Get fit for less than £5

he thing about home gym equipment is that it can become costly, and while we can obviously focus on bodyweight-only exercises, adding in resistance will really step things up a notch.

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Enter the humble resistance band. They’re portable, don’t take up much room and are cheap. But why do we need them? Let’s backtrack a minute. Everyone - men and women - will start to lose muscle from their late 30s, unless you preserve it. The way to preserve it is to keep using it, to keep exercising muscles against resistance, thereby improving their strength and density, as well as that of bones and joints. You might be able to do 20-30 bodyweight squats without flinching. But usin