During the Covid pandemic people around the world were forced to isolate and fundamentally alter their lifestyles. Patrons of local health clubs were forced into creative ways to develop home versions of their favorite exercise routines. A surge in demand for fitness equipment around the world sent supplies into backorder for almost all manufacturers. For months people were unable to acquire dumbbells and essential fitness equipment until supplies slowly returned to inventory. Now, inventory has mostly normalized and fitness enthusiasts can acquire the equipment needed to elevate their home gym experiences. Despite great advances in home gym equipment, there are certain situations that are best served by professional grade versions. Nonetheless, you can still produce an excellent workout and acquire an amazing physique in the comfort of your home, at your immediate convenience, and at a fraction of the cost for the professional grade machines.
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Big Box vs Home Gym
The big box gyms are wonderful establishments that offer access to professional equipment at market rates. Their business model is designed for the masses. A common frustration at these establishments is ‘equipment hogging’; customers compete over limited equipment, don’t efficiently share, and don’t clean-up their perspiration after use. Another common complaint, but not ubiquitous, is machine maintenance. Some big box gyms are so focused on customer volume (sales volume) that they overtax the equipment. With enough time, the equipment begins to degrade, and unfortunately not all establishments have the funds to replace the expensive equipment. If you can coordinate your schedule around their low-traffic times per day, and if they maintain their equipment, you can have professional equipment at your disposal every day. However for many that is not the case, nor is it the most convenient.
Home gyms surged in popularity during the Covid pandemic for lucid reasons. People were forced to isolate themselves for weeks. Those that already possessed home gym equipment were fortunate enough to have everything at their disposal, but many did not. Many people were forced into creative ways to develop home versions of their favorite exercise routines. As the popular proverb states “Necessity is the mother of invention”; the weeks following the Covid lockdowns inspired a wave of new on-demand fitness programs and creative home fitness exercises using everyday furniture. Fast forward a bit, and now it’s not uncommon for people to have some existence of a gym within their home, and rightfully so. Home gyms are far more convenient than the alternative. You can engage in exercise at any time of the day, thereby bringing a higher degree of convenience to your life than ever before. With the cornucopia of on-demand training platforms led by accredited instructors, and new consolidated or low-footprint equipment designed for home use, we can produce an excellent workout and acquire an amazing physique in the comfort of your home.
Home gyms surged in popularity during the Covid pandemic for lucid reasons. People were forced to isolate themselves for weeks. Those that already possessed home gym equipment were fortunate enough to have everything at their disposal, but many did not. Many people were forced into creative ways to develop home versions of their favorite exercise routines. As the popular proverb states “Necessity is the mother of invention”; the weeks following the Covid lockdowns inspired a wave of new on-demand fitness programs and creative home fitness exercises using everyday furniture. Fast forward a bit, and now it’s not uncommon for people to have some existence of a gym within their home, and rightfully so. Home gyms are far more convenient than the alternative. You can engage in exercise at any time of the day, thereby bringing a higher degree of convenience to your life than ever before. With the cornucopia of on-demand training platforms led by accredited instructors, and new consolidated or low-footprint equipment designed for home use, we can produce an excellent workout and acquire an amazing physique in the comfort of your home.
Home Gym Equipment
Advances in technology now provide consumers more options than ever before. Equipment manufacturers are designing home gym products with space consumption in mind. A great example of this is the popular adjustable dumbbell product that offers the user variable weights in a single dumbbell; effectively consolidating an entire dumbbell rack into a single pair of dumbbells and netting the cost savings as well. Below is simply our recommended list of products to kick-start your home gym setup. You will need at least one of each category to complete the below program. The Dumbbell Stand may be optional, but will save your back and is very convenient.
Home Fitness Program
The market is now saturated with fitness programs and on-demand videos, with some being better than others. We reviewed several on-demand platforms in the U.S. consumer market and tested for several weeks to produce what we believe is the best home fitness program for advanced fitness.
The below advanced fitness program is an amalgamation between The Working Professional’s Guide, and specific high-yielding material from two of the industry’s leading practitioners: Jillian Michaels and Jeff Cavaliere. We referenced the best of the best to engineer a custom program that is capable of producing an impressive physique in the convenience of your own home.
The below is an example. Please feel free to adapt to your needs.
* Active Recovery = any activity that involves the full body.
The below advanced fitness program is an amalgamation between The Working Professional’s Guide, and specific high-yielding material from two of the industry’s leading practitioners: Jillian Michaels and Jeff Cavaliere. We referenced the best of the best to engineer a custom program that is capable of producing an impressive physique in the convenience of your own home.
The below is an example. Please feel free to adapt to your needs.
* Active Recovery = any activity that involves the full body.
Resistance Exercise Days
The resistance days will stress your body to develop muscle, tone, and stronger capacities. The exercise drives a full body conditioning experience that addresses all of the major muscle groups. It is designed to complement the other exercises in the weekly schedule, for the efficacious outcome of long-term fitness success.Day A
Target Reps: 8 - 12Day B
Target Reps: 8 - 12Day C
Target Reps: 8 - 12Important Note
It’s important to remember that this information is intended as a framework. The framework can easily be modified to suit your needs and daily agendas. We encourage you to first adopt, sample, and then adapt this framework to your needs or preferences.
⚠ While the following information has been personally tested, we do not claim to be certified medical practitioners. It is always recommended to consult your doctor prior to experimenting with any new products or health practices.