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A Deity To Go With Your Downward Dog
By no means does a home yoga space or a home meditation space require the installation of religious imagery of any sort. All you really have to do is clear some floor space and roll out a mat. But let's say you want a deity. Let's say you want a really big deity. San Francisco writer Mark Morford wanted to install a 95-pound statue of Nataraja, but it's not like you just slap up a deity like you would a Bruce Lee wall decal. "Basically, when you decide to fully invite something like this into your home, into you life, you do not want to f-- around," he writes. So, how exactly do you install a deity?
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The Couch That's Also A Punching Bag
It looks all mild-mannered, like a regular, if somewhat galactic, sofa. But no. One swift shift, and instead of lounging, you're kicking ass, or at least kicking sofa cushion:
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The Beauty of Home Pilates
Can a home gym be pretty? Yes, or at least maybe. So long as you have the right model. And we think we've found it: the boutique Pilates studio. In-home Pilates studios have a noble tradition. Joseph Pilates himself taught out of his apartment in New York City, and some of the best Pilates studios are tiny operations — one room and a few pieces of artful equipment — a scale which makes them just right for cribbing from for your own home workout space. We've collected photos from a handful of small Pilates studios, including professional studio spaces carved out of instructors' homes, like Jessie Zalla's Brooklyn studio above. With big windows, long mirrors, and gentle colors, they're spaces dedicated to sweat that still pass the pretty test.
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Why Not a Home Climbing Wall?
Buried deep in our monkey DNA is an urge to climb. Urban living would seem unfriendly to that instinct: Small spaces, low ceilings, cheap drywall. Ah, but the home climbing exists, and must be considered! We submit as the ideal this particular wall at the Illoiha Fitness Club in Tokyo (photos by Daici Ano via Dezeen). Healthy and hella stylish. Yes, also a bit ambitious. Not to panic, we have rounded up some other, almost practical, climbing wall options....
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Shh...The Ottoman is a Weight Bench in Disguise
Let's not mince words. Gym equipment is fugly. Try as you might to upgrade your home gym with swanky designer dumbells or an artsy rowing machine, when all is said and done, camouflage may be the best recourse. Enter the hidden home gym....
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Treadmill Desks Unsexy, But Maybe Also Awesome
Put treadmills and desks together, and you have a deeply unsexy combination. Like sneakers with skirts (see above). But that shouldn't stop you, or so we're told by our friend David Goldenberg, founder of PigSpigot, and a treadmill desk early adopter.
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Railroad Apartment Wasted Space Becomes Home Yoga Studio
What to do with that weird middle room in your railroad apartment? Rent it out as an awkward walk-through bedroom? Well, that's one option. Another option: Clear it out, build an altar, and turn it into a home yoga studio. Full slide show after the jump.
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Wall Decals To Make You Sweat
Wall decals are hit or miss. (Examples: Faux picture frames, faux coat stands, or wacky packs.) Bruce Lee wall decals, however, take hit-or-miss kitsch to another level entirely. (Ouch!) But really, if your home gym is just a corner of your living room or bedroom, maybe the right kind of wall art is what you need, on a temporary basis, to kick a little harder during your Knockout Body workout. Plus, wall decals are a lot cheaper than kinesis machines, and they peel of without a trace as soon as you're sick of them. A collection of our favorites after the jump.
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Fabulous Home Gym Accesorizing: Dumbbells
Why settle for a merely functional home gym when you could have one with style? Designer dumbbells are not strictly necessary, and, yes, people will talk, but whatever. One must suffer for fashion. But not too much. Henriette Melchiorsen's sculptural dumbbells weigh just one kilogram each, so you won't be killing yourself. Regardless, they look way better on a shelf than pink neoprene weights. Price: £121.58 or about $194. More dumbbell art after the jump....
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Giant Inline Skating Treadmills
City dwellers, forget about it. Suburbanites with unfinished basements ready for pimping, behold: the Inline Skating Treadmill.