If you had $200 to spend on fitness, what would you spend it on?
It's a one-time payment. You can spend it on anything fitness or health related.
Edit: I'm not looking for recommendations, I'm curious what YOU would spend it on.
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I have $200 to spend on fitness. I don’t spend them.
Relatable, but I want to spend it once.
If there’s a secondhand store near you, I highly recommend that. A lot of people will buy, say, an exercise bike, and then sell it because they don’t use it. End result: you get something that’s practically new, but much cheaper!
Great suggestion
Maybe a fitness club / gym membership? Or depending on where you're at maybe a consult with a personal trainer or something.
Good idea
A sturdy, used, road-oriented bicycle. $200 won't get anything too fancy, but cycling is a low-impact activity that -- given the right places to bike -- is meditative, improves cardio, facilitates independent exploration, and also happens to double as transportation.
I specifically say "road oriented" because I don't want to necessarily endorse all road bikes, like the ones with carbon fibre or "Tour de France" pedigree. Likewise, mountain bikes with full-suspension sap energy away from the steady cadence ideal for a good workout, in addition to generally costing more or delivering less-than-stellar performance at low price points.
In the US? A National Parks Pass and snacks for the long hikes.
Fresh pair of climbing shoes
Are shoes important for climbing? I did consider paying for a climbing gym session
Yeah you wear specific shoes and they make different styles of shoes for different types of climbing. I pay for a monthly membership so the 200 could go to that as well ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Eyyy have you seen my woody on my profile? It was $305 so it doesn't qualify for OP's question, but I feel it's in the same spirit. Plus, I always love seeing more of my people in this corner of the internet - hello!
(I need to learn how to make instance-agnostic links)
Talk about risky click of the day lol. That thing is sick! For 300 that is awesome, you got a build process or anything?
Thanks! :D Like a tutorial? So the plywood is screwed to five wooden spines, and the spines attach to perpendicular ceiling joists using joist hangers, simpson ties, and angle iron from an old bed frame. For the holds, you pretty much get a flat surface using a miter saw, drill a hole with a drill press, shape it with the miter, and then sand to comfortize. A router can also help with shaping if you have one. I wish I had a photo album to go with this but I didn't take too many as I went. Anyway, cheers! :)
Yo that’s perfect, I’ve been wanting to put something up in my side yard and I’ll definitely try your build.
Oh snap that'd be awesome! Please let me know if you have questions, I'd be happy to help! I can always pop out and take pictures of anything you're curious about, no problem. Stoked for you! :D
Yo your $305 woody really rocks
Ayy *finger guns*
A pair of running shoes, a heart rate monitor, and bodyglide. Intro to running kit more or less
Had to google bodyglide, but these are all good suggestions
100% suggest body glide for a summer run over 4 miles
That's one specific brand, there's others out there like squirrel's nut butter, but bodyglide is the one I prefer!
Polar HR band is BTLE and ANT+ so compatible with many devices including phone and garmins.
Honestly I'd stay away from polar, both mine and my fathers polar hrt monitors basically stopped working. Don't remember what my current one is though.
I got the H10 in 2017 when it came out (my gym used them for group exercise) and it still works great.
Really depends what you’ve already got and what you want, fitness is such a vague term tbh.
I’d personally start with putting it towards gym membership for however many months.
Assuming I already had that tho, I’d buy Versa Gripps for lifting. I say I would, I actually bought a pair today…
Besides lifting I only do cycling, so prob spend on a service and new parts.
I'm not looking for recommendations so much as curious what other people would do. I'd love to hear an update on how you're liking the versa gripps after you use them for a while - been contemplating wrist straps for deadlifts myself
Almost enough to buy a water bottle
Wow, why is it so expensive? I might consider paying that much for a water bottle if it contained a magical spring.
It's titanium. That's why it's so expensive.
You can get a good titanium water bottle for a quarter of that price lmfao, it's pure aesthetics and branding
Learned something new today!
Garmin GPS watch. Mine was about tree fiddy but $200 off would be nice.
I've used credits like this on a gym membership.
