2021 BPM: 17 Fitness Gifts

For what you're getting here, the price cannot be beat. These are solid, easily adjustable, and very easy to use. Ranging from 5 to 50 pounds each, look no further for your entire home gym needs than this set of dumbbells.

Balega socks probably know avid runners and athletes don't let blisters, or the potential for rubbing one into existence, dissuade them from lacing up and taking off. But getting blisters is a pain.

Balega Blister Resist socks come in unisex no-show, quarter, and full crew styles designed specifically to address the blistering nature of our feet inside socks inside shoes on the move. The socks are made with mohair (fancy natural wool) and Drynamix (fancy lab-grown fabric) to keep feet warm in the cold, cool in the hot, and dry and blister-less all the time. Balega says it works because the Drynamix is good at wicking moisture into the mohair, and the mohair is good at retaining it to heat or cool your feet as needed.

The Quiet Punch doorway boxing bag is a portable piece of fitness equipment suitable for anyone. Pros. Sweat enthusiasts. People who wake up with a wild hair for an ass-whoopin', courtesy of a 12" square bag and the bedroom door frame.

As with the TRX trainer, those with limited space to work out at home or on the road need only a Quiet Punch set and a 28" to 36" doorway to access full cardio and strength-building workouts. The bag - which Quiet Punch notes is really more like a double-end than a heavy bag - installs quick with a pair of lightweight tension rods you wedge into your door frame. It's just as easy to take back down.

What's your Oura? Welp, according to the personal health tracker Oura Ring, it's tired, inactive, and slow to recover. Oh boy, another gadget to tell you you're doing life all wrong!

Or right, if you're health-conscious and fit, you work out, you get your beauty sleep every night - basically if you're an Oura Ring brown-noser like 90% of the people who will care to own a wearable packed with sensors that provide constant insights into their health.

Will you get a load of the legs on ChopFit's Chopper demo dude? Holy functional training axe, Batman, forget ripped, chiseled, and cut! If using the Chopper means I have any hope of building a fortress of muscle like that dude, I'm ready to get Chopped. 2022's gonna be the year of Paul Bunyan quads and hammies, baby!

The ChopFit Chopper is an axe-shaped fitness tool that weighs just 4 pounds - to keep it portable - but uses its unique build and weight distribution to create varying workloads of 6 to 16 pounds, depending on where you grip its handle. That is, the farther away you hold the Chopper from its head, the heavier it feels. ChopFit designed the Chopper as an all-in-one tool for both strength and cardio training.

3D printed with a 4D midsole. That's the honeycombed core of this year's Adidas 4DFWD Sneakers' story. Made for running, Adidas says the 4DFWD design "redirects energy forward, making your gait feel more like a glide."

Adidas pairs the shoes' unique 3D-printed middle half with a sole and upper more traditional to the brand - a tractioned rubber outsole, and a laced Adidas Primeknit+ with a sock-like fit on top. The 4DFWD sneaks weigh in at an ultralight 11.7-ounces.

"Pivot" was one of 2020's most pervasive buzzwords. And while Colin and Patricia Montgomery began working on their convertible PIVOT Bed in 2019, and it's now obviously 2021, the transforming bed-to-home-gym still hits us at a time when pandemic pivoting is prevalent in our lives.

Or maybe you don't need to work out from home, you just prefer it. You don't like the vibe at the gym. You don't like taking the time to drive there. You went on a few dates with someone you met at the leg press machine, and then you ghosted them / they ghosted you, and now you don't want to risk an encounter. The PIVOT Bed is for you too.

It sounds fancy, but Cryosleeve maker Recoup is quick to point out that the combination of "cryotherapy" and "compression" their pain and inflammation tool provides is really just a nice mix of ice and squeezing tight.

The Cryosleeve pairs a freezable, 360-degree icing sleeve with an adjustable BOA system to address injuries and discomfort in the elbows, knees, forearms, and shins. The sleeve configuration allows for icing without holding down an ice pack or fiddling with an ace bandage, and Recoup says once the Cryosleeve is fully frozen, it will emanate its chill into your selected body part for up to an hour.

VersaLifts V2 Heel Lifts aren't here to help you get higher, the athletic shoe inserts are here to help you get lower. Made for people who want to squat deep, but have limited ankle mobility (yes, apparently there is a critical mass of that very specific group of people out there) VersaLifts V2s are designed to elevate the heels and, in turn, increase the heel-to-toe drop by 1/2". The result is a "drastically improved" squat in terms of movement pattern, positioning, and depth.

The Bicycle Trainer Sweat Net from RockBros looks kind of like a diaper for your Peloton, bike trainer, or other stationary exercise bike. Except rather than keeping the bike's unsavory fluids in, the Sweat Net is designed to keep your unsavory fluids out.

You know how you're supposed to wipe down your trainer / stationary bike and the areas surrounding it after every use? Well, you don't, do you? It's cool. I don't either. I do put a towel under my Peloton, but I can see how a Sweat Net would be doubly beneficial. I also see, in looking at it more, that the Sweat net doesn't just resemble a diaper, but a mankini! Even more reason to get one!