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The best affordable fitness kit to help you work up a sweat indoors this winter – Telegraph.co.uk

December 7th, 2020 12:54 am

Lockdown 2.0 might have lifted, at least in some places. But for those who want to wait for a vaccine before returning to the gym, and with jogging and cycling in the cold and wet an altogether grimmer prospect than it was in March, it is no wonder that online sales of home exercise equipment have rocketed.

According to figures released by eBay last month, sales of strength and weight training equipment shot up by 500 per cent after the autumn restrictions were announced, while cardio machine sales rose by 200 per cent. Rather than flour, this time panic buyers stocked up early on dumb-bells and yoga mats. And as Christmas approaches, retailers are banking on a bumper year.

Nothing illustrates just how fit-kit crazy weve become these past weeks than the fact that, on Amazon, a device called the OOTO Upgraded Boxing Reflex Ball is now a bestseller. It is, essentially, a ball on a string, attached to a headband and swatted by the user, like an oversized cat toy. Bizarre, but popular, if you believe the sales algorithms.

Purchasing home exercise kit can be bewildering and expensive, as any Peloton owner will tell you. Which is why I tested a range of more affordable products that will likely find themselves on this years Christmas lists.

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