Gym Equipment for weightloss

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Fitseeker

In my opinion the best route to take with exercise and weight loss is to pick up a weight lifting routine and adjust your diet (eat less). I feel lifting weights will help you develop your muscles and achieve a better body shape overall, I also personally find it alot more rewarding than cardio. Equipment-wise a good starting point for the home would be a set of dumbbells, or if you have room/budget for it, a weights bench. Get your hands on either of these and you can google a tonne of different routines to try out.

From a strictly calorie burning perspective you could get a treadmill (or run outdoors), exercise bike (or regular push bike), cross trainer or rowing machine etc.. Anything from 15 minutes interval training to 30-40-60 mins exercise on these could burn you a couple of hundred calories on a daily or bi-daily basis. I wouldn't really see any of them as superior to the other for calorie burn, you get back what you put into them, as in the more intensely you train, the more calories you burn, so choose one you can see yourself actually following through with and using regularly if you're going to go that route.

At the end of the day weight loss will mostly be controlled by your diet, I recommend reading the stickies, working out how many calories you need to consume on a daily basis and make the relevent changes to what you're eating.

Hanley

Aquila wrote: »

What is the best equipment for sustained weightloss and why?

A healthy approach to your eating habits.

The best equipment for enhanced appearance is probably a barbell, weights, bench and rack.