If you want more than bodyweight exercises and running/sprinting in your home work out routines, then you will need to have some sort of equipment, whether it be an Olympic weight set, a Bow Flex, a Total Gym 300, or something else.
What, if any, is the best equipment to get? Workout equipment can be very expensive, and collecting a bunch of different weights and machines can quickly cost you a fortune.
It is important to buy things that can be used for a wide variety of exercise and that can work out the entire body.
Here is what I have found to be the most valuable and versatile equipment for creating home work out routines.
Pull Up Bar Pull ups are a great upper body exercise and the variations are almost endless.
You can play around with arm placement to work out different muscles, do muscle ups if pull ups get to easy, or practice levers like you see gymnasts do on rings.
The removable pull-up bars are more versatile than ones mounted on your doorway or in your garage ceiling.
They can easily be placed in your doorway for the exercises mentioned above, or be taken down and used on the floor to double as push up bars.
You can use also practice arm balancing exercises like frog stands (it gives you a wider and more stable base for easier balancing), L-sits, and jump-throughs.
Kettle bells Kettle bell workouts are amazing.
They are incredibly intense; doing 100 swings is enough to get a workout that not only works all the muscles in your body, but doubles as a cardio workout too.
You can also use them as dumb bells for curls, bench presses, squats, and military presses.
Olympic Weight Set This is great for bulking up fast.
While you can get buff doing only bodyweight exercises (look at Herschel Walker back in the day), you can't do other power lifting moves, like dead lifts, cleans, or snatches, and power moves are essential for developing a muscular, toned physique Jump Rope Jumping rope is one of the best cardio exercises you can do.
Even Bruce Lee equated ten minutes of jumping rope to be equivalent to running three miles.
You can also add variety to jump rope routines, by throwing in some double or triple unders, cross overs, jumping in place, jumping while you run, etc.
The list is huge.
I believe these tools are enough for anybody to get started with their own home work out routines.
Over time, you may decide to get more equipment based on your fitness goals, but these should be enough for almost anybody to get started and they provide the most versatility for a wide range of workout possibilities.
What, if any, is the best equipment to get? Workout equipment can be very expensive, and collecting a bunch of different weights and machines can quickly cost you a fortune.
It is important to buy things that can be used for a wide variety of exercise and that can work out the entire body.
Here is what I have found to be the most valuable and versatile equipment for creating home work out routines.
Pull Up Bar Pull ups are a great upper body exercise and the variations are almost endless.
You can play around with arm placement to work out different muscles, do muscle ups if pull ups get to easy, or practice levers like you see gymnasts do on rings.
The removable pull-up bars are more versatile than ones mounted on your doorway or in your garage ceiling.
They can easily be placed in your doorway for the exercises mentioned above, or be taken down and used on the floor to double as push up bars.
You can use also practice arm balancing exercises like frog stands (it gives you a wider and more stable base for easier balancing), L-sits, and jump-throughs.
Kettle bells Kettle bell workouts are amazing.
They are incredibly intense; doing 100 swings is enough to get a workout that not only works all the muscles in your body, but doubles as a cardio workout too.
You can also use them as dumb bells for curls, bench presses, squats, and military presses.
Olympic Weight Set This is great for bulking up fast.
While you can get buff doing only bodyweight exercises (look at Herschel Walker back in the day), you can't do other power lifting moves, like dead lifts, cleans, or snatches, and power moves are essential for developing a muscular, toned physique Jump Rope Jumping rope is one of the best cardio exercises you can do.
Even Bruce Lee equated ten minutes of jumping rope to be equivalent to running three miles.
You can also add variety to jump rope routines, by throwing in some double or triple unders, cross overs, jumping in place, jumping while you run, etc.
The list is huge.
I believe these tools are enough for anybody to get started with their own home work out routines.
Over time, you may decide to get more equipment based on your fitness goals, but these should be enough for almost anybody to get started and they provide the most versatility for a wide range of workout possibilities.
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