Fitness
Prime Day Home Fitness Deals 2024: Top-Rated Equipment Is Up to 85% Off
Amazon Prime Day 2024 kicked off yesterday but it’s still running strong all day, Wednesday, July 17 (while supplies last!). While the price cuts across all the e-tailer’s categories are impressive to say the least, it’s the health and fitness deals that have caught our attention, specifically home fitness equipment. Among the savings on all things fitness, we found up to 85% off home fitness equipment. So, if you’ve been waiting for a sign to restart your at-home fitness routine or upgrade your personal gym, now is the time.
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We’re seeing incredible discounts on top-rated walking pads, rowing machines, adjustable dumbbells—even fitness-tracking Apple Watches are slashing their prices. So whether you’re a cardio person or a heavy lifter, there’s a home fitness equipment deal for you to shop on Amazon right now. Below, we’ve rounded up all the best Prime Day home fitness deals in the category, but keep in mind that prices are constantly in flux, so you’ll want to add these sales to your cart A.S.A.P.—we have a feeling they won’t last for long.
Is Amazon Prime a good time to buy home fitness equipment?
Yes! During Prime Day, Amazon is offering savings up to 92% off top-rated and reviewer favorite home fitness equipment, making it an excellent time to purchase. Just be sure to hurry, because Amazon Prime Day only lasts until the end of the day.
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Charlotte Lewis is the Senior Commerce Editor at Prevention. After a decade of working in Hollywood writers’ rooms and contributing pop culture writing to ETOnline, Bustle, TVGuide, and CBS, she underwent bariatric surgery and changed her focus to health and wellness. Previously, Charlotte was the Sexual Health & Wellness Writer for Refinery 29. There, she wrote and edited shopping content about new wellness trends, beauty launches, and sex-positive products. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend—and the love of her life, her senior dog, Rory. All three can typically be found perusing the Fort Green farmer’s market for fresh produce or curling up on the couch to watch Survivor.
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Amazon Prime Day: From treadmills to tents, get hundreds off these fitness and outdoor items
Have you been meaning to get into shape, but don’t have the right equipment? Well, Amazon Prime Day is one of the best days of the year to take the leap and buy all your fitness and outdoor necessities.
Our list of Amazon’s top fitness and outdoor essentials has everything you need to turn your home into a gym, workout outside or just relax in the great outdoors. From treadmills to tents to workout clothes, there’s something on this list for every fitness or outdoor enthusiast.
Get these items shipped to your door in 24 hours if you’re an Amazon Prime member. You can join or start a 30-day free trial to start your shopping today.
Exercise
Camping
Outdoor clothing
Outdoor furniture
Original price: $189.98
Working out while you work helps you stay more alert and keeps you healthy. The compact UREVO walking pad is small enough to fit under most standing desks and has a 242 lb. weight limit.
Original price: $109.99
Using the Sunny Health & Fitness stair stepper is an easy, effective way to get in your daily steps. This stepping machine comes with handlebars for easy balance and a more vigorous workout.
Original price: $799.99
When you want a whole-body workout, a Sunny Health & Fitness bike is a strong option. It has an impressive 300 lb. weight limit, a spot to hold your devices and a handy app so you can track your fitness progress.
Original price: $39.98
Is your preferred workout a yoga class? If so, it may be time to upgrade your yoga mat. A Gaiam yoga mat comes in a large variety of patterns and colors, and the mats are reversible. They’re durable and thick for continued use no matter how many times a week you practice at home or with a class.
Original price: $349
An Oura Ring is the ultimate fitness tracker that’s easy to wear. Made from real metals like silver and gold, the ring tracks your sleep, activity, stress, heart rate and more.
Original price: $159.95
If you prefer a more affordable watch for tracking your fitness journey, a Fitbit is the classic fitness tracker. The newest Fitbit model lets you easily connect to your music apps, Google maps and your health tracker apps.
Original price: $24.99
After exercising, you’re often dehydrated and in need of electrolytes. Liguid IVs are packed with vitamins and electrolytes. Just pour a pack into your water bottle and get the nutrients you need. They come in delicious flavors, like lemon lime, strawberry lemonade and even firecracker popsicle.
Original price $109.99
If you’re tired of spending forever unrolling and detangling your old tent, grab a two-person pop-up tent. You just unfold the tent, and it pops open with ease.
Original price $26.77
Sometimes your flashlight on your phone isn’t powerful enough to get you through the night while you’re camping, so grab a NEBO rechargeable flashlight. It has a six-hour run time and can run off batteries or charge.
