7 Essential Weight Training Equipment

By Suzie Parker

Weight training is in my eyes the best exercise there is - it boosts your metabolism that you burn calories even in your sleep (how cool is that?) and the act of building muscle burns a ton of fat to make place for that muscles.

If you want to benefit from strength training and you want to have a pleasant weight training experience, you will need some essential strength training equipment. No matter if you train from home or you use a gym, the strength training equipment are (sort off) the same. Here is the top 7 weight training equipment that is essential for a proper weight training workout:

Weights

The first and the most important strength training equipment that you will need are weights. There are 3 different types of weights that you can consider: dumbbell weights, adjustable dumbbells and barbells. Most gyms have normal dumbbells and barbells. When you train from home I would suggest that you use the adjustable dumbbells - you use only one pair of dumbbells that can adjust with the click of a dial to different weight loads.

Dumbbell rack

If you have lots of dumbbells or you are planning to buy a few different weight sets of dumbbells, I highly suggest that you invest in a dumbbell rack. It keeps your weights neatly organized and it also ensures that you don't trip over your dumbbells that may be spread all over your floor.

Weight training gloves

Weights and weight machines can be a bit heavy on your hands and they may even give you blisters or other minor injuries. Wearing strength training gloves protects your hands from the weights and the weight machines and also keeps them hygienically clean.

Medicine balls and exercise balls

Medicine balls and exercise balls are excellent for assisting in abs exercises and for making the exercise more challenging. The exercise ball also makes all other exercises a little bit more difficult.

Gym bench

A gym bench is essential to do upper body resistance training exercises like chest presses, shoulder presses, triceps extensions, and upright row and lots other upper body and some lower body exercises. When you invest in one, make sure that you choose the one that can be adjusted to an incline or to straight.

Sit up bench

A sit up bench is not that essential but it will increase the intensity of abs exercises and will be a great addition to your home gym.

Weight training machines

Weight training machines are great because the weights of the exercises can be adjusted by a switch off a little pen. You can find lots of different resistance training machines in the gym or buy your own smith machine that has all the different weight machines combined into one system.

Use these essential weight training equipment to put together your perfect home gym that is strength training ready or use them as a guide as what equipment you will need at the gym. But whatever you do, make sure that you train with weights regularly to stay lean and healthy.

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