With the wide range of fitness equipment available in sports shops, it’s never been so easy to get your work out done at home. You don’t even need that much space.

Today I’m going to go through a number of home fitness tools that will give you an effective work out in the comfort and privacy of your own home.

Exercise Ball

The exercise ball is a great way to improve your balance and strengthen your core. There are also a wide range of exercises that you can do with one so you can target and strengthen various muscle groups. The light weight also means it can be easily lifted and stored away.

Medicine Ball

Like the exercise ball, there are a lot of exercises you can do with a medicine ball so there’s plenty of variety possible and you can work a wide range of muscle groups with one. While it is a weighted ball, the medicine ball is a lot smaller than the exercise ball and can easily be stored away under your bed or at the bottom of your wardrobe.

Resistance Bands

Very compact and easily stored, resistance bands are a great way to strengthen and tone muscles at home without using space consuming free weights and benches. A full body work out is possible with one and when you’re done you can just fold up the band and put it away in a drawer. Bands come with various levels of difficulty, so there’s something to cater for everyone.

Exercise Mat

Work your trunk in comfort by doing floor exercises on an exercise mat. The fact you can roll one up allows for easy storage and some mats come with handles so you can easily carry one around if you wanted to train at a friend’s house.

A Comfortable Pair of Runners

A comfortable pair of runners with good ankle support are vital to reduce the risk of injuries during cardio exercise. Even indoors you can still get an effective cardio training session done with minimum space. All you need is to run on the spot. Easy! You can also throw in exercises like jumping jacks, burpees or high knees (where you run on the spot and lift your knees to hip height or above) to spice things up.

Heart Rate Monitor

Your heart rate is the most accurate indicator for exercise intensity available outside of a lab setting. Keep tabs on your work out and know exactly how hard you’re working and whether or not you need to work harder to reach your goals by wearing a heart rate monitor across your chest and observing your heart rate on the accompanying watch. Heart rate monitors are available in most sports shops.

Ankle/Wrist Weights

Increase the intensity of cardio and plyometric exercises by wearing wrap around weights on your ankles or wrists. They’re small, compact and easily stored away when not in use.

And Finally, Just A Little Bit Of Space!

To wrap this article up I’ll leave you not with some cutting edge piece of home fitness equipment but with the thought that you don’t actually need all that much space to work out. If you have enough room to extend your arms out in front of you, out to the sides and behind you than you have enough room.

So there you have it. Unroll that exercise mat, dust off the medicine ball and get out your ankle weights it’s time to exercise! And you don’t even have to leave the house.