Original price $757.33
An inflatable camping tent is ideal for glamping or as an Airbnb. Made from durable canvas material, this tent is big enough for a whole family. You can get an inflatable tent for nearly $300 off during Prime Day.
Original price $279
A MARMOT three-person tent is a simple, affordable yet durable option for the casual camper. It’s lightweight enough to work as a backpacking tent and is easy to set up.
Original price: $40
A pair of Huk’s fishing shorts are obviously great for fishing, but their sweat and water-wicking capabilities make them ideal for hiking, camping and day-to-day wear. You can choose from over a dozen colors and sizes up to 3XL.
Original price: $45
Your new favorite shorts will be these Columbia women’s shorts. They’re soft and flowy, making them a good choice for hot summer weather. They’re great for casual wear and working out, plus they come in plenty of fun colors.
Original price: $28.99
Stay comfortable, cool and flexible in a Nova Active workout set, complete with high-rise leggings and a sports bra. You can choose from nine different unique colors.
Original price: $48
Do you struggle with protecting yourself from the sun during the hot, humid days of summer? A Bahama shirt from Columbia can help. It has built-in UV protection and is made from an airy material for ultimate cooling.
Original price: $120
When you buy a pair of MARMOT zip pants, you get a comfortable pair of pants you can wear to the gym, go hiking in or just lounge around the house in. They’re designed to stay dry, even in bad weather, and they’re made from environmentally friendly materials.
Original price: $75
A classic pair of Adidas hoops sneakers helps when you’re out on the court or just walking around town. They’re a mid-length shoe that comes in many different colors.
Original price: $341
The only way to make an Adirondack chair more comfortable is to turn it into a rocking chair. These Adirondack rocking chairs come in a handful of colors and are made from a durable material, although they’re designed to still look like they’re made of wood.
Original price: $119.99
Anyone looking for a simple, two-seater table set will love this simple bistro set. With the set, you get two chairs and a table, all made from durable, sturdy materials, and they fold up easily when you need to store the set away.
Original price: $199.99
Want an area your entire family can sit in? This DWVO four-piece patio set comes with two chairs and a small loveseat, with an outdoor coffee table included. These sets are a simple but affordable answer to outdoor furniture.
Original price: $954.50
Fully relax outside by moving a luxury (but waterproof) couch out there. The outdoor patio loveseat from Signature Design by Ashley Clare is truly luxurious, made from beautiful eucalyptus wood. It’s the perfect loveseat for any outdoor patio style.
Fitness
Does Exercise Near Bedtime Really Disrupt Sleep? Maybe Not
WEDNESDAY, July 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Exercise near bedtime won’t necessarily wreck a person’s sleep, a new study says.
Intense exercise is typically discouraged as bedtime approaches, since such activity can disturb sleep by increasing body temperature and heart rate, researchers said.
But short resistance exercise “activity breaks” at regular intervals can actually improve a person’s sleep, compared to winding down on a couch, researchers reported in the journal BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine.
Simple, three-minute “activity breaks” involving chair squats, calf raises and standing knee raises with straight leg hip extensions added nearly an extra half-hour to a person’s sleep, when performed at 30-minute intervals in the four hours before sleep, results show.
“These results add to a growing body of evidence that indicates evening exercise does not disrupt sleep quality, despite current sleep recommendations to the contrary,” concluded the research team led by Jennifer Gale, a doctoral candidate and sedentary behavior researcher with the University of Otago in New Zealand.
For the study, researchers recruited 30 people ages 18 to 40. All participants said they typically have more than five hours of sedentary time at work and two more hours in the evening.
Each of the participants completed two different sessions in a controlled laboratory experiment, separated by a minimum of six days.
In one session, they remained seated in the four hours prior to sleep. In the other, they performed 3 minutes of simple resistance exercises every half-hour.
Results show that the activity breaks led to an additional 27 minutes of sleep, on average, for the participants.
The resistance exercises also didn’t cause any more sleep disturbances or awakenings than when people simply sat around before bedtime, researchers noted.
“Regularly interrupting prolonged sitting with short bouts of activity breaks is a promising intervention that may improve cardiometabolic health through multiple mechanisms,” researchers said in a journal news release.
Researchers speculated that these short bursts of resistance exercise could improve sleep by gently boosting metabolism and lowering blood sugar levels.
“Adults accrue the longest periods of sedentary time and consume almost half their daily energy intake during the evening, added to which insulin sensitivity is lower at this time,” the researchers noted.
The resistance exercises used in the study are simple to do, don’t require any equipment and can be done while watching TV, researchers noted. This means they could easily become part of an average person’s bedtime routine.
