August, a fantastic time to introduce something new to your health and fitness regime. Below we have some amazing ideas to change up your workout routine and make it more efficient. We have a number of products that we recommend to help with progression of many exercises, particularly body weight exercises – perfect for calisthenics fans. We also added a quick tip for those looking to reduce the impacts of carb-heavy meals, or any meals in general. This quick tip can benefit the health of anyone who wants to follow it.
5. Ankle weights
Ankle weights are sometimes the only way to add resistance to some exercises, particularly some ab exercises. If you are looking to improve your core strength with these exercises than it could be worth the investment into some ankle weights.
4. Skipping rope
Not just for school aged kids and boxers, skipping is a fantastic fitness exercise for everyone. It is a fun way to improve your cardio and muscular endurance especially in your calves. There are many ways to change up the variety of your skipping to keep it fun and enjoyable, you can do crossovers and double unders. You can also easily have some friendly competition with your friends.
3. Sleep mask
Want to improve your sleep? One of the most important thing you do each day to stay alive is sleeping. So many essential processes in your body require sleep, from retaining memories and learning to cellular waste removal processes. Without quality sleep these operations can’t occur and your body will suffer. If you don’t have full control of the lights in your sleeping environment, a sleep mask can assist in getting some better sleep and improve your life.
2. Weight vest
A fantastic addition to any fitness enthusiast’s equipment, especially those interested in calisthenics. They allow you to add some extra resistance to many conventional body weight exercises. They can also be used to add weight for loaded carries or rucking, which are both great ways to supercharge your conditioning and burn some calories.
1. Gymnastic rings
The king of calisthenics equipment. So many exercises can be performed on gymnastic rings, as well as many difficult progressions of conventional exercises. With just this one piece of equipment you can exercises almost every muscle in your body. You will also get incredibly strong and have great stability, due to the rings requiring a lot of stabilizer muscles for all exercises.
Hopefully you can find something new to update your health and fitness regime! Let us know if there is something that has really changed your health and fitness routine and we will investigate it!