Everything you need for a healthy new year at home
Everything you need for a healthy new year at home
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1/12 FITT Cube
£129.99
A clever gym-in-a-box, the Fitt Cube incorporates resistance bands, a twisting seat for core exercises, a mini stepper, grips for push-ups, a plyometric (jump training) platform and more, all in a cube that measures around 40cm on each side. HIIT (high-intensity interval training) promises 15-minute-workouts with more than 100 exercises to target every muscle. -
2/12 Peloton bike
£1,990 plus £19.49 a month
Less a static bike, this is more a private spin class. You pay a monthly subscription and get unlimited access to 14 daily live streamed classes plus a growing library of classes on demand, all with performance tracking. The bike features a large touch screen and a near-silent belt drive. You subscription also includes running, boot camp, floor, yoga and more. -
3/12 Everlast 20kg rubber
£69.99
These free weights aren’t just colourful, they’re finished in rubber, making them much quieter for home use than plain old metal weights. So, with no discs clinking together and less noise when they touch the floor, they're perfect for London living. The rubber finish also means they won’t rust. The barbell set features pairs of 1.25kg, 2.5kg and 5kg discs. -
4/12 NutriNinja Personal Blender with FreshVac
£129.99
This blender sucks, literally. The next big trend in blenders is vacuum. Assemble your smoothie ingredients or protein shake mix, then use the battery-powered pump to suck out the air before blending. Removing oxygen cuts oxidation, preserving not just nutrients but also colour and flavour. Your drink will stay healthy for longer, as will you. -
5/12 Boxx
From £9.99
You don’t have to brave an intimidating specialist gym to get into boxing. Boxx online workouts mean you can practise shadow boxing and footwork at home in a series of videos providing workouts of varying lengths and focus. There’s also a yoga channel and nutrition advice and recipes. -
6/12 Fermented by LAB subscription box
From £24 a month, plus delivery, available as a one off purchase or as part of a monthly subscription.
Gut health is an obsession of many a wellness freak with probiotic-rich fermented foods the snack du jour. Fermented by L A B is a fermented food and drink monthly subscription box of selected organic fermented, seasonal foods, from flavoured water kefirs to sauerkrauts. -
7/12 Healthy home coach
£89.99
If London’s poor air quality forces you indoors to exercise, well, you may not be comforted to discover that the air quality in your home may not be that much better. The Healthy Home Coach promises to monitor and analyse air quality, humidity, temperature and noise in your home. If one of these variables exceeds the threshold recommended by the US Environmental Protection Agency, Healthy Home Coach alerts the user on their smartphone and provides recommendations on how to improve the home environment. -
8/12 Define Barre online package
Define cardio bundle pack, £34.99
Boutique fitness studio Define London offers what they describe as New York-style barre fitness in their central London studio. If you can't make it to their Fitzrovia location you can still try one of their challenging barre workouts at home, with an online package of fast-paced video routines. -
9/12 TRX Home2System
£159
Suspension training is possible outside the gym. The TRX Home2System allows users to sling the anchor over any door in your home that can be fully closed to perform a full range of bodyweight exercises. The system also comes with a year’s free access to the online video workouts on the TRX app and is packed in a compact pouch, meaning it can be easily taken on holiday or to the park should winter ever end. -
10/12 HPE clothing boxes
Women's subscription box from £36.66 per month
If you’re working out at home of course it’s plausible that no one beyond the cat will see you but it’s certainly motivating to wear something more stylish than your laundry day leggings and baggy t-shirt. Reward or motivate yourself to get in shape with new gear delivered to your door. The HPE box, includes a choice of sports bra, top and leggings delivered in a cool gift box. And once the weather improves you’ll be able to wear it outside too. -
11/12 Let's Bands
Powerbands Set MAX, £36.50
Versatile and compact, Let’s Bands are the ideal home gym equipment for city dwellers with minimal storage space. The three different coloured bands offer varying degrees of tension, while the Powerbands Set MAX also comes with access to the online training platform. -
12/12 Upright Go
£69.99 Posture training is no longer the preserve of Victorian school mistresses wielding wooden rulers to punish curving spines. As a generation of smart phone addicts and screen workers falls victim to the perils of ‘screen slouch’, it seems appropriate that there’s a technical solution on hand to get us sitting up straight. The device records your posture throughout the day via the Upright Go app and shares tips and feedback to help you improve and sustain good posture.
With the festivities of Christmas now behind us, we're all feeling more sluggish and bloated, but even more motivated than ever to hit the gym. However, this can be costly.
And while a run in the park may be free of charge, with January's short, dark, damp days, it’s certainly not appealing.
Luckily, the home workout and wellness scene is thriving thanks to new technology, food trends and online subscription services, all of which come out cheaper than most monthly gym subscriptions.
Between online workouts, streamlined wearables and minimalist equipment, you can rest assured you won’t be adding bulky clutter to your small city space too.
And with the ability to measure and analyse your activity — right down to those all-important sleep patterns — as well as access to the healthiest food and drink, who needs an expensive personal trainer or nutritionist?
Even better, you won’t need to leave your house to buy your new gear as it’s all available for online purchase.
Scroll through the gallery above to see the best home fitness gadgets, equipment, food boxes and clothing to get 2019 off to a healthy active start, without leaving your living room.
