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The Best Home Workout Equipment Personal Trainers Swear By

When gyms and fitness studios closed across the country at the start of the pandemic, many people turned to home workouts to burn energy and stay in shape. Some professional workout spaces have now re-opened, but there’s still serious interest in snagging equipment for breaking a sweat at home, whether you’ve got a full home gym or just a corner of your living room to work with.

To help you choose the best home workout equipment for your preferred type of exercise, we spoke to several certified personal trainers, a celebrity fitness instructor, a pair of triathletes and other bonafide exercise experts. Here are some of the best tools for keeping yourself in top shape, without heading to the gym.

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Best Home Workout Equipment For Total Body Training: TRX ALL-IN-ONE Suspension Training System
 
 
 
Best Home Workout Equipment For Total Body Training: TRX ALL-IN-ONE Suspension Training System

As long as you have a solid interior door, a hook screwed into a stud, or a sturdy tree branch, you can execute dozens of different exercises using TRX straps, every one of them tailored to suit your abilities in terms of strength and mobility.

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Best Home Workout Equipment For Ballistic Training: Yes4All Vinyl Coated Kettlebells
 
 
 
Best Home Workout Equipment For Ballistic Training: Yes4All Vinyl Coated Kettlebells

Plenty of people love ballistic and strength training with kettlebells thanks to the weights’ versatility. While they can be used as free weights, kettlebells can also be easily swung or handled during jumping and explosive exercises. “If you do a lot of movements like planes and snatches, and train with kettlebells more often, you’ll want to look at buying three or four weights of standard,” says Albert Matheny, R.D., C.S.C.S., co-founder of SoHo Strength Lab

$15

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Best Low Impact Home Workout Equipment: Nautilus E616 Elliptical
 
 
 
Best Low Impact Home Workout Equipment: Nautilus E616 Elliptical

Ellipticals are “good for those with knee, ankle, or back issues that find running uncomfortable or painful,” Sklar says. But, like most workout equipment, there are a lot of options to choose from. Matheny’s advice: Think about what you’ve liked using at the gym, as well as what features you actually used on it. Then, try to get the same one, or something as close to it as possible. The Nautilus E616 Elliptical Trainer uses a fitness club design, boasting dozens of workout programs and levels of resistance. It also features a Bluetooth console to sync your workout data with popular fitness apps.

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Best Home Workout Equipment For Stability: Gaiam Total Body Balance Ball Kit
 
 
 
Best Home Workout Equipment For Stability: Gaiam Total Body Balance Ball Kit

A balance ball can be a surprisingly versatile piece of equipment. You can use one to kick your planks and push-ups up a notch, and also sit on it to work your core while lifting weights. You can even use a balance ball to assist with abdominal exercises. This version from Gaiam is easy to blow up, thanks to an included pump, and equally simple to deflate for compact storage.

$19

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Best Home Gym Equipment For Strength Training: Flybird Adjustable Dumbbells
 
 
 
Best Home Gym Equipment For Strength Training: Flybird Adjustable Dumbbells

Each dumbbell can be adjusted to weigh as little as five pounds or as much as 25 pounds, with myriad incremental options between the minimum and maximum. Flybird's adjustable dumbbell effectively eliminates the need for five sets of dumbbells, saving you space and actually saving money overall.

$140

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Best Home Gym Equipment For Yoga, Calisthenics and Aerobics: Lululemon The Reversible Mat 5mm
 
 
 
Best Home Gym Equipment For Yoga, Calisthenics and Aerobics: Lululemon The Reversible Mat 5mm

With nothing more than your body and a yoga mat, you can execute hundreds of exercises, from planks and push ups to lunges and crunches to yoga poses, safely and comfortably. Jess Glazer encourages exercise using your own body as the gear, saying: “I personally believe that you can have incredibly effective workouts at home with your own body weight. Being a competitive gymnast my entire life, I know the importance, power, and function our bodies have on their own.” These mats are durable and will be a welcome addition even after studios reopen.

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Best Home Workout Equipment For Core Training: PELLOR Fitness Sandbag
 
 
 
Best Home Workout Equipment For Core Training: PELLOR Fitness Sandbag

“One piece of equipment that I like that not a lot of people use are sandbags,” says R.J. Cincottadirector of fitness with Orange Theory Fitness Long Island and a 15-year veteran of the professional training and fitness world. “They can be filled with multiple bags of sand so you customize your weight, and they can be used to accentuate so many moves. You can do squats, you can do lots of core work, you can even lay on a bench and do a bench press with a sandbag.”

$49

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Best Home Gym Equipment For Balance Training: Synergee Sliders Gliding Discs
 
 
 
Best Home Gym Equipment For Balance Training: Synergee Sliders Gliding Discs

Gliding discs like these can be used on carpeted or hard surfaces and can help with core training, strength training, and balance training, which enhances core and muscle strength in and of itself. Danielle Hirt advises gliding disc users to “activate your core by incorporating these lightweight discs into your routine. By adding a balance challenge you can increase the intensity of your workout without adding impact.”

$9

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