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5 resources to help build your home gym

If you’re someone who decided during quarantine to convert a spare bedroom, nook, or garage space into a home gym, you’re not alone. When our favorite gyms and fitness studios closed their doors back in 2020, it created a movement to incorporate our health and wellness routines from the comforts of our own homes. Even now, with fitness studios and gyms reopening, many are opting to keep their home gym routines. With the accessibility to fitness equipment online, cutting out commuter times, and decreased risk of catching unwanted germs, it looks like home gyms are here to stay.

However, when it comes to building a workout, it can be boring or repetitive. While you can opt for fitness subscription programs, those can be expensive. Instead, try incorporating these fitness and wellness resources into your home gym and workout routine.

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One of the most effective ways to build muscle in the body, is through suspension exercises. Suspension training can be used with ropes, straps, cords, resistance bands, and equipment like the TRX. Using your own body weight to leverage dynamic movements, suspension training can work the core, upper body, and lower body giving you a total body workout. The NewMe suspension poster offers 40 different movements. Giving you plenty of variety for your next workout.
One of the most neglected parts of a workout, is the warm up and cool down. While incorporating traditional stretching is better than no stretching at all, a foam roller can provide the deepest stretch with the greatest ease. This poster from NewMe includes 40 targeted rolls and stretching exercise to practice within your own home. The benefits to foam rolling includes: loosening muscles, increasing blood flow, increased mobility, as well as preventing or recovering from injury.
Like the complimenting poster, these workout suspension cards from NewMe are an incredible tool to bring workouts on the go, room-to-room, or easily handled to craft a new suspension workout routine within minutes. A full deck, complete with 50 cards — and 50 different suspension training workouts are durable to withstand the use of repeated use and sweaty gym sessions with their moisture-resistant plastic material. Best of all, there’s no need to squint during your routine, each workout is printed on a large cards (measuring 3,5” x 5) with clear pictorials of how to carry out each move!
One of the most effective workouts when you have limited space and limited resources, is a sliding disc workout. All you need is a set of sliding discs and a smooth-surface flooring (preferably). The NewMe core sliding exercise poster is a wonderful tool to help equip you with 40 various, and comprehensive slider disc workouts that target the core, upper, and lower body — as well as total body movements. Some example exercise movements include the knee tuck and pikes on the slide discs.
A complete, and all-in-one workout card deck, the NewMe stability ball exercise card deck has 62 movements to perform that help build strength, gain muscle, recover from workouts, and stretch. One deck has 50 exercises, 12 stretches, and 6 complete workouts. Each card is easy to follow and includes step-by-step instruction with kinetic and easy to follow pictographs. All you need to perform these exercises is a stability ball and proper floor room. Some favorite movements include: stability ball side plank, hamstring curl, and ball transfer.

Whether you’re looking for a new exercise to put into your circuit, or a new routine to completely overhaul your workout, these resources, comprising of posters and workout cards,  have exceptionally detailed personal training details to assist in your routine. From kinetic explanations to dozens of workout inspirations, there is a  resource (or two) that can be helpful in building muscle, recovering from a workout, and increasing endurance — safely.

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