I'd say get an older or refurbished Apple Watch or other fitness tracker. I got one 1.5 years ago, haven't missed a single day of reaching my daily exercise goals. My SO got one years before me but I never saw the incentive, and now we both have one, we keep each other on track. From doing nothing ever I now have at least a 5km hike or run every single day.
I have one and I agree that it's great for motivation and accountability
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Okay, my answer:
Protein powder and dietary supplements.
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I'd get a unicycle. It's been a while, but I do know how to mount and ride them.
Fun idea!
A used exercise bike for days I can't ride outside.
A speed bag. There's something about them that I just find so relaxing.
steroids
Free weights and a bench.
A really nice pair of boots that will last a long time. i already have some ok trainers but the boots I use for hiking are falling apart.
My 70ish lb kettlebell cost over 200 considering shipping D: but it’ll be worth for the gainz. If I had to spend another 200 I’d wonder if there’s a cheap bike or maybe an elliptical, which I doubt. Next stop is probably some kind of half rack that has a decent pull-up bar, because my tower ain’t the greatest
What creatine brand do you use? I want to start taking it and I'm wary of buying it on amazon.
I use crea supps creapure. I believe that all creapure is functionally identical, just 100% pure Creatine marketed and backed by some German company. Amazon feels so sketchy nowadays that I wanted something simple and not well known enough to counterfeit. Plus creapure has quality seal verification to minimize chance of fakes.
While checking for the brand I use, I now see that it is out of stock. That sucks, I will have to find another creapure soon
Danke!
Take a look Kre-Alkalyn Efx. It's a little different than the monohydrate, don't need as much and don't need to load/cycle. It works better for me.
It's very basic 🤔
Assuming:
I would buy:
For exercise I would do calisthenics and walk/hike/run.
To upgrade the kit I would get:
Reasoning:
For building good overall fitness, you want a combination of strength and endurance exercise. Calisthenics and walking/hiking/running accomplish both for someone just starting out. Exercise clothes are good but arguably optional, as you can work out in regular clothes. Adding a bicycle for combined transportation and exercise later is good, and having a device to track everything is good for understanding progress and keeping motivation high.
Throw in some hand weights with detachable plates and a couple bars. You can do a lot of strength training with a $100 set of hand weights.
Get the rest of the just dance songs I don’t have I suppose
A good soundtrack is important 🎶
I bought a recumbent bike for like $180 a couple years now and replaced my lazyboy with it. It's amazing how many kms you can rack up lazily pedaling while watching a movie.
Nice idea
A decent pull up bar and punching bag and some knuckle strapper or whatever its called (idk I punch bare hands tho I probably shouldn't ) .
Cardio sucks lol
I'd get an indoor spinning bike (if I didn't already have one). It's a really fun exercise option for any weather!
How do you make peddling fun?
Shoes/hikers
I recently got a plyo box from REC thats about that price. I'm really enjoying it so far
Probably bike parts like a Garmin Varia + maaaybe a computer.
By computer do you mean one for your bike?
Yep, tells speed, tracks trips, tells you the incline, some of them even have GPS and radar integration.
Exercise bike or rower perhaps? But I'm a fan of cardiovascular exercise.
You could perhaps get some nice running shoes and weights.
Cardio is great. I didn't know rowers were so cheap, that's a good suggestion
Personally, a rowing machine, some dumbbells and maybe a kettle ball will do me for a long time.
I sadly doubt $200 will go anywhere near that far. Maybe adjustable dumbbells could be had for $200 and would be very useful
Well, I just spent about that or more on 2 inch dumbbell handles, plates, a bench and rubber mat. So that, I guess.
Kind of a boring answer, but I think the most logical answer for most people would be to use it on their gym membership. I know I would.
Right now I’d probably snag some mack clamps and blow the rest on chicken.
A new crank for my road bike
Practical and useful
Liposuction.
A comfortable chair.
Bruh I spend more to work with a personal trainer twice a week.
Your trainer makes bank.
My arms are now too big for my favorite shirt so I'd say my current routine is working well for the gains ;) Still, I appreciate the effort you put into writing this.
I would put it in the bank and just go be active ..pickup a heavy thing and walk. Jog..hike...just do stuff.
Money is useless for fitness.
Need money for shoes though. And to travel to hiking spots.