If you are still undecided whether it is worth buying sports equipment for at home in the corona crisis, you should consider the following when it comes to prices.
The
fitness studios *
are still closed in the corona crisis.
Alternatively, ambitious
amateur athletes
train
at home in winter.
The demand for
sports equipment for the home
is correspondingly high
.
Those who
are not yet adequately equipped
for
fitness training at home
may still consider whether a purchase currently makes sense.
Corona crisis: prices for exercise bikes, treadmills and dumbbells have risen
You should know that: Even if one or the other good offer can now be found online or in stores via "Click and Collect", prices in the sector have risen overall.
Here are the bare figures:
In the past year, the prices for exercise bikes, treadmills, dumbbells and the like rose sharply by 7.9 percent compared to the previous year
, as the Federal Statistical Office announced in January 2021.
For comparison: the average inflation rate in 2020 was only 0.5 percent, as reported by the German Press Agency (dpa).
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Fitness equipment already more expensive in the first corona lockdown
According to the dpa,
fitness equipment
had already become
unusually expensive
in the first lockdown in spring 2020
.
After a price drop over the summer, demand picked up again in December, the Wiesbaden authority said according to the report.
In December, for example, the prices for fitness equipment rose by a good 13 percent compared to the same month last year - despite the VAT reduction that was still in place until the end of the year.
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Home fitness equipment such as rollers for bicycles are in vogue,
they are a competition for fitness studios, which fear for their customers in view of the prescribed closings, as the dpa report also says.
So included
ergometer, a treadmill, cross trainer or exercise equipment
(of advertising link) at least before the outbreak of Corona pandemic is not standard equipment for home.
A good quarter (26 percent) of private households already had at least one of these exercise bikes at the beginning of 2020, according to statisticians.
They were particularly widespread among owners and couples without children.
Training at home is
only partially
comparable to training in the
gym
.
It is not for nothing that there are professional trainers there who explain and demonstrate the exercises if necessary and can give valuable tips on performing an exercise.
(ahu) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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