Best VR Exercise Equipment for Home

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Home is where the heart is, even in virtual reality. Let’s find the best bit of VR fitness gear for your home.

Yep, home is where the heart is, but we all have things to consider when it comes to our hearts, and homes. And when it comes to adding fitness equipment to homes, there are a few obvious factors that may come knocking.

2 seconds to guess?

Size, movability/portability, and storage. While those words are far from bringing smiles to our faces, maybe tears of joy to our eyes, they are important. And if we’re to be truly excited by our potentially life-changing purchase, then we have to think about the particulars too. Thankfully, like most markets, the VR fitness equipment space is filled with convenient yet boundary-pushing gear, and because we happen to love ICAROS here at Gym Freakz, we’re going to find some of the best equipment from the mighty company itself.

But it’s not just all… health and safety, is it?

No. While I’m far from a child entertainer (thank god), I am an expert in fitness equipment, and fitness equipment gets me excited, then there’s no reason it shouldn’t excite you, either. Entering our equipment world of virtual fitness once again, we can draw some pretty fun conclusions. Namely, some of this equipment is cutting edge, some of it’s fun for the family, and a few pieces of gear are compatible with the most absurdly entertaining yet efficient and effective exergames I’ve ever played. And I’m just as excited to unveil unto you the powers that struck me when I got my first ICAORS machine.

So… before you get bored of reading, let’s get into the specifics of just how VR equipment will change your fitness lifestyle.

Let’s power up.

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	My Top Pick:	Best All-rounder:	Best Mid-Range:	Best Full-body Workout:
Brand	ICAROS	ICAROS	ICAROS	ICAROS
Model	Pro Commercial	VR Cloud VR Fitness Equipment	VR Training Home Package	Cloud 360 VR Fitness Equipment
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Recommended minimum age	14 years old	14 years old	14 years old	12 years old
Max Weight	110 KG	110 KG	110 KG	110 KG
Max user size	140 cm – 200 cm (4.6ft, 6.56ft)	140 cm – 200 cm (4.6ft, 6.56ft)	140 cm – 200 cm (4.6ft, 6.56ft)	140 cm – 200 cm (4.6ft, 6.56ft)
Machine weight	120 kg	12 kg	56 kg	10 kg
Ideal installation space	1.50 m x 2.50 m (4.9 ft x 8.2 ft)	2.50 m x 2.50 m (8.2 ft x 8.2 ft)	1.50 m x 2.50 m (4.9 ft x 8.2 ft)	150 cm (space requirements)
Check Prices	SHOP	SHOP	SHOP	SHOP

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My Top Pick – Best Virtual Reality Flying Simulation:

ICAROS Pro Commercial – Virtual Reality Fitness Equipment

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Overview

The Pro version is called the Pro for a reason – it’s the top-of-the-line, top-notch, and boundary-breaking release that ICAROS prides itself on. From superior material usage to intelligent internal engineering, the Pro is the best VR fitness game changer going.

The ICAROS Pro functions by you moving your body weight, and so it turns and tilts the ICAROS Pro forward and backward. The Gyroscopic central section rolls the user from side to side, so you are controlling the avatar in-game with precision, and giving yourself a workout in the process. This central slide has a brilliantly adjustable resistance system to make the workout even more challenging. Cutting-edge sensors then transmit your kinetic energy to the Virtual Reality world. Therefore you’re not only visually but physically bound, plugged in, and hooked up to the virtual world. The result is that ICAROS combines both gaming and fitness to stimulate both your body and mind. 

And if you read the title for flying simulator, then you’re in the right place – the ICAROS Pro is incredible in giving you a precise and accurate bodily position, with a weighted feel and fast response time. In short, when your body moves, along all dimensions, you’ll genuinely feel like you’re flying across an alpine landscape or soaring through the air in The Dolomites. It’s the general hardware feel and how that corresponds to how you feel in the virtual space that makes it feel so good, and when you remember that with every twist and turn, you’re targeting different muscle groups, strengthening your core muscles and burning calories too.

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Best All-rounder – VR Equipment For Family Fun Exercise:

ICAROS VR Cloud – Virtual Reality Fitness Equipment

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Overview

The Icaros VR Cloud is one of the best brilliance boards I’ve seen in the fitness industry. With a big focus on breadth, size and usability, you can see why ICAROS chose this design to aid VR fitness endeavours. With a great size and surface area, you have plenty of room to make use of all the kinetic movements that transpose to the virtual worlds. In short, you have plenty of room to mess around. Virtual worlds may be massive, but your front room is less so. And with the ICAROS app being one of the best VR fitness apps on the market too, when combined, you’re really saying goodbye to physical limits and spatial restrictions. In fact, with the ICAROS Cloud, you get access to virtual worlds and device compatibility if you don’t want VR. Using a tablet holder at the front of the device, you can stay comfortably in your home, with no dizzy worries, and still make use of ICAROS games and the ICAROS Cloud. Brilliant.