More information
The Sleep Foundation has tips for improving sleep.
SOURCE: BMJ, news release, July 16, 2024
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Fitter at 60 than 20: How George gained fitness and friendship by joining the circus
When Mary Wyer first tried the static trapeze she couldn’t hang for three seconds.
But by the end of 10 weeks, she was performing in front of a crowd.
Five years on at age 60, she attends classes and open training three times a week at a trapeze school in Petersham.
“The performative element is very motivating, more so than any other forms of exercise,” Ms Wyer says.
After noticing the lack of opportunities for older amateur participants to perform, she decided to organise a special showcase for those aged 50 and older.
“I don’t really love the idea of circus competition,” Ms Wyer says.
“But even if you wanted to, [we’re] unlikely to get into those because, you know, our bodies are slightly different and don’t do all the things that those young ones do.”
Before braving the cables, Ms Wyer watched on the sidelines for seven years as her daughter performed in a troop at the school.
As part of a Mother’s Day special, the parents of the children joined the class and Ms Wyer was invited up on the circus apparatus.
“It was embarrassing. I looked awful, I looked uncoordinated and I’d thought I’d missed the boat,” she says.
Months later, Ms Wyer saw a parent perform with her son at the student showcase. She had drastically improved since their first attempt.
“I went, ‘Hang on, you were just as bad as me. What happened?’ And she said, ‘Well, I just took some classes’ and I went, ‘OK, I’ll do that too,’” Ms Wyer says.
In a shiny space-themed costume and to tunes from the B-52s, she performed the static trapeze over 2 metres off the ground at the 50 & Up showcase last weekend.
“There is a little bit of fear, you know, because you are trusting that you’re going to hold on and not slip,” Ms Wyer says.
“I try and put something in that scares me a little bit so that I push myself harder to do it.”
Fitter at 60 than 20
Since joining the trapeze classes, Ms Wyer has felt numerous health benefits, particularly in her core and shoulders.
“My shoulders are much stronger. I used to tear them at the drop of a hat, they don’t tear anymore,” she says.
“As you’re moving into older age, it’s so important to keep that muscle bulk happening.”
Trapeze student George Argyrous is fitter now at age 60 than he was in his 20s.
“The physical benefits, you can’t describe it. You go into it thinking, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just slow the rate of deterioration as I get older,’” he says.
“But actually I’m doing things now that even a year or two ago I wouldn’t have thought I’d be able to do.”
Mr Argyrous has tried other forms of exercise, such as yoga and pilates, but none of them challenged him like the circus arts.
“The constant feeling of progress is really important,” he says.
“I’ve been doing it for 10 years now. And I’m always thinking, ‘What can I do next? What little thing can I improve?’”
At the 50 & Up showcase, he performed his favourite circus apparatus, the silks.
In a white dress shirt and red cummerbund, he spins around metres into the air, pulling his body up with one arm, using the upper body strength he’s gained from years of circus training.
Maintaining balance and flexibility
Losing flexibility and stability is a natural part of aging, but it’s critical to maintain as much as possible, says physiotherapist Anna-Louise Bouvier.
“Balance is absolutely critical … we know that if you can’t balance you’re more likely to fall,” she says.
“And once you have a fall, then that can spiral into a whole lot of problems.”
For some people, exercises like the trapeze and silks can help engage muscles that aren’t regularly used as you get older.
However, Ms Bouvier warns anyone considering starting circus training to do so with caution.
“Check in with your trusted healthcare professional or physiotherapist before you embark on something like this,” she says.
“And start really, really slowly as this would not be an activity that would be appropriate for many older bodies.”
Ms Wyer says she started very carefully, with the class accommodating all skill levels.
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Many flying friendships
It’s not just physical health benefits the participants gain, but new friendships.
The 50 & Up showcase’s oldest performer Gayleen Rogers has been taking part in the circus arts for 21 years, and has made many “flying friends” along the way.
“The circus community is just so welcoming, supportive, non-judgemental, and there are people from all walks of life,” she says.
“It’s just a great place to be.”
From day one she was hooked on the adrenaline.
“My palms used to sweat in the car on the way over,” she says.
“You know, like, it scared the crap out of me, but I just really loved it.”
Dressed as Sandy from Grease, Ms Rogers performed the doubles trapeze at the showcase to the song Grease Lightnin’, a routine she created 15 years ago.
The best part of trapeze class is it keeps her motivated to exercise, she says.
“I’m doing this with a lot of young people and, of course, I don’t want to let myself go because I kind of want to fit in,” Ms Rogers says.
“It’s helpful in that way.”
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