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What to Keep in Your Gym Bag – Buy Essential Workout Equipment

Updated on July 18, 2011

First Things First - Buy wrist straps online before lifting heavy weights

Whether you perform exercises at home to keep yourself fit or visit a local gym, you need to buy a gym bag loaded with some useful personal workout equipment. At your home, a container or drawer can replace the gym bag but the idea is to keep a bunch of most essential gear required at one place so that you do not have to wonder here and there in search of those items thereby wasting your time during workout.

For this purpose, you need to buy some important and essential workout equipment that should always be in a drawer at your home or in your gym bag. One more you also need to buy gym bag if you don't have one. Other things are:

1. Wrist Straps. If you do weight lifting, you sometimes require a little boost in your grip strength for doing heavy weights. This is the time when the importance of wrist straps comes in. Wrist straps are essential for you if you do a lot of heavy shrugs, heavy dead lifts, or other weight lifting exercises, so the idea is to keep the wrist strap in your gym bag all the times when you are working out with heavy weights. You can buy a wrist strap online or from your favorite exercise equipment store in your area.

2. Exercise Gloves. If you do a lot of pull-ups, bench presses, chest presses, and lift weights on a routine basis, you need to buy a pair of exercise gloves to be kept in your gym bag. Make sure to purchase a pair of exercise gloves that are comfortable. Exercise gloves also are beneficial for weight lifters and bodybuilders to prevent calluses and blisters on the hand caused by friction from exercise rods and other gym equipment. Also, it becomes really easy to do any type of workout with wearing these gloves, as they provide extra grip support. Exercise gloves also help in reducing the risk of joint problems caused due to lifting weights and while doing other workouts on exercise machines.

Exercise gloves
Exercise gloves

3. Workout Shoes. You should have a pair of shoes designed for workouts to give you the best support possible during exercises. Whether you are doing jogging in park, running on treadmill, or doing cardio workouts, you should always have running shoes in the gym bag. For doing other cross training exercises, you need a separate pair of shoes, but before buying a workout shoe, you must make sure that you spend your money on best quality shoes to prevent injuries during workouts because bad quality footwear can cause injury and then you will have to be out of the gym for a few days while nursing your sprained leg or ankle.

Athletic shoes for women
Athletic shoes for women

4. Athletic Supporters. Also you should not miss the most important thing which is to buy athletic supporter to avoid testicular injury while participating in strenuous weight lifting or bodybuilding exercises.

Least but not last, adding extra clothes, towels, comb, and a spare water bottle in your gym bag is the best idea. Addition of the above mentioned sports specific gear in your gym bag will make sure that you are ready for doing your favorite exercise without any hassles.

Buy athletic supporters online to prevent testicular injury while sports or doing intensive workouts in gym
Buy athletic supporters online to prevent testicular injury while sports or doing intensive workouts in gym
Gym bags
Gym bags
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