Which home fitness equipment to choose?

In fact, there is no "best" home fitness equipment for everyone. What you choose depends on your current exercise stage, the space you can spare at home, and the budget you are willing to spend. You must even find out the type of exercise you can persist before you start. Don't follow the trend and buy it and collect dust at home. When I shared a room two years ago, the total bedroom was only 10 square meters. After stuffing the bed and wardrobe, there was not even room for a full-sized yoga mat. At that time, a set of adjustable resistance bands and door anchors cost just over 20 yuan. It can be used for back, butt, and upper limb exercises. It is fixed and can be used as a stretching auxiliary belt. I have been using it for almost two years. It is much more practical than the folding rowing machine that cost more than 2,000 yuan that my roommate next door followed suit. Her rowing machine takes up half of the balcony, and it became troublesome after using it three times. It was sold at half price for three months.

This does not mean that large equipment is not good. Last year, I moved to a house with a small living room of 10 square meters, and I just had enough budget. I bought a pair of adjustable weight dumbbells. The efficiency of chest, shoulder and back training is indeed much higher than that of resistance bands. My friend who practices strength also said that dumbbells are the "universal oil" for home fitness. This is true for him, but it is completely untrue for my best friend who has bad knees and only does low-intensity aerobics. She was forced to buy a pair of 1kg small dumbbells before, but she threw them away after practicing twice because her arms were sore. What she uses most frequently now is a mini stepper worth tens of dollars. She steps on it while watching variety shows for forty minutes a day. She has not tired of it for more than half a year, and has lost 12 kilograms of weight. Which one do you think is better, a stepper or dumbbells? There's no comparison at all, only the ones that fit are useful.

Oh, by the way, there is also the very controversial fascial gun. Some people say it is purely IQ tax, and some people say it is inseparable. My own feeling is that if you usually do strength training or running and jumping aerobics, and your muscles feel sore after exercise, then the entry-level model with a few hundred yuan can really help you save a lot of time to relax, and it is much more labor-saving than using a foam roller by yourself.； If you usually practice Baduanjin and take a walk after meals, buying it is really not as cost-effective as pinching your legs for two minutes after every exercise. I had tried the abdominal fitness wheel before. I saw a blogger saying that I could build my waistline in a week, so I ordered it as soon as I got excited. After I bought it, I discovered that my core strength was so poor that I couldn’t even kneel down. It had been sitting in a corner collecting dust for half a year. I gave it to my cousin who trains systematically all year round. He uses it every day now and says it is much easier to use than his old model.

Really, before choosing equipment, it is better to practice with bare hands for a week to see what kind of exercise you like and how long you can persist, and then buy accordingly. Even if you buy a non-slip yoga mat worth more than ten yuan to test the water first, it is better than moving a big equipment home to take up space when you are hot-headed. After all, the core of fitness is never the equipment, but your willingness to move.