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POLL: Home equipment

..angel.. Posts: 5 Joined: 2005/11/25	2005/11/27, 07:57 PM I don't own ANY home equipment to work out with. My husband & I are starting the home fitness plan... and I told him that if we stick with it consistently for 1 month it should be time to buy a piece of equipment. I just don't want to be one of those people who spends a lot of money to watch something sit in the corner :) So... if you could only have 1 piece of equipment at home for working out, what would you choose?? What is most beneficial to a fitness program?
Carivan Posts: 8,542 Joined: 2002/01/20	2005/11/27, 08:46 PM You may want to start with dumbells and a bench. Relatively not expensive and easy to use. -------------- Scales are for dead weight: We are not dead yet! Still trying to find out how to do the Hollywood Free Press. Ivan Montreal Canada
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2005/11/27, 10:20 PM Good advice. As you get more advanced and you TRULY WANT A HOME GYM a squat cage/rack and an adjustable bench are very nice. The reason I stress if you want a home gym is at least in my experience some people find a gym is needed. But if you want and like the access of a home gym that is my adivce. -------------- Less Talk, More Chalk! 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2005/11/28, 08:54 AM Bands are a good starting point that are inexpensive. -------------- Food is neither friend nor foe, just fuel. You pick the quality of the fuel.
Illinifirefly Posts: 36 Joined: 2005/10/31	2005/11/28, 03:32 PM Jump rope :D -------------- Irish
shady_aftermath Posts: 13 Joined: 2005/11/25	2005/11/28, 07:52 PM free weights best thing ever for cheap but if you can afford it the bowflex is amazing for resistence training
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2005/11/28, 07:53 PM Bow flex to me is like band training....I don't think in the long run its good for your joints... I'd go with a power rack......and a adjustable bench. Some power racks even come with a lat tower. -------------- Friends don't let friends squat high... People don't reach thier true potental, only those who seek it.
shady_aftermath Posts: 13 Joined: 2005/11/25	2005/11/28, 08:01 PM free weights are better i think because power racks dont feel like the actual weights your doing
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2005/11/28, 08:03 PM a power rack....is somthing used for squats, benching, pull ups,BOR's its not a actual free weight. Some call it a squat rack/ cage wahatever -------------- Friends don't let friends squat high... People don't reach thier true potental, only those who seek it.
shady_aftermath Posts: 13 Joined: 2005/11/25	2005/11/28, 08:04 PM kk tru
shady_aftermath Posts: 13 Joined: 2005/11/25	2005/11/28, 08:07 PM free weights also help with stabilizer muscles power racks dont and it doesnt allow as much movement and you have more variety and more freedom of movement with freeweights.