How to choose fitness equipment?

Now fitness has almost become a trend, and many young friends are doing fitness. In fact, fitness is not just for having a perfect figure, more importantly, it can help us exercise and improve our overall body quality. Many friends do fitness at home, and the choice of fitness equipment has become a problem for many friends. So how to choose fitness equipment?

When choosing sports equipment, you should not only consider whether it is of great help to your health, but also your own needs. For example, if you don’t exercise your arms often, you can buy some sports equipment that is helpful to your arms. These are common selection principles.

Supine Board

Sit-ups are an exercise that many people are very familiar with. When doing sit-ups, most people have to hook their feet on something so that they can use their waist to exert force to complete the movement. Therefore, when practicing at home, it is appropriate to spend one or two hundred yuan to buy a supine board.

Do sit-ups to exercise the six abdominal muscles and quickly burn abdominal fat. You can also do push-ups, push-ups and other exercises to strengthen your upper limb strength. Since the supine board is small in size and light in weight, it is easy to move and occupies little space.

Generally, the height of the sit-up board can be adjusted. The higher the height, the greater the intensity of the sit-up. When you first start, start from the lowest point and gradually increase the height. After about a month of training, you can try to go up a level.

But the height cannot be too high. For ordinary fitness enthusiasts, 40 to 45 degrees is enough.

dumbbel

Dumbbells are cheaper and take up less space than bench presses. Be careful to choose dumbbells of appropriate weight. Generally, you should choose dumbbells with a load of 65% to 85%. For example, if the maximum weight you can lift each time is 10 pounds, you need to choose dumbbells weighing 6.5 to 8.5 pounds for exercise.

There are many types of dumbbells, and it is recommended that you buy one with adjustable weight. When you want to practice strength, you can choose heavier dumbbells. Most women practice dumbbells for body shaping, so they can choose small dumbbells. Dumbbell exercises with small weights and multiple repetitions can not only shape the body, but also practice muscle endurance and burn fat at the same time.

Dumbbells can not only exercise the upper limbs, but also the lower limbs. You can hold the dumbbells with both hands and do lunges. You can squat while walking, or you can squat in place. You can also run with dumbbells, do chest expansion exercises, aerobics, etc.

The above is some introduction on how to choose fitness equipment. If you want to exercise at home, you can use the above introduction as a reference. However, you need to be reminded that after buying fitness equipment, you should not exercise excessively. You should increase the intensity slowly and do not start super-intensive exercise at the beginning, as this will be difficult for the body to bear.