The ICAROS Cloud is by far one of the most innovative and digitally-centred training devices around. It can be used by people of all ages and fitness levels. The giant wobble board, with its large surface area, is much easier to use than the smaller traditional boards and allows for more exercises to be performed from standing, lying and kneeling positions. Namely, the main physical design of this balance board is to encourage the entire surface area to be usable at any given time. From balancing by standing up to being fully primed for prone workouts, the Cloud really encourages all that the body can offer in terms of muscle targeting, fitness levels, and endurance.

Specifically, after you’ve realised the potential and ease of having this VR equipment in most rooms of your house, you can focus on Pilates and Yoga-inspired classes, or take on the role of a fast-chasing predator if needed. Either way, there’s a role for everyone in the house. To mum with yoga, the kids with predator, and dad with a relaxing flight through Alpine scenery.

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Best Mid-Range – Flying VR Equipment:

ICAROS VR Training Home Package – Virtual Reality Fitness Equipment

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Overview

The second in line as the best ICAROS package, you get all the hard-hitting stuff but with fewer goodies. Specifically, this package Includes ICAROS Home, Pico VR Headset with 3 games pre-loaded and a tablet holder for non-VR experiences via the ICAROS app. Thankfully, the ICAROS Training package still maintains the highest grade machinery, a brilliant host of exergames and experiences and still lets you exercise from your home. It still grants the ability to provide an effective and immersive way to work on your strength, balance and coordination too.

While this package is a little less family-friendly, you can still set up user profiles on the ICAROS App, race online against other ICAROS users, make sure you take it in turns and let the whole family use its powers. ICAROS workouts firmly train different muscle groups, focusing mainly on core and upper body areas whilst incorporating the upper leg area too. The exercises in unison improve reflexes, coordination and balance. Top universities have shown that the machine plank burns 30% more calories and doubles the muscle activity when compared with a stable kneeling plank. And if science says it, then it must be true.

The immersive nature of VR takes the monotony out of your fitness routine and can make a 30-minute workout feel like 10 minutes. And with a focus on exercises that are ideal for core stability, functionality, and reactivity, you’re really improving all-round skills that you can utilise outside of a fitness environment too.

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Best Full-body Workout – VR Exercise Equipment:

ICAROS Cloud 360 VR Fitness Equipment

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Overview

The more convenient cousin the Cloud, the 360 packs a lot of the same power but with a more compact design. There’s not much to say about this device relative to the Cloud, but if you’re looking for a more compact yet still effective full-body design, then you’re in the right place. Because the digital aspect of the Cloud 360 is the same as the Cloud, the whole range of exergames and classes are there for you to pick and choose from the ICAROS app. You’re also able to use the Pico VR Headset (the only headset compatible with the Cloud 360 at present) and enjoy virtual reality games for as long as you want. The Cloud 360 is compact, fun, effective, mobile, easy to stow away, robust, and inexpensive.

What else could you want?

The ICAROS Cloud 360 is easy to move, easy to store, and easy to share. It’s small, so even when it’s inflated, it’s easy to move around. VR exercises don’t suffer because the surface area is smaller, and that’s fine, it’s only the design of movement that affects the games you can play. Think of a rowing machine, for example, it’s not the size that counts it’s the movement design. You can still do total body workouts, of course, just less than the ICAROS Pro.

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Conclusion

Made the purchase yet? Have you even made up your mind yet? Well, either way, I’ll let you off. These things are important, and even when we only spend £20, we should still be considerate. I would always encourage anyone to be careful with their money, but when I say these machines are worth every penny, I mean it. They’re transformative, enhancing, and propelling – I felt like I wasn’t just flying through a photorealistic landscape, I felt like I was taking a glimpse at the future.

VR fitness games, VR fitness apps, and home exercise equipment made for virtual workout classes; the world of VR equipment is only just beginning, so why wouldn’t you get ahead of the curve?

From training your core to simply burning calories, your VR fitness game isn’t just there to put a smile on your face, it exists to present new and unique ways of empowering yourself, levelling up your fitness lifestyle, and ultimately learning even more about the world of exercise.

One last thought for those who may still be on the fence. Think about an exercise bike for a second – it’s robust, sure. It has a brilliant level of fitness output potential, obviously. But it’s an exercise bike, and that’s all it will ever be. While that’s not a bad thing (trust me, I review them), with ICAROS gear, you can be a cheetah, you can be a flying machine, you can be combining fitness in a multitude of modes while taking on the virtual form of anything that’s possible.

Look for yourself, don’t just take my word for it.

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FAQ’S

What are rhythm games?

Games that are centred around rhythmic input. You could have one, for example, that makes you move at a certain time.

Do I get professional trainer classes?

You can access professional trainer videos if you need them. They offer great guidance and insight.

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