Are you tired of doing the usual strength routine? Did you know that conditioning equipment doesn’t just look great but can challenge your strength in ways that you don’t get with normal strength training?

Our top 10 conditioning essentials list will help you choose the next great piece of equipment to add to your gym to keep training fun and motivating.

1 - Gymnastic Rings

Gymnastic Rings take up little space and are highly versatile pieces of gym equipment. And if you are thinking you would rather get weights and do some real muscle building I would have to remind you of the physiques of gymnasts. Gymnastic rings not only provide a fantastic stimulus to increase strength and develop muscle in the upper body, but also require a high level of stabilization in the upper body.

2 - Plyo Jump Box

Plyo Boxes are traditionally associated with developing speed and power, particularly in athletes. They are now becoming more popular in gyms with a number of applications that are not just power based but also strength and cardio related. For instance you could get strength benefits by using a box to do exercises such as dumbbell step ups or push ups with your feet on the box or use a small box to do fast stepping exercises to increase your heart rate.

3 - Speed Rope

There is a reason why you always see boxers training with a speed rope. It burns a large amount of calories in a short space of time. Think of it as giving you a cardio equivalent of a run but in a short, intense period. Speed Ropes are also highly portable, help improve bone and muscle strength in the lower body and can be a great way to add variety to a workout by including some skipping between exercises.

4 - Slam Balls

Slam and throw yourself to a stronger and more powerful you. Use Slam Balls to give your shoulders, arms, back, chest, core, quads, hamstrings and glutes a workout. You can build strength, increase power, work the core muscles and get the heart pumping by adding slam balls into your training sessions.

5 - Fabric Resistance Bands

If you are a bums and legs person or simply need to strengthen the glutes, hips and thighs then these Fabric Resistance Bands are perfect for you. They are made from durable elastic material and have a number of benefits over the latex bands such as giving more resistance during exercises, they won’t perish or snap and best of all they won’t pinch the skin or pull on hair.

6 - Battle Jump Rope

Think skipping but turned up to 11! We know skipping can blast calories in minutes by being one of the best calorie burning exercises but what if we were to add resistance to the skipping as well. Enter the Battle Jump Rope. By weighing in with weights over 1 kg now you can not only burn more calories but strengthen and build the muscles of the shoulders, chest, back glutes, thighs and calves.

7 - Ab Roller

Crunches just not doing it for you? Do you feel like having that muscle burning sensation in your abs? The Ab Roller is the perfect exercise to activate the abs. By requiring the abs to contract while you roll the ab roller further away from you, you can place a load far greater on the abs than crunches. The ab rollers also require the hips and shoulders to be activated as an added benefit over crunches.

8 - Foam Rollers

Get your own physiotherapist in the form of a foam roller. Foam Rollers help release the tight bands of fascia that surround your muscles. Include foam roller exercises before your exercises to improve and strengthen your range of motion or include it as a part of your warm down to reduce muscular pain and tension.

9 - Weighted Drag Sled

Get back to basics with the M3 Weight Sled. In days long before we had gyms popping up everywhere people had to do a lot of their own pulling and pushing and they were stronger for it. Now you can get the full body workout by pulling and pushing a sled and increase your power, strength and build muscle.

10 - Battle Ropes

Not only do Battle Ropes blast fat, build muscle and are fun to do but look seriously cool while you are doing them. You can do an entire circuit with battle ropes to get a complete body workout in a short space of time or include them between other exercises to increase your calorie burn. Battle ropes can work every muscle in the body with a wide variety of exercises and all the exercises require the core to be activated as well.

From calorie busting battle jump ropes to strength and stability demanding gymnastic rings, this top 10 conditioning essentials has it all. If being strong is not enough and you want to be in peak condition while having fun then include some of these into your routine and get more out of your training.

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Written by guest author Brendan McBirnie.

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