Are you looking for a gym and don’t know which one to decide on? This is the equipment that should not be missing
The human factor should be the main reason to choose almost any service. If you go to the hardware store with the most gender in the world but whoever serves you doesn’t know what a nut is, something will go wrong. Sorry, the ‘apps’ cannot replace a good professional. The drawback when it comes to a gym is that it is difficult to get a reliable idea of what you are going to find there, unless another person who has already been or is a client of that center gives you references.
In gyms it is not uncommon for this to happen: paying the fee to make little use of it and after two years not having noticed any improvement in your fitness, or in your physical appearance. You may even be worse. If we transfer this example to a language academy, it would be something like paying month after month to continue listening to the same lessons from the first week of classes, or even worse… Paying so that, over time, you forget words because your level gets worse instead of better.
As this situation is demotivating just to read it, all the advertising of the fitness industry is aimed at guaranteeing us results with relative immediacy. The first reasonable question is whether those methods or gym chains that sell meteoric physical changes are just a commercial hook, something that ends up in a simple slogan designed to capture an audience that they know is ‘out there’ looking for a miracle that does not exist . Dazzling the potential client with the installations is the final step, but that’s where we shouldn’t be fooled. On your next visit to join a gym, pay attention to whether these machines are the ones that leave more space in their facilities:
Your body
The most perfect machine. With it you can walk, run, jump, dip, squat, climb, go up, go down, lie down, get up, stretch, tuck, turn, rotate, roll, dance, challenge your balance, your precision, agility… everything. Your body is a gym, which is why many fitness training methods boast of using nothing else. And they are right. You just have to do it with the right technique and intensity. Does your gym have an area with enough space where you can get the most out of your own body?
a power cage
Said like this, it still sounds strange, but it is the technical way of calling a kind of metallic structure in which you can insert the supports where you can place Olympic bars, easily adapting their position or height, which will facilitate the execution of some essential exercises such as squats. , shoulder press and bench press (the bench cannot be missing, of course). At the top of the structure, you can find hanging bars perfect for pull-ups. Although a cage seen without anything assembled is a bit nondescript, we are talking about a true factory of strong people.
some dumbbells
A basic. Better if they are hexagonal so that they serve as a support base and thus multiply their options. If thinking about dumbbells immediately leads you to thinking about a bicep curl, you’re missing out on a lot of other options. His versatility is tremendous.
Russian weights or kettlebells
Without exaggeration we could say that only with a kettlebell can your fitness reach a really high level. To get the most out of it without risk, it is important that a specialist guide your steps. I recommend the academy Kettlebell Me . And another thing, do not be carried away by fear. You can’t imagine the weight that can be moved if your technique is good.
In the hypothetical case that we have a very small space (very much) that forces us to be very meticulous when choosing what to include in our home gym, this criterion would be worth it: an individual cage, a weightlifting bar, a pair of of dumbbells and a pair of kettlebells. Even missing many things, it is more than enough and the investment is less than the annual expense in a gym that you do not go to, although once again you would be missing the most important thing: the human factor, that of a professional to guide you to achieve your goals.
As a summary, we must understand that the rooms full of sophisticated machines, television screens and lights everywhere are a commercial claim that does not necessarily mean that these facilities achieve better results than a more rudimentary gym. In general, the machines in gyms (especially in the larger ones) allow people to train with little supervision while keeping the risk of injury at reasonably low levels.
