Best Men's Fitness Equipment for the New Year

I wrote last week on the best equipment for women's fitness. Now, I turn to men's fitness. I don't think men and women's performance goals should be that different, we might want to look different but our hormones will take care of that. I recommend balanced fitness for everyone.

Here are my top 4 equipment recommendations for men

• Doorway Pull-Up Bar--Pull-ups are one of the two best exercises you can do. Get a doorway bar--one store around here is selling them for $12.99--and learn to do full pull-ups (no half-reps). You will look and feel awesome.
• 60-80 lbs. Sandbag or 35 lbs. Goat Bag--You can make these yourself and use them for tons of squat, press, carry, and get-up exercises. They are cheap, real-world, and tough.
• Walker--buy one used at a thrift store and use it for dips and inverted rows. Dips are the best pressing exercise you can do (way better than the bench press), so get to it.
• Jump Rope--This was on the women's list, but it's awesome enough to be mentioned here too. Buy a speed rope at your local sporting goods store for $10. Get started doing :30 of jumps and :30 of rest for a simple cardio workout. Or throw them in a circuit with pull-ups, dips, sandbag squats for a workout that uses all four of these pieces of equipment.

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