Home gym equipment can fit into your wallet and your home. Or even for a workout at the office or while camping.
June 20, 2011|Roy M. Wallack | Wallack is the co-author of “Barefoot Running Step by Step.”
For those times when you can’t get to the gym — or don’t feel like breaking out your credit card to pay the membership fee — home workout equipment is essential. But as these innovative, lightweight and very portable devices show, a home gym doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg or take over the entire living room. They don’t even have to stay at home anymore.
Spin Trim: Two 11-inch plastic rings that each rotate on a handle, working your wrists and forearm
Likes: Although sort of rinky dinky and (the website video touts its “complete upper body workout” and “gyroscopic technology”), there are benefits. Whipping them around like a dime-store ninja, I began to feel fatigue in my forearms and wrists in less than a minute. Doing this for 10 minutes while watching TV stopped me from reaching for the Cheetos and got some blood flowing. To push it, I tried it while performing squats. I started to feel more muscle movement in my body.
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