What to buy for home fitness to lose fat

There is really no need to stock up on a bunch of equipment right from the start. Several friends around me who just had the idea of ​​losing fat first came to order adjustable dumbbells and elliptical machines worth several thousand yuan. As a result, they were so new in two weeks that the equipment was piled on the balcony as a clothes drying rack. It was a waste of money. For most novices, an open space of 2 square meters is enough for them to stand on. If you really want to buy something, just buy cost-effective small accessories that cost dozens of dollars. It’s not too late to consider expensive and large items if you can really persist in practicing for more than 3 months.

I also made this mistake when I first decided to lose weight at home. I spent more than 2,000 on a set of adjustable dumbbells. As a result, I spent the first three months practicing Pamela's freehand exercises and Liu Genghong's shuttlecock exercises. I didn't even use the counterweights. The set of dumbbells had been sitting in a corner of the wall gathering dust for almost half a year. I picked them up when I started practicing strength. Now that I think about it, I might as well just use the 2L Coke bottles filled with water at home.

Take the most discussed yoga mat, for example. You don’t have to buy it. I have a friend who rents an old house. The bedroom is made of short-pile carpet, and it’s not slippery when I jump barefoot. After practicing for more than half a year, I haven’t even bought a ten-dollar yoga mat.； But if your home has tiled or wooden floors that are slippery, or your knees hurt when you kneel down, a dozen or so of ordinary TPE mats are enough. Don’t believe the hundreds of professional natural rubber mats sold by merchants. Novices can’t feel the difference in friction between the two, and they will still be slippery if you sweat a lot. It’s not as practical as carrying a small towel to wipe sweat.

When you can really insist on practicing three or four times a week, you will no longer feel the pressure on freehand movements, and you can slowly add small accessories. When I was at home during the lockdown last year, I first spent 18 yuan to buy two 1kg weight-bearing sandbags. I tied them to my ankles for aerobics and squats. The intensity was directly increased by a level. I lost 3 points of body fat in two months. It is much more practical than the large equipment I bought blindly before. If you want to practice strength in the future, you don’t need to buy heavy dumbbells directly. You can buy two small plastic-impregnated dumbbells for a few dozen yuan, which is enough for half a year.

There are still many people who are confused about whether to buy a smart bracelet to measure consumption. This also depends on demand. I have used a sports watch from a hundred yuan bracelet to a thousand yuan. To be honest, it is not necessary at the novice stage. The exercise consumption error estimated by the bracelet can often be two to three hundred calories. If you stare at that number and calculate, it is better to drink a cup of milk tea with 300 calories less.； If you are really worried about hurting your body due to excessive exercise intensity, the entry-level model priced at 100 yuan is enough to read the heart rate warning, and you don’t have to spend thousands to buy a high-end model. My colleague bought an Apple watch specifically for fitness, but after wearing it twice, it became too swaying and now he basically doesn’t wear it except to read news.

If you live in an old house or on a stairwell, and are afraid of disturbing the neighbors downstairs while doing aerobics, then consider buying a thicker shock-absorbing pad. A foam splicing model that costs more than ten yuan is enough. When I lived on the 6th floor, I had two floors. Even the high-impact moves of Pamela did not even come up to the people downstairs. Those professional shock-absorbing pads that sell for hundreds of yuan are really over-performing for ordinary people. By the way, don't touch those abdominal machines and shaking machines that claim to "lose weight just by lying down". They are all IQ taxes. The core of fat loss at home is to move, and the equipment is all auxiliary. My best friend didn't buy any equipment last summer. She ran in place for 30 minutes every day and used two Coke bottles filled with water for arm training. She still lost 12 pounds in three months. If you really don't have perseverance, buying expensive equipment is useless.