It’s a one-time payment. You can spend it on anything fitness or health related.

Edit: I’m not looking for recommendations, I’m curious what YOU would spend it on.

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I have $200 to spend on fitness. I don’t spend them.

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Relatable, but I want to spend it once.

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If there’s a secondhand store near you, I highly recommend that. A lot of people will buy, say, an exercise bike, and then sell it because they don’t use it. End result: you get something that’s practically new, but much cheaper!

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Great suggestion

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Maybe a fitness club / gym membership? Or depending on where you’re at maybe a consult with a personal trainer or something.

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Good idea

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A sturdy, used, road-oriented bicycle. $200 won’t get anything too fancy, but cycling is a low-impact activity that – given the right places to bike – is meditative, improves cardio, facilitates independent exploration, and also happens to double as transportation.

I specifically say “road oriented” because I don’t want to necessarily endorse all road bikes, like the ones with carbon fibre or “Tour de France” pedigree. Likewise, mountain bikes with full-suspension sap energy away from the steady cadence ideal for a good workout, in addition to generally costing more or delivering less-than-stellar performance at low price points.

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In the US? A National Parks Pass and snacks for the long hikes.

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Fresh pair of climbing shoes

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Are shoes important for climbing? I did consider paying for a climbing gym session

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Yeah you wear specific shoes and they make different styles of shoes for different types of climbing. I pay for a monthly membership so the 200 could go to that as well ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Eyyy have you seen my woody on my profile? It was $305 so it doesn’t qualify for OP’s question, but I feel it’s in the same spirit. Plus, I always love seeing more of my people in this corner of the internet - hello!

(I need to learn how to make instance-agnostic links)

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Talk about risky click of the day lol. That thing is sick! For 300 that is awesome, you got a build process or anything?

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Thanks! :D Like a tutorial? So the plywood is screwed to five wooden spines, and the spines attach to perpendicular ceiling joists using joist hangers, simpson ties, and angle iron from an old bed frame. For the holds, you pretty much get a flat surface using a miter saw, drill a hole with a drill press, shape it with the miter, and then sand to comfortize. A router can also help with shaping if you have one. I wish I had a photo album to go with this but I didn’t take too many as I went. Anyway, cheers! :)

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Yo your $305 woody really rocks

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Ayy *finger guns*

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Really depends what you’ve already got and what you want, fitness is such a vague term tbh.

I’d personally start with putting it towards gym membership for however many months.

Assuming I already had that tho, I’d buy Versa Gripps for lifting. I say I would, I actually bought a pair today…

Besides lifting I only do cycling, so prob spend on a service and new parts.

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I’m not looking for recommendations so much as curious what other people would do. I’d love to hear an update on how you’re liking the versa gripps after you use them for a while - been contemplating wrist straps for deadlifts myself

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