent more than 2,000 to buy a foldable elliptical machine. He uses it for 20 minutes every morning. He has actually lost 18 pounds in half a year. Now he still uses the machine every day, even if his parents have nothing to do, he has to use it for ten minutes. But if you are a three-minute hot person and want to slump on the sofa and check your phone when you get home from get off work, then really don’t spend this wasted money. If you really want to move, wear a pair of sports shoes and run downstairs for two laps, or even stand in place with your legs raised to lose weight.

When buying, don’t be greedy for those fancy features. A treadmill with a touch screen that can watch TV shows is almost three thousand more expensive than the basic model. It makes you pant like a dog when you run. How can you bother to watch TV shows? Just put your phone on the holder and watch it. Also, don’t buy that kind of yoga mat that costs 9.9 yuan with free shipping. It’s as thin as a layer of paper. It hurts your elbows when you stand on a plank. The surface is as slippery as an ice rink. When I was doing downward dog pose, I fell down and squatted on my butt. It hurt for three days, but it was not worth the gain.

I only have three pieces of fitness equipment left at home: a thickened TPE yoga mat, 5-20kg adjustable dumbbells, and a peanut massage ball. The total is less than 800 yuan. It is enough for shoulder and back training, core training, and stretching and relaxation after practice. On the contrary, the number of exercises per week now is twice as much as when I had a room full of equipment. To put it bluntly, equipment is always auxiliary. If you are really willing to move, a mineral water bottle can be used as a dumbbell. If you are unwilling to move, it will be useless even if you move the entire gym home.