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Top 10 Must-Have Home Gym Essentials 

Setting up a home gym can be an incredibly rewarding way to invest in your fitness, giving you the flexibility to work out on your own schedule and focus on exercises that suit your goals. Here, we’ve gathered the top 10 essential pieces of fitness equipment for a home gym, from versatile squat racks to recovery-focused foam rollers. These items offer a range of exercises and benefits, making them ideal for anyone looking to start or upgrade their home fitness journey.

Essential Item No.1

The squat rack is one of the best pieces of equipment to start off your home gym, offering a wide range of capabilities to help build your strength and fitness. With the versatility to perform various exercises—including squats, pull-ups, bent-over rows, shoulder presses, and bench presses—it’s an essential foundation for any home workout setup.

Essential Item No.2

An adjustable bench, with incline, flat, and decline positions, is a versatile essential for any home gym. Its full adjustability allows it to support a wide range of exercises, including bench presses at various angles, shoulder presses, single-arm rows, hip thrusts, and numerous arm exercises.

Essential Item No.3

This exercise bike is an excellent machine for improving your fitness in the comfort of your own home, without having to worry about the weather or time of day. It offers great benefits, such as being low impact, tracking all your workouts, and providing a reliable option for year-round use.

Essential Item No.4

Rubber hex dumbbells ranging from 1kg to 50kg provide a simple way to gradually progress your strength, fitness, and stability. With a variety of weights available, you can challenge yourself as you improve. Dumbbells also offer a wide range of exercises, including chest presses, bicep curls, overhead tricep presses, shoulder presses, goblet squats, and lunges.

Essential Item No.5

Kettlebells are ideal for dynamic, full-body exercises that engage multiple muscle groups at once. From swings and squats to snatches and presses, their versatility makes them perfect for a wide range of movements. With various weights available, you can choose the right kettlebell for different exercises, allowing you to progressively challenge yourself and improve strength, endurance, and overall fitness.

Essential Item No.6

If you're limited on space, just starting out, or mindful of your budget, the Bodyworx Home Gym is a compact, all-in-one gym with cables. This versatile piece of equipment allows you to target all major muscle groups, offering a variety of exercises. Some of the many exercises you can perform with this machine include lat pulldowns, chest flies, tricep pushdowns, cable bicep curls, and leg extensions.

Essential Item No.7

The barbell and plates come in various sizes and weights, ranging from a 5ft to 7ft bar and plates from 1.25kg to 25kg. This range allows you to enhance your strength through a variety of exercises, including the bench press, squat, shoulder press, bent-over rows, and hip thrusts.

Essential Item No.8

Resistance bands come in a variety of strengths, from light to heavy, making them ideal for warming up before your workout and for stretching afterwards. They also help build strength by adding extra resistance to exercises like squats and bench presses. Additionally, they can assist in movements such as pull-ups or chin-ups by reducing the weight load, making these exercises more accessible and allowing for gradual progression.

Essential Item No.9

An inflatable ball is specifically designed to improve your balance, stability, and posture. It can be used in a variety of exercises, such as planks and sit-ups, and is also great for upper body exercises like the bench press and shoulder press, helping to engage your core and enhance overall strength.

Essential Item No.10

Foam rollers come in various styles and densities, offering a versatile tool for recovery. As recovery is a crucial part of training, a foam roller helps alleviate muscle soreness and tightness. It also aids in improving flexibility and promoting muscle recovery, allowing you to perform at your best.

A home gym offers the freedom to train on your schedule, stay consistent, and make lasting progress. Our curated selection of essential equipment supports a variety of exercises to strengthen, condition, and aid recovery, making it easier than ever to keep fit at home. Shop conveniently online, or pop into our store to meet our team and put together your ideal home gym setup.

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