Home fitness equipment reactor

Let every penny you spend not turn into scrap metal gathering dust on the balcony.

You may not believe it, but when I first stepped on this trap, my intestines were filled with regret. In 2021, I followed suit and grabbed a pair of 30kg adjustable dumbbells for more than 2,000 yuan. At that time, I patted my chest and said I wanted to train Peng Yuyan's back. However, after practicing for two weeks, I found it troublesome to change weights, so I stuffed them under the bed for half a year, until I later practiced Sanhe with the veterans in the strength area. I needed to switch weights frequently before I remembered this. I wiped it clean and found that it just suited my training rhythm. At that time, I vaguely felt that buying equipment was not a matter of "the more expensive, the better" or "just buy it when others say it works." You have to have your own judgment logic.

The online debate about home fitness equipment has never stopped. The two groups have been arguing for almost ten years, but neither has convinced the other. The minimalists say that a yoga mat and two elastic bands are enough for home fitness. Anything more is an IQ tax. I know a little brother who practices street fitness. He lives in a 15-square-meter rental house and does not even have dumbbells. He usually uses two 5-gallon barrels filled with water to practice deadlifts. His latissimus dorsi is wider than that of many people who go to the gym three times a week. He always says, "Equipment is what makes you move, and what is piled up is called waste." Equipment enthusiasts will definitely roll their eyes after hearing this. My little boy, who lives on a 200-square-meter flat, dedicated a 10-square-meter room to a mini fitness room. It is full of adjustable bench presses, folding gantry racks, and water-resistance rowing machines. He doesn't go to commercial gyms to grab equipment at all on weekends, and can train all parts at home. After calculating, he saves a lot of annual card money, and the equipment utilization rate is stable at more than 90%. It is really unjustifiable to say that he is wasting money.

In fact, both sides are right. The core of the difference is whether they have set up their own "reactor" logic. To put it bluntly, this thing is a bit like trying on clothes before you buy them. You can't just see that the model looks good in the clothes and just place an order without even looking at your own size, right? For my friends who want to buy an elliptical machine in the past six months, I ask them to do a "pre-reaction test" first: for 7 consecutive days, take 30 minutes a day, stand on the open space where you plan to put the elliptical machine, and either run in place or follow the video aerobics. If you can persist for 5 days in 7 days, I will place an order. , just such a simple step, at least helped three or four people save thousands of wasted money - after all, many people buy elliptical machines not for fitness, but to make up for the anxiety of "I want to exercise". It really makes them feel tired after standing for half an hour. Isn't it just a rack to hang clothes?

There is no need to rush to idle equipment that has been purchased and piled in dust. The feedback link of the reactor is used to revitalize these idle equipment. Last month I cleaned up the balcony and found a dusty yoga mat. I always thought it was useless for strength training. I originally wanted to sell it second-hand, but I found an advanced tutorial on using the yoga mat to practice core. After trying it twice, I found that it just makes up for my weak core. Now I have to roll on it for 15 minutes after every strength training, and the utilization rate is higher than my dumbbells. You can also take 10 minutes every month to check out the equipment at home: if you use it less than 3 times this month, either find a new way to use it and incorporate it into your training plan, or simply make room for it. Don’t always think about “just in case you need it in the future.” By the time you need it, new models may be available.

Of course, some people think this thing is too troublesome. The purpose of fitness is to have fun, and there are so many rules to restrict your hands. It is better to buy whatever you want and just spend the money and be happy. I completely agree with this point of view. I have a friend who is a collector of fitness equipment. He has various limited-edition barbell plates and co-branded training benches at home. Even if he doesn't use them at home, he is happy to look at them. To him, these things are essentially fitness-themed figurines, so this set of reactor logic is really useless to him, and there is no need to apply it rigidly.

To put it bluntly, this thing is originally a folk method played by ordinary bodybuilders. There is no unified industry standard, and there is no need to follow other people's templates. After all, the core of fitness has always been "moving." If you always struggle with what equipment to buy and whether to get a complete set, you are putting the cart before the horse - after all, you can't expect to buy a treadmill at home and the fat will leave home on its own, right?