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Home Gym for $100
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Diehard & Hardcore
Intensity is important when you work out at home. These items will help you sweat. Jump to List
Favorite Accessories
This is a list of my favorite non-essential, nice-to-haves. They just make my life easier. Jump to List
Cover the Basics
Home Gym for $100
Resistance Bands
Resistance bands allow you to perform strength-training exercises without weights. They are lightweight, easily portable, inexpensive, easy to store and perfect for exercising virtually anywhere!
Swiss Ball
Using a Swiss Ball (Stability Ball) adds instability to basic exercises, stimulating and conditioning your deep core muscles.
Yoga Block
These useful blocks are often used as an extension of the arms, but can also support the back, head and hips to help the body settle into a pose.
Foam Roller
The foam roller is a useful tool to actively warm up your joints, increase blood flow to your muscles and increase mobility.
Dumbbells (small barbell)
Although Dumbbells are often used for joint-isolation exercises such as biceps curls, chest flys or shoulder raises, the list of exercises using hand weights is endless.
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Diehard Equipment
Kettlbells
These intelligently engineered, highly durable tools can be used to enhance any training environment ranging from aerobic conditioning, functional performance enhancement, dance, team sports, physical therapy, and even group or family fitness settings.
TRX Suspension Trainer
The TRX Suspension Trainer can be used to improve mobility and flexibility; it allows you to unload your bodyweight while doing specific movements. By unloading some bodyweight, this tool can also add resistance and leverage to a particular stretch, helping safely pull the body to a range of motion that might not otherwise be achievable.
Plyometric Box
Often used as platforms for plyometric exercise, such as box jumps, a plyo box can also be used to perform step-ups and other lower-body strengthening exercises.
Resistance Tubing
Resistance bands and tubing allow you to perform strength-training exercises without weights. They are lightweight, easily portable, inexpensive, easy to store and perfect for exercising virtually anywhere.
Resistance Bands Wall Attachment
This door anchor eliminates the need to move the attachment between exercises. It’s a great tool that allows little to no recovery time during your workouts, keeping the heart rate spiked.
Bosu Balance Trainer
The BOSU is a fabulous fitness enhancing tool that adds stability, balance and core challenges to many traditional strength training moves.
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Useful Accessories
Hanging Ab Straps
Hanging Leg Raises are one of the best Abdominal exercises in existence. These Ab Straps allow for the overall focus to be on the core rather than grip strength.
Push Up Handles
These small handles not only allow for a deeper Push Up, but are also safer on the wrists as they allow for a neutral positioning.
Hip Circle Resistance Band
One of the best quality resistance bands available as it doesn't pinch, irritate, roll up, or snap the skin, unlike other resistance bands.
Weightlifting Gloves
Keep your hands safe and callus free by using gloves. They also offer a better grip which helps prevent slipping of weights while lifting.
Lifting Straps
These Straps allow for one to pull or dead-lift a heavier load than a normal grip strength is capable of.
Yoga Mat
Yoga mats are great for more than just yoga. They add an extra layer of padding when doing any kind of floor work.
Rotating Fan
Airflow is probably one of the most important and most underrated aspects of a home gym. Keep it fresh and cool people.
Multi-room Audio System
High quality music always improves my workout. I love the energy that comes from a bumpin sound system.
Wireless Headphones
When performing rigorous exercises, it's important to have headphones stay comfortably in your ears. Senso Bluetooth Wireless Waterproof earbuds are hands down the best value for the dollar.