What Equipment you need for a Home Gym Workout

If a busy schedule means you can’t make it to the gym or gym membership is just beyond your budget, there’s still no reason to skip a training session. Get a killer workout without setting foot outside the front door by investing in these affordable, easy-store pieces of equipment that you can use in the comfort of your home.

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1. Adjustable Dumbbells

Turn the living room into your personal weights room with a set of adjustable dumbbells. As well as giving you the flexibility to add and remove weights for a greater range of lifts, a set of adjustable dumbbells comes as one individual unit for super-easy, convenient storage.

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2. Abs Roller

A small, affordable piece of equipment that packs a huge punch, an abs roller gives you a gruelling exercise that works your abs, core and conditions the full body, as well as boosting mobility and coordination.

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3. Skipping Rope

Not just for the playground, a high intensity skipping rope workout delivers a huge cardio boost that blasts calories and will leave you gasping for breath. Even better, you can throw it in a drawer when you’re done.

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4. Medicine Ball

Developing explosive muscle power and core strength, a medicine ball allows for a full range of movement, delivering an integrated full body workout across a variety of different exercises.

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5. Yoga Mat

Providing extra traction as you move through yoga asanas and stretches, a yoga mat cushions you from hard floor surfaces and helps keep your muscles warm. It’s also useful for any floor workouts (crunches, planks etc.) Simply roll it and store it when you’ve finished your workout.

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6. Mini Elliptical

This great home-workout solution is easily portable and delivers a calorie-blitzing, low impact cardio workout in as little as 20 minutes. Adjustable resistance allows you to make your workout as easy or intense as you want it to be.

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7. Kettlebell

Combining cardio, strength and flexibility, working out with kettlebells encompasses a wide variety of exercises. As you swing, press and squat you’ll also be recruiting stabiliser muscles for intense full body conditioning.

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8. Resistance Bands

Lightweight, and easy to store away, resistance bands give you the all flexibility of a customised workouts and are a great strengthening tool for almost any part of the body. What’s more, in allowing you to focus on isolated muscle groups, this is a super-safe way for those in injury rehab to work out.

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9. Swiss Ball

The beauty of this classic fitness tool is that you can easily incorporate it into yoga, pilates and pretty much any other fitness routine - as well as everyday life. Working out with an exercise ball helps to improve core stability, posture and muscle balance, and what’s more, even just sitting on it while watching TV engages your core and key stabilising muscles – who knew working out could be so easy!

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10. Home Workout Video

Get your own private HIIT class by streaming a home workout to your device. There are loads of easy to follow, comprehensive workouts available on YouTube or as part of Amazon Prime – and many are free. All you need is wifi and enough floor space to carry out the moves.

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