The Essential Guide to Must Have Gym Gadgets

Making the most of your time in the gym is important – if you don’t go at it as hard as you can, your ultimate goal will take longer to achieve.

Fitness Gadgets

Gadgets can help to keep us going in the gym. The best gadget to have is a good MP3 player and a good pair of headphones, but wireless speakers and fitness bands are pretty cool too. Here’s a guide for what to look out for.

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Music players

When you’re working out in the gym you can’t be weighed down by anything – your iPhone 5S is fine for listening to music on the train, but it is too big and bulky when you’re active. Therefore, you should have a small and light MP3 player for gym use.

I recommend MP3 players like the SanDisk Salsa Clip which only costs around £30 online. If you are tied to iTunes, the new iPod Nano is a good music player too. In truth, any small MP3 player will be perfect for the gym… I always say the cheaper the better, because if you’re working out hard, the last thing you want is to break an expensive piece of kit.

Wireless speakers

Gym music, in general, sucks. If you are working out in a group a good idea might be to pack a wireless Bluetooth speaker so that you can listen to your favourite music and make the most of your time. Of course, by doing so, you do run the risk of annoying other members of the gym, so this gadget is only really recommended for when the gym is empty.

The Braven 625s Bluetooth Wireless Speaker costs around £120 online – this speaker has good volume levels and a crisp sound quality. If you have a lower budget, I recommend the small but powerful HMDX Jam Classic, which costs only £24.95 online.

Headphones

As noted above, portable speakers are not always a good idea in the gym, which is where headphones come in – these allow you to listen to whatever music you like, or even an audio book, without disturbing anybody else. The only drawback? Pesky wires getting in your way, and not being able to hear what is going on around you.

Superfi’s Jays a-Jays earphones are ideal for gym use – these headphones are hard wearing and feature a tangle free cable, as well as an in-line microphone. Also recommended are the Sennheiser MX685 sports earphones from Superfi, which have been designed to sound great and stay in your ears with a wrap around clip.

Fitness bands

Fitness bands are a great way to keep track of calories burnt, and the best ones communicate with your smartphone and tablet computer to offer up comprehensive data after a workout.

The Jawbone Up is a great fitness band which syncs real-time insights to your iPhone or iPad, and now it is compatible with your Android smartphone too. Perhaps even better than the Jawbone is the Nike+ FuelBand SE, which tracks your active life and feeds an incredible level of data to your smartphone.

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12 Responses to “The Essential Guide to Must Have Gym Gadgets”

  1. subin

    Nov 22. 2013

    nice article, its really helpful i think that headphones are the best choice always

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  2. Erwin

    Nov 23. 2013

    An mp3 player is a good friend in doing a regular exercise, without it the exercise would be a bore. So I can not replace it.

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  3. Claim

    Nov 25. 2013

    Hi there Thanks for this great post 🙂

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  4. Stephan

    Nov 25. 2013

    Very nice article
    headphones is always my first choice, i can’t concentrate without my Mp3 or my smartphone.
    Thanks for your sharing.

    Stephan

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  5. August

    Nov 27. 2013

    Nothing beats having good headphones.

    Thanks for sharing.

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  6. Mark

    Mar 03. 2014

    for me i dont concentrate on the quality as a primary need as i cannot help chewing the cable and end up getting new headphones every few months, so now i look for the toughest wire

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  7. Tom

    Mar 05. 2014

    I have good experience using The Oontz Curve as a wireless speaker while in the gym. It’s what they call an ultra portable speaker. It fits easily in your hand and has a (rechargeable) battery that lasts more than 5 gym visits.

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  8. shailesh

    Mar 15. 2014

    very helpfull post

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  9. Kim

    Mar 21. 2014

    The lighter the gadgets you carry as you work out, the better for you. These are very insightful tips on gym gadgets and I am sure I have gathered great information to help me with my work out routine. Listening to music as you work out makes it more fun and exciting especially if its music that you enjoy.

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  10. Jack

    May 07. 2014

    Yes, now a days there lots of gadgets have come out to us and those are very much useful for our day to day activities. But when we get this sort of gadgets for keeping our fitness high then the value of these gadgets increase more to us. Great:)

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  11. Walter

    May 21. 2014

    A music player seems to be not a necessary tool for workouts, but a good music does magic to the workouts.

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  12. Anh

    Jul 14. 2014

    Maybe I am the only exception since I don’t like to listen to music at gym, because it is not so easy to find a sturdy and stay-in headphones for gym. And as you say, sometimes tangling wires cause frustration

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