It Is Easy To DoStrength Training At Home

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What a pain! Get up. Get dressed. Gather the gym clothes, find the gym bag. Scrape the ice off the car. Thread your way through the traffic. Hunt for a parking place. Dig out your gym card. Then off to the locker room to change your clothes and cram your stuff into a tiny locker. Wait for a bench. Start your workout.

Or … Get up, grab your shorts, pick up your dumbbells, start your workout.

Which scenario sounds better? Is there any question? Doing your strength training at home is way more pleasant. But is that really a good option? Probably not for a professional athlete. But for everybody else, it can be fantastic. strength training at home saves you time, gas, energy, gym fees, and frustration.

What does it take to get started? For a start, you will only need a little space and maybe a floor mat. A way to watch DVDs or online videos will be helpful, too, as many home workouts are available--often free.

Not far down the pike, however, you will want some equipment. Resistance bands/tubes are light, compact, and effective. You begin with the lightest colors and gradually acquire the darker, the stronger resistance bands as you need them. Hook storage keeps them untangled and quickly accessible.

Most likely, you will also want dumbbells, which come in graduated weights, and are sometimes sold as sets. As your strength increases, you will need an more of dumbbells and more space to keep them in.

A highly effective alternative to multiple dumbbell pairs are the Bowflex SelectTech 552 dumbbells or their bigger brothers the Bowflex SelectTech 1090s. One pair of these gives you as many weight options as at least 15 pairs of regular dumbbells. In about 20 seconds with the twist of a dial you can change to any weight. A metal clip moves to pick up exactly what you dialed. Click and go. Most non-professionals will only need this one set for all their weight training for the rest of their lives.

Barbells at home can give you a larger weight range than the SelectTech 1090s, but they take more space and are expensive and dangerous. It is easy to lose control of barbells. You need a spotter to prevent injury, and you are more likely to have one available at a gym than at home.

An incline/decline bench is required to use the barbells most safely. Of course, you can use the dumbbells and bands on a bench, too. You just don't need it for the smaller equipment.

Home exercise machines, too, exist. Sure, consider them if you have a large space and budget. Try to get a home trial option to make sure it fits you and your space. Such equipment is widely available used--consider this option, too. Remember, there can be serious maintenance costs as well as initial purchase price for such equipment.

You can do strength training at home. A gym may have more equipment, more camaraderie, more expert advice, and more motivating competition, but strength training at home is a lot more convenient, and counting gym fees, over time a lot less expensive.