Compact Home Gym

Creating a home fitness center doesn’t have to involve remodeling an entire room in your house or investing in massive amounts of equipment. For people with space needs or those just looking for a simple alternative to extensive visits to the gym, a compact home gym may be a welcome compromise. These can take the form of free weights or all-in-one systems, along with a selection of smaller items that will help enrich the workout.

For those just seeking to improve or maintain a level of overall fitness, dumbbells in varying weights from 3 to 20 pounds can offer a very comprehensive workout when combined with an exercise ball or workout bench. With the ball or bench as your “workout area,” these weights alone can provide many different exercise options.

If strength training is the goal, barbells and a selection of weight plates will offer even greater flexibility for high intensity exercise without taking over the living room or draining the bank account. A hanging pull-up bar that can be used in a doorway and removed after exercise is an additional low-cost option. And while storage for your weights should also be considered, most weight racks can hold many different types of free weights and using one will save additional floor space.

If space is of greater concern than cost, a final possibility is the purchase of an all-in-one fitness machine. Although they don’t often come cheap, these “home gyms” are often designed to fold easily for storage and offer additional options for different types of resistance training.

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