I was thinking a small treadmill, but I can just go outside most of the time, and I don’t really want to walk inside.
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power rack
Rowing machine.
I like this answer. Good cardio, good for the core. Full body exercise. Rowing machines the best machine imo. Also quite hard to fuck up on or hurt yourself with, in my experiance.
Lots of movement in many joints too.
Also quite hard to fuck up on or hurt yourself with, in my experiance.
Just make sure to keep the motions seperate; legs first, stomach second, arms only move at the end. Both ways (but reversed).
If you don’t actually use it then it’s really useless as a clothes rack :p
I’d be afraid of putting myself to sleep with it.
I tried a rowing machine, would never do it a second time. Now, I have bad knees, but I still thought it wouldn’t be that bad. Maybe it was a bad machine, maybe I used it wrong, maybe they aren’t for everyone.
Bondage swing set.
Great cardio but you’ll need a buddy every single time to make it work.
Or, alternatively, also work on your flexibility…
Free weights. Especially something with changeable plates and a bench. Take up the same space as a machine but allow a higher range of exercises.
Yep.
I have a handful of ancient, beatup dumbbells. So much you can do with even that.
You can also get adjustable dumbbells today, so you can add modify your dumbbells rather than needing to buy new ones.
My dumbells also become barbells. It’s crazy what you can do with adjustable dumbells.
Put the money back in you pocket and use YouTube and the muscle wiki to do a combination of body weight training and yoga.
If you gotta buy something, get a good workout mat, sneakers, and wireless headphones.
Some personally experienced and psychologically supported things to consist
- Unless you’re getting into serious weight training, marathon running, or a very specific physical shape, any large purchase is just going to exist as a guilt bank if you don’t get the results you want out of it.
- Any machine you get is going to fail you if you don’t have proper form and thus either hurt your progress or body if you don’t spend enough time up front getting that form.
- Are you making this your passion? Most people work out for a goal and when you hit that goal you’re going to find it a lot harder to justify the space the equipment takes when you’re working out for maintenance instead of progress.
On the counter to that, body weight training uses nothing, can be done everywhere, and focuses on form. Combining it with yoga and you either get a perfect rounded workout that will get your results with minimal recovery time, or you will figure out where you need the most help while building that form you need for a machine. Then you will already know what you need to buy and have an understanding your body instead of the advice of a pool of strangers who don’t know you, don’t know what you need, and don’t know what you’re expecting.
Personally, after that I’d use the money for a local martial arts program, which will also give you a support community to encourage you to keep working at it.
Any age I try to enter on different browsers only allows 13 or 100?
That’s news to me, maybe try incognito?
I think it’s some popup or aggressive filter settings.
The two ages
Only cardio machine you need is a rower - it’s full body and is different from all other cardio which is simply an augmentation on something you probably already have access to already (bike, stairs, the ground) - most don’t have a rowboat/canoe. Also a fantastic workout and my personal go-to. But you can just walk and get all the cardio you need with less wear of your joints/free.
For strength exercise, you can use a combination of bodyweight, bands, kettlebells, adjustable dumbbells, rings and a weighted vest to get massively strong. I’d recommend an adjustable bench and a strong cross bar to hang things off to do rings and pull-ups. Rubber matting also makes things a bit nicer. You can build a home gym in a couple of meters of space if that’s all you have. I say this even though I have a vast array of gym toys (rack, barbells, FT, plyo, leg sled, leg extension/curl, rings, dip bars, bike, rower, treadmill, pool, kettlebells, dumbbells, vest etc) but I started off small with just rings and kettlebells.
Whatever you are going to use regularly and not get bored with. Consistency is key.
I’m torn between rower (as lots of people here have said) and one of those pull up station racks that also has dip bars. I love rowers for the efficiency of movement and you get lots of big muscle groups at once but the first thing that got me consistently working out was body weight exercises in my local park. I started with bands on a pull up bar and worked my way up to different pull up variations.
Get the cushioning matting and use it as a general exercise area.
Get free weights, medicine balls, etc.
Do squats, press ups, all sorts of body exercises, augment them with weights.
If any machine… mount a chin up bar to a wall or get a free standing one.
Bench + weights. Cardio is easy without a machine, weightlifting is not. If you’re not into weightlifting, then yeah, small treadmills/walking pads are great.
I made it through the pandemic with nothing but a 16 and 24 kg kettlebell, and highly recommend them as the best bang-for-buck option.
Totally understandable if you’re puzzled on where to start with them, but fortunately, they were popularized in the US by a single person (Pavel Tsatsouline) who’s made a full career out of beginner-friendly instructionals. I recommend this as a starting point, but Enter the Kettlebell is also a great option:
https://www.amazon.com/Kettlebell-Simple-Sinister-Revised-Updated/dp/0989892433
Total cost: $100-150, and 3-4 sqft of storage space :).
Dumbells and a bench
If you’re set on a machine i think a rowing machine.
Does arms legs core and cardio.
Kettlebells are a very good option. I will say, however, that they’re typically more expensive than a dumbbell, and there’s very little you can do with a KB that you can’t also do with dumbbells, and you will pretty quickly get stronger, initially.
Rowing machine is my votes I’m a Concept2 fan; they make great equipment. They’re in the USA but the company is a Perpetual Purpose Trust, in Vermont, so it’s a lefty company. I’ve heard good things about WaterRowers too. You’ll be able to test a concept2 at nearly any decent gym, as they’re the standard rowing machine (and thus will last virtually forever). I recommend testing, extensively, if you can.
Treadmills, to my knowledge, are expensive if they are going to last. They’re heavy and large.
