I was thinking a small treadmill, but I can just go outside most of the time, and I don’t really want to walk inside.

  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Put the money back in you pocket and use YouTube and the muscle wiki to do a combination of body weight training and yoga.

    If you gotta buy something, get a good workout mat, sneakers, and wireless headphones.

    Some personally experienced and psychologically supported things to consist

    • Unless you’re getting into serious weight training, marathon running, or a very specific physical shape, any large purchase is just going to exist as a guilt bank if you don’t get the results you want out of it.
    • Any machine you get is going to fail you if you don’t have proper form and thus either hurt your progress or body if you don’t spend enough time up front getting that form.
    • Are you making this your passion? Most people work out for a goal and when you hit that goal you’re going to find it a lot harder to justify the space the equipment takes when you’re working out for maintenance instead of progress.

    On the counter to that, body weight training uses nothing, can be done everywhere, and focuses on form. Combining it with yoga and you either get a perfect rounded workout that will get your results with minimal recovery time, or you will figure out where you need the most help while building that form you need for a machine. Then you will already know what you need to buy and have an understanding your body instead of the advice of a pool of strangers who don’t know you, don’t know what you need, and don’t know what you’re expecting.

    Personally, after that I’d use the money for a local martial arts program, which will also give you a support community to encourage you to keep working at it.