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From good housekeeping

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Optimize your Home gym has never been so top of mind. Creating a safe space where you can work up a sweat in the comfort of your home starts with choosing high quality equipment to make your workout more comfortable and effective. Enter the experts in the Good Housekeeping Institute Wellness Lab. We’ve compiled a list of the best-tested fitness equipment and accessories that are the best of the best to help you work up a sweat. Whether you are a beginner, a young mother who is fit again, or an experienced athlete, our selection has something for everyone.

How we tested

In the Good Housekeeping InstituteWe have a team of experts who take a holistic view of fitness products from a 360-degree perspective. We want to make sure they work well, are intuitive to use, and make sense for users to incorporate into their busy lives. With a background in nutrition and dietetics, certified personal training, certified Pilates classes, fiber science and mechanical engineering, you can be confident that the products we recommend have been thoroughly checked from a mechanical and functional point of view.

Our experts go a step further and collect feedback from our consumer panels to ensure that products are easy to set up and use, are ergonomically designed, and offer motivational and efficient workouts. For fitness streaming services alone, we’ve collected nearly 2,000 surveys and analyzed thousands of data points to find our winners. For larger devices, we have focused on build quality, ergonomics, variety of exercises and accuracy.

Meet our experts

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Amazing apps

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Mega cardio machines

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Sensational strength training

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Next level toning tools

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Fantastic active clothing

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Maximum muscle regeneration

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Top tracker

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Originally published February 1, 2021, 7:00 a.m.