For the most part, gyms remain closed — and where they have reopened, it is still a risky idea to visit them. The solution for many of us is clear: It’s time to move workouts from the gym to the home. Which makes this fall the perfect time to take your living space and add the necessary fitness components that can make it work for your exercise regime, and your life. Right now, Best Buy is offering some amazing discounts on fitness equipment, from treadmills to smartwatches to massagers to help bring all the benefits of working out to you and your home.
An essential accessory for fitness tracking from Fitbit, a brand you know. The great thing about a Fitbit watch like the Sense is it won’t set you back in the same way that an Apple Watch or other smartwatches will, but it’s still jam-packed with features, and it’s geared specifically towards health. It can constantly and easily help you monitor your heart, keep tabs on your stress, and can help you with sleep. It even has a feature that keeps an eye on your skin temperature. The amazingly bright display and easy OS make navigation and notification easy as can be and as a bonus, its Amazon Alexa integration puts it to work using only voice commands.
Who has space in their home for an entire dumbbell rack? Almost no one. But the Bowflex SelectTech 552 Adjustable Dumbbells keep you from needing an entire rack by being completely adjustable. Each dumbbell has a range of 5 to 52.5 pounds, which you can set easily, just by turning a dial. These dumbbells bring an entire rack’s worth of weights into the palm of your hand, and an entire gym into about 2 square feet of your living room or apartment. Also, these come with guided workouts exercise programs from Bowflex’s SelectTech app
There’s nothing better than the feeling in your muscles after a good workout, and there’s nothing worse when you wake up to aches and pains the next day. Well, the Theragun Elite was built with you — and this exact problem — in mind. It not only soothes what ails you, but gives you deep muscle treatment with percussive therapy. It’s built to knock some time off your warm-up, as well as from your recovery time after a workout. Nothing is better for your muscles than a good massage. Its Therabody app is Bluetooth ready and you can program in custom wellness routines that are built around your activity data from Apple Health Kit, Google Fit, or Samsung Health.
Something many of us miss about the gym isn’t the facilities or the classes or the camaraderie, but the inspiration we get from the music pumped into our gym or our various studios. With the JBL Boombox 2 Portable Bluetooth Speaker, you get all that great sound — with monstrous bass you can feel — with more portability and customization than you’ll find at any gym,. The built-in power bank helps you keep your other devices charged. There’s a battery that lasts 24 hours, it’s waterproof, and it’s super transportable, so — your backyard, your living room, your friend’s driveway — it goes wherever your workout takes you.
This is a cardiovascular training system that your heart will thank you for buying. With this quality treadmill, from a highly recognizable brand, Bowflex, you’ll find in-workout coaching that has features like real-time feedback and tracking that can help you achieve your goals on your personal fitness journey. This gets even easier, and more interesting, when you download the Bowflex JRNY app, which will allow you to explore dozens of virtual courses, as well as challenging and beautiful trails that will know to adjust to your running speed.
The OnePlus Buds Clip are a new pair of open-ear earbuds built around a simple convenience. They join Sony’s LinkBuds Clip in the growing ear-cuff category, but either OnePlus bud can go on either ear.
Sensors recognize how the earbuds are being worn and route the audio channels accordingly. There’s no label to check before putting them on, and the feature also works when only one bud is used.
We buy fitness bands and activity trackers to keep tabs on our exercise, but it is easy to forget to start tracking or switch modes when moving between different activities. For Fitbit and Pixel Watch users, that could soon become a lot less annoying, as Google is rolling out a major upgrade to automatic activity tracking that can recognize more than 100 types of exercise, up from just 10 before.
Google first showed off the improved tracking earlier this month alongside the Fitbit Edge. It is now coming to Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 3, 4, and 5, and Google claims the added context behind the system makes workout detection nearly twice as accurate while cutting missed activities by more than half. Fitbit Edge will support it too.