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    What was your best purchase for fitness goals?

    Posts: 42 Member
    edited February 13 in Motivation and Support
    Just thought I would throw this question out there.

    What was the best purchase you have made that has helped you in achieving your fitness goals?
    It could be anything, a piece of equipment, an app, a supplement, a gadget. Thought it would be fun to see what helps other.

    For example:
    1. I love my scale, its weight gurus. I bought it at Bed Bath & Beyond for $50. It reads my weight, body fat, muscle mass and water weight and then you can scan it to track in your smart phone.

    2. A digital measuring tape. I bought it off Amazon for $14.95. it by Health-o-meter - Its always such a pain to try to take my own measurements and I don't want to ask my significant other to help me. This make it so easy to take your own.

    3. I downloaded the app GymPact. You Set a "pact" for yourself per week to go to the gym X amount of times per week. If you skip the gym you have to pay your designated amount per time missed. If you go you make a tiny profit to bank.

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    • Posts: 3,982 Member
      Food scale, by far.
    • Posts: 135 Member
      Good running shoes and a supportive sports bra.
    • Posts: 125
      Hands Down a good quality Sports Bra. No doubt. My second choice would be my kettlebell, for the days when I don't feel like going to the gym.
    • Posts: 42 Member
      What kind of sports bra do you recommend?
    • Posts: 759 Member
      I used to try to stretch the life of my running shoes. I now replace them on time, and my knees and feet are doing so much better!
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      fitness goal? CX bike for sure...and my gym membership.

      nutrition/weight loss goals? food scale.
    • Posts: 163 Member
      Gosh this is a hard one! But I would probably have to say a digital food scale- as after I had it I realized how different weight/density varies from food to food that you can't sometimes see with just measuring! Good sports bras and correct running shoes come into a close second and third.
    • Posts: 8,927 Member
      1) gym membership
      2) weights at home
      3) I guess I will also go with workout clothes (pants, t-shirt, bras, gloves)
      4) Strong Curves book and New Rules of Lifting for Life
    • Posts: 234 Member
      My weight belt... gotta do dem squats
    • Posts: 30 Member
      My heart rate monitor, I LOVE it!
    • Posts: 2,227 Member
      This book:

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      55 lbs in five months, not bad for $1.00 (plus $3.99 shipping)
    • Posts: 4,555 Member
      a gym pass
    • Posts: 921 Member
      For fitness, good running shoes! Helped stop my knee pain and led to improvements in my running and ultimately all my other exercise goals.
    • Posts: 3,763 Member
      Saucony shoes.
    • Posts: 170
      1) body bugg by body media ....i've had it for awhile but a few weeks ago i actually sat down and did the numbers (along w/the food diary info from mfp) and by golly it really does work LOL - i've been consistently losing a pound a week !! go figure !!

      2) runner's socks - they come up a lil higher on the back of your ankle so your sneakers don't rub the back of your ankle raw -OUCH !!

      3) the velcro cushion that goes around the barbell bar for squats - that bar is painful on my back and i don't want a "hump" LOL
    • Posts: 1,930 Member
      ft7 polar
    • Posts: 4,489 Member
      My Garmin. Can't live without it.
    • Posts: 337 Member
      Personal training.

      These have led to other favorites, most recently my pink weight lifting belt that matches my pink shoes. I also have a pink jump rope which I am very attached to. It is all about the accessories; that is what gets new PRs.
    • Posts: 534 Member
      My bodymedia/bodybugg armband.... i've had it about 3 and a half years.... wear it nearly every day :) it tracks cals burned, sleep, steps, and how strenuous your activity it is... VEEEEERRRRYYYY motivating!!! You can challenge yourself to * just burn 100 more cals* etc... its pretty awesome :)
    • Posts: 53
      1. my Garmin GPS watch and HR monitor and foot pod
      2. gym membership
      3. registration to my first race....motivation for sure!
    • Posts: 2
      Hands down digital food scale. You simply can not be accurate eyeballing serving sizes. Part of my life now
    • Posts: 167 Member
      Pedometer, motivates me to get the stairs rather than a lift and stuff like that :)
    • Posts: 357 Member
      My FL. Seriously.

      While I didn't bribe or buy all of them, they have done more to motivate me than any other single thing in my life. I have a gym membership and I like that, I have ok shoes and they are swell too, though I covet an awesome pair like Amber has, but those things pale in comparison to reading what my friends do on a daily basis. They are, by far, the best thing I've done to move towards reaching my fitness goals.
    • Posts: 3,488 Member
      just before christmas this guy was saleing insanity, T25 and P90X all for 170 i'm doing insanity now. so i save alot of cash
    • Posts: 463 Member
      running shoes:)
    • Posts: 187 Member
      P90X (Along with pull-up bar and dumbbells)
    • Posts: 704 Member
      At the beginning i'd say my Wii Fit. I actually purchased it years ago when it was first out but it helped me get moving more when i began losing weight 2 years ago. My exercise bike and cross trainer also.

      Then my HRM, food scale and now fitbit.
    • Posts: 2,097 Member
      In order, my top 5 are

      1. Gym membership (for lifting heavy weights)
      2. Food scale
      3. Vibrams
      4. Versa Grips
      5. My cell phone (for food tracking on the go and work out tracking)
    • Posts: 5,424 Member
      Cold weather running gear.
    • Posts: 2 Member
      A good mantra cost nothing, best said while you are exercising/walking/working out in time to the words.
      Repeat after me - my pre-christmas mantra, "little black dress, little black dress, little black dress"
      A pre-summer one might be "Bi-ki-ni, Bi-ki-ni" or "swim-suit, Swim-suit, Swim-suit" all said in time to your exercises.
      Hope this helps to keep you motivated.
      Gill
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