Your ideal gym would include equipment that matches your personal workout interests and fitness goals along with being located near your home or work. With exercise equipment designed for the home you can customize your own home gym into a world-class strength and conditioning facility in your garage or basement. Creating a home gym gives you the opportunity to workout in the comfort of your own home while performing a wide range of total body exercises and improving your overall fitness level.
Compact Gyms
Most home gyms don't have room for multiple pieces of exercise machines that are found in fitness clubs. As a result, exercise equipment manufacturers produce various compact home gyms designed to fit in the corner of any room in the house. The top rated compact home gyms allow you to perform a variety of upper body and lower body exercises to match your fitness goals. Attachments such as handles, ropes and bars can be added to a pulley system for additional exercises.
Free Weights
Free weights for the home gym starts with an Olympic barbell set with a set of bumper plates. The barbell allows you to perform upper body exercises such as the bench press or shoulder press and lower body exercises such as the deadlift and squat. Additional free weight exercise equipment includes a flat bench and squat rack along with a set of dumbbells and kettlebells. You can choose adjustable dumbbells and kettlebells to save space from buying multiple sets.
Exercise Machines
Similar to the compact gyms, exercise machines require more space but also allow more exercises. The best exercise machines will feature a built-in bench and weight stack for performing exercises such as the chest press, bench press and shoulder press. A high pulley system allows lat pull-downs and triceps extensions while the leg extension and leg curl attachment allow you to perform lower body isolation exercises.
Cardio Equipment
Cardio exercise equipment for the home gym starts with an indoor rowing machine, jump rope, stationary bike and treadmill. The rowing machine and stationary bike provide a low-impact total body cardio workout while the jump rope can be used by athletes or anyone wanting to incorporate jump training into the fitness routine. The treadmill provides an opportunity to walk or run for a weight loss program or marathon training program.
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