Home fitness equipment bag

People with ordinary fitness needs do not need to buy large equipment that costs thousands. A set of stowable home fitness equipment bag with a total weight of no more than 10kg and a total price of no more than 300 yuan can cover 80% of daily needs for muscle gain, fat loss, and body adjustment. It is even more than 10 times more cost-effective than an annual membership card you have only visited a few times.

When I first started trying home fitness three years ago, I stepped on holes that could wrap around my balcony three times. First, I followed the trend and grabbed a folding treadmill worth more than 2,000 yuan. After running it three times, it became my exclusive clothes drying rack. I can hang four or five down jackets in winter. Later, I added an elliptical machine and a small bench press. Finally, the balcony was so piled up that there was no place to dry the quilts. When I was cleaning it up, I discovered that the total of my commonly used gadgets was no bigger than a schoolbag.

There are always two groups of people in the fitness circle who are quarreling fiercely. One group says that practicing at home requires no equipment at all and can train the whole body with bodyweight movements. The other group is full of equipment and wishes they could turn their home into a mini gym. I have tried both. To be fair, bodyweight training is really enough for novices. When you first start practicing squats, kneeling push-ups, and planks, your physical fitness will reach a higher level if you insist on it for two months. But once your movements become standard, the bottleneck will come quickly. Without extra load, it is basically impossible to build muscles. ； However, it is easy for equipment owners to fall into the misunderstanding that "buying means practicing". There are only a few commonly used equipment, and the rest are all decorations that take up space.

The bag I use now is about the same size as an ordinary backpack and can fit in the cracks of the sofa. The first thing I put in is an 8mm thick TPE anti-slip mat. Don’t buy the thin one that costs 9.9 with free shipping. I bought it on the cheap before. When I was doing burpees, my foot slipped and I almost split my legs. It took me half a month to get better. Now this 49 yuan one is soft and does not hurt my feet when I step on it with my bare feet. It won’t move when I’m doing a plank. I just roll it up and stuff it into the side pocket.

Then there are three sets of woven elastic bands of different weights. The light-weight ones are used for external shoulder rotation in the sitting position to improve the rounded shoulders problem that I have all year round. The medium-weight ones are worn on my thighs to do clam poses and crab walks. The soreness in the buttocks during training is much better than doing glute bridges without doing anything. The heavy-weight ones are sometimes used by me to practice pull-ups on a horizontal bar in the community, and can also be used as an auxiliary belt. I bought a transparent rubber one before, but it broke after two exercises. My thighs were bruised for three days due to the elasticity. Then I replaced it with this kind of braided one, which cost ten yuan more. It has not deformed after two years of use.

There is also a pair of removable plastic-impregnated dumbbells with a total weight of 5kg. They are usually disassembled into 1kg small dumbbells and used for lateral raises. When all are installed, the weight is 5kg, which is enough for bent over rowing and deadlifts. Someone told me before that this weight is enough for training? Damn, if you can control the eccentric contraction throughout the whole process, the effect of training with a 3kg dumbbell will be much better than those who swing a 10kg dumbbell like a pendulum in the gym. Fitness is about muscle strength, not how much iron you can lift.

Oh yes, there is also a walnut-sized fascia ball, which can be stuffed into the sandwich of the bag. It saves a lot of space than a foam roller. When I get home from work, my trapezius muscles are as hard as rocks. I roll it against the wall for two minutes, which is more effective than going to a massage parlor for ten minutes. When I wake up with sore soles in the morning, I can walk briskly by rolling it for thirty seconds. There is also a counting jump rope worth 29 yuan. When there is no one downstairs in my house, jumping for 20 minutes consumes more calories than running five kilometers. If you are afraid of disturbing the neighbors, you can also use it with a cordless ball.

Some people must have said, what if I want to practice glute bridges and chest presses? There is really no need to buy a special glute bridge stool or a bench press. You can use a dining chair or a sturdy coffee table at home with a pillow. I used to use my dining chair as a bench press bench. After three months of pushing, the size of my chest muscles increased by two centimeters, and there was nothing wrong with it. Some people also asked whether they should buy an abdominal fitness wheel? To be honest, I don’t recommend it to beginners. If you don’t have enough core strength, it’s easy to collapse your waist. I’ve suffered from this before. Later, I put an elastic band on the door handle and did a kneeling pull. The core stimulation is no worse than the abdominal wheel, and it’s safer.

Last time I went on a business trip for a week, I just stuffed this bag into my suitcase, and I could practice on a mat in my hotel room. I didn’t have to search for gyms all over the street, and I didn’t have to interrupt my training plan because of the business trip. It was very convenient.

In fact, after all is said and done, the most valuable thing about this equipment bag is not the stuff inside at all, but the thirty or forty minutes you are willing to spare to practice. If you are really lazy, even if I move a whole set of competition-level fitness equipment to your home, it will just be a few more items that take up space.