With small tools to keep fit at home it is not really necessary to have an expensive subscription to a gym, on the contrary: with a few tools for home fitness, with a total cost of a few hundred euros equivalent to an annual subscription to a fitness center , you can organize your own gym within your home – or in the garden in the summer – and keep fit even at home by following these tips.
Save the gallery with useful tools to keep at home, and how to use them. You can also find the descriptions below in the rest of the article.
10 small tools to keep fit at home
It is not even necessary to buy large machines or equipment – for example a treadmill or a spin bike – which also represent a financial investment. For organize a mini gym that is truly effective just a few small tools are enough to keep fit at home, which don’t take up too much space, which can be put back easily, which cost a few dozen euros each and which can be really useful for keeping fit. Like these 10 essential tools that we have selected in the gallery, to which we can undoubtedly add a foam roller for myofascial massages that help loosen the muscles.
Balance board
Very useful for all jobs proprioception ed equilibrium at 1 or 2 feet, but not only that: you can sit on it to do sit-ups, or hold it to perform push-ups, always with the advantage of a little instability which helps to stimulate the muscles at a higher level deep, increasing the effectiveness of training.
The price for a balance board varies from 10 to 30 euros: an excellent investment.
> For further information: This is how we maintain balance
Fitball
An economical and indispensable home fitness tool: a Fitball, or Swissball if you prefer, allows you to do a lot of free body exercises – abdominals with your feet on the ground, push-ups and push-ups, dorsal push-ups – as well as many exercises with small tools giving the added advantage of a little instability which allows you to stimulate the muscles at a deeper level and obtain better results in less time. A decent Fitball costs starting from 15 euros, for a professional model it can go up to around forty euros. Beyond that you pay for fashion.
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Fluiball
The big news of 2015 in terms of fitness and functional training: it’s like a medicine ball, with different kilograms, but inside there is a liquid that moves, always making the training stimulus different. You can use it to do any exercise you would do with a medicine ball: squats, lunges, arm extensions, twists, pullovers and so on. The price varies depending on the size and weight, from around thirty euros up to a hundred for the 12kg one.
Foam roller
Certainly not indispensable among the tools for keeping fit, but undoubtedly useful: a foam roller offers great benefits, it is useful both for improving muscle elasticity before a workout and for speeding up recovery after the effort of a sporting activity.
An entry level foam roller for home use costs around 15 euros, professional ones for physiotherapists easily reach 40 euros.
Mattress
Not essential, but undoubtedly useful: the classic yoga mat, to be used for all floor exercises, avoiding direct contact with the floor, even the parquet at home. They come in every price and every quality, from a few euros to a few dozen euros.
Kettlebell
The tool par excellence of functional training, recently rediscovered as tool for strength development. But it’s not just used for doing the snatch or the clean sweep, the two main kettlebell exercises: it can also be used instead of dumbbells for a lot of functional exercises such as the 1-foot Romanian deadlift.
Dumbbells
No, they’re not just for pumping up your biceps: with a pair of dumbbells you can also train strength in your legs (for example with lunges, forward or backward, or with squats with the dumbbells gripped and held at your sides), the muscle tone of the shoulders and back (never heard of the Arnold Press with dumbbells), the abdominals and, if desired, also the lats. A decent pair of dumbbells costs starting from around 20 euros, a complete set can even reach 100 euros, depending on the kilos of discs you buy, whether the discs are rubberized and so on.
Pull bar
The pull-up bar, undoubtedly the most advanced and challenging of the home fitness tools in this gallery: recommended for those who are truly already experts and wants to raise the level of their training, essential for pull-ups, chin-ups and a lot of other free body exercises such as TTB abdominals, toes to bar, much loved by those who practice Crossfit or are preparing for the Spartan Race and other competitions with obstacles.
Thera Band
The elastic band par excellence, essential for all functional recovery and prevention exercises for the joints of the arms, shoulders and legs. With around ten euros or a little more you can take home a very useful and versatile ‘tool’ with which to perform exercises Of toning progressive and non-traumatic. Truly recommended for those starting a home fitness program from scratch.
TRX Suspension Trainer
Another increasingly popular tool for functional training at home or outdoors: the TRX, or suspension trainer, is used to do a whole series of free body exercises using the force of gravity and the weight of the body. You can do chin-ups, push-ups, lunges and leg squats and numerous core exercises and deep toning of abdominals and dorsals.
The original TRX Home Kit costs around 200 euros; models from other brands can cost several tens of euros less.
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2023-10-06 09:22:14
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