Putting together affordable at-home workout equipment for beginners can be done pretty easily.
When you’re just getting started it’s important to find affordable at-home equipment. But it’s also important that you get high quality equipment, because you won’t be a beginner forever. Or have your equipment fall apart.
How to choose affordable at-home workout equipment
These days there are actually only a few brands that we buy our equipment from. We always start our search at Rogue Fitness. Rogue is a brand that makes great equipment for beginners and advanced athletes.
You can also find high quality equipment on Amazon, but you have to be a little more picky.
Where Beginners Should Start
The first things you should buy in your affordable at-home gym setup are dumbbells and bands. These will set the foundation for the rest of your workout equipment.
So, let me share what I think are the best, and most affordable.
At-Home Dumbbell Setup for Beginners
From the start of your at-home workout equipment buying you should have a vision. Will you want multiple sets of dumbbells, which will allow you to do a wider variety of workouts… Or, will you want to save space by getting an adjustable weight set of dumbbells…
Most beginners (when buying workout equipment) start with an adjustable dumbbell set but end up regretting it down the road. This is because although an adjustable dumbbell set seems more affordable for an at-home gym, they end up being less durable.
That’s what I suggest starting with individual sets of rubber hex dumbbells. UNLESS you only have a very small space for your workouts.
Rubber Hex Dumbbells – $20-$455
The price for dumbbells is based on their weight. Here’s the ideal beginners weight setup.
2×15 pound dumbbells – $60
2×25 pound dumbbells – $90
2×35 pound dumbbells – $125
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The affordable at-home workout equipment for beginners will want to start their at-home gym with at least 2 pairs of dumbbells. A heavy pair, and a light pair.
It is possible to find more affordable dumbbells on Amazon with free shipping by clicking here. But you might have to search around for the sizes that you want.
If you are uncertain of the weights that you want to buy… Remember that you can use one dumbbells at a time effectively cutting the weight in half. And a good beginners workout program will accommodate for this possibility. We got you!
Affordable Workout Bands
When you are building your at-home workout equipment I like to have 2 different kinds of bands available. And the cool thing is that bands are very affordable!
Workout Bands from Amazon – $20-$30
These workout bands from Amazon are a great place to start, and I still use these to this day. But I would suggest also building up your Rogue Monster Band collection. As they are much more durable, and provide a better feel when adding resistance.
Buy Workout Bands from Amazon here
Rogue Monster Bands – $17-$80
If you only wanted to buy one kind of workout bands… The Rogue Monster Bands are the way to go. I would recommend buying…
- 2 Red Bands – $24
- 1 Blue Band – $17.25
- 1 Green Band – $22.50
- And you could go with 1 Black Band if you plan to do a lot of band work – $28.50
Where to go next
As someone looking for affordable at-home workout equipment for beginners, you’ll want to get started with the 2 sets of dumbbells and a set of Amazon workout bands or 4 Rogue Monster Bands, and starting working out.
Then the next thing I would buy is a high quality workout mat. Like the Rogue Individual Mat by Dollamur. We have two of these mats, and they are GREAT for just about anything you’d want to do on the floor.
If you decide to continue building out your at-home gym… Checkout our extensive post called the At-Home CrossFit Gym Buyers Guide.
Questions about this
I would love to hear from you in the comments below or via email at joe@thegetbetterproject.com.