How to make a gym at home and start exercising

To start exercising at home, you do not need special simulators and devices, your desire is enough. Unfortunately, it is very fragile and evaporates in the evening. How about nudging yourself a little: setting up a budget gym at home, buying and preparing everything you need for effective workouts? Plus, it will be quite inexpensive.

You promise yourself to work out every morning, but in the evenings it doesn't seem like a good idea: you need to look for exercises without simulators, create a program for yourself (although you can watch sports), and there are no particular conditions at home, not to mention the atmosphere.

But there is still a way to make your workouts at home regular: buy whatever is useful for homework. And the conversation is not about expensive simulators, but about devices that are quite accessible to everyone, which, moreover, can be easily removed after training so as not to clutter up the room.

But it's best to leave it in a prominent place so that the yoga mat or jump rope looks judgmental at you when you skip your next workout. There are only five devices, but there are a lot of exercises with them.

Prepare your practice site

Allocating a separate workout room sounds great, but unrealistic. So do not worry about the conditions, but just choose a free space in the apartment or clear some part of it for training.

There should be enough room for jumping (including jumping rope) and stretching. Check the selected spot: if you are lying on the floor with your arms outstretched above your head and do not touch anything, this is great.

It's good if there is a free wall next to it, on which there are no shelves, photographs and other decor. You can do a lot around her.

Mat or rug

Exercising on a yoga mat protects your muscles and joints - the surface is soft enough to protect you from the stiffness of wood or carpeted floors, even if you're doing cardio.

Just get the right size so that the mat covers the entire surface you are training on. Now such dense and soft rugs can be ordered at or very cheaply - at. On average, you will get from 500 to 1000 rubles.

Well, if you decide to adapt the basement of a private house with a concrete floor for a simulator, you first need to lay a thick rubber coating.

Dumbbells

The best equipment when you work out outside the gym is your body weight. And to slightly enhance the workout, you can purchase small dumbbells of 2-3 kg.

For example, fitness dumbbells cost about 600 rubles, but you can certainly find them cheaper, on the same Taobao, if you still order a rug.

Skipping rope

This attribute, familiar from childhood, is, in fact, everything you need for home cardio. For example, there is plenty to choose from.

I think there will be no problems with the purchase of a rope.

Rubber bands

With these small elastic objects, you can do exercises for different muscle groups.

They are quite inexpensive (you can order for or), so you can buy a whole set of resistance bands, with different sizes and tensions, and create a complete workout.

Foam roller

To relax after your workout, you can massage yourself with a foam roller. Here is for self-massage (the article is in English, but with pictures, so everything is very clear).

You can buy them in a store with fitness products, or order online, for example, at

That's it, your home gym is ready. Now you will have much more motivation to start practicing, and more variety in the training process itself.

Happy training!