We live in the time of wearable heart monitors, ZOOM yoga classes, and now smart home workout equipment that helps to keep us fit both inside and outside our homes.
These aren’t your grand folks’ old Bowflex or dusty stack of P90X tapes. Modern home workout equipment like Peloton, Mirror, and Tempo offers a smart, system-driven home workout experience with a streaming service model for classes.
Basically, imagine the old exercise bike rusting in your grandparent’s garage being tricked out with a touchscreen, smartwatch compatibility, and a catalog of live and prerecorded classes to stream.
If that sounds like something your budding at-home gym rat heart desires, look no further. We’ve got the low down on the prices, features, and pros/cons of some of the latest smart home gym equipment. And most of these can fit into even a small-sized apartment!
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Pedal with Peloton! 
Starting with the cardio king, Peloton is one of the more recognizable names in the smart home gym market. If you’re pining for the spin-cycle experience at home, Peloton is the name to beat.
The bike’s compact four-by-two-foot steel frame sits a fully adjustable seat with a sweat-resistant 22-inch HD touch display. Below the seat, though, the Peloton bike houses a near-silent belt driving the Look Delta-compatible pedals.
Peloton also offers a host of different classes to stream to the bike’s HD display and some light social interactivity such as leader boards and who else is streaming the class with you.
Mobile devices and third-party apps are supported!
The bike also has apps that work with Android devices, Apple products, including Apple Watch and Fitbit via an app, and Strava. It has general Bluetooth connectivity allowing you to pair headphones, speakers, or a heart rate monitor for your next ride.
You can even connect a Bluetooth-enabled heart rate monitor and/or a cadence sensor to view your real-time stats!
For Apple enthusiasts, Peloton offers Apple Health app integration so you can sync your workouts to Health App and see a complete picture of your daily activity from all types of activities and sources.
But the Peloton bike isn’t without its faults, that flaw primarily being the cost
With a $2,245 starting price for the bike and an additional $39 a month subscription fee for classes, Peloton is a more pricey option for getting in your cardio at home.
But fret not. There are other smart home gym systems out there with price tags a few hundred dollars less steep.
Not linking that price? You can buy a used Peloton for a lot less money!
Marvel at Mirror 
With a tagline like “the nearly invisible home gym,” Mirror elegantly provides more than 50+ different types of guided workouts from its wall-mounted screen, including cardio, yoga, stretching, pilates, tai chi, meditation, boxing, dance, and more. There’s even a partnership with studios such as Pure Barre, Rumble, and YogaSix, so you can take advantage of their unique lessons.
Like the Peloton, Lululemon’s Studio Mirror offers a variety of trainer lead classes with an added variety ranging from kickboxing and dance to yoga and pilates via Lululemon’s Studio Membership.
The studio mirror is also one of the more apartment-friendly options currently available due to its LCD-mirror hybrid design can either sit in its included stand or be wall-mounted. The mirror in Mirror provides two primary functions.
Firstly, it allows you to monitor your stance and form while working out with the device, and secondly, the LCD portion of the display shows the instructor and tracks your workout.
Companion app for mobile
Lululemon offers its studio companion app for Android and Apple devices, including the Apple Watch, Wear OS, and even supports Apple’s Message app stickers!
Plus, the companion app fully integrates with Strava and Apple’s Health app, allowing you to track all your workouts and view all your fitness data in real-time.
You can also sync a Bluetooth heart-rate monitor or Apple Watch/Wear OS watch to enable heart-rate-based training using the companion app. There’s also a competition mode where you earn points by hitting pre-defined target heart rate zones!
What about the price?
At $1,495 for the initial asking price (although they often offer discounts), the Studio Mirror does come in roughly $700 cheaper than the Peloton bike, but there’s also a $39 a month subscription fee for classes on top of all of that which gives your entire family access (up to 6 total household members.)
Mirror gets a few more knocks against it for not connecting to Android or supporting third-party fitness apps. You also may need to invest in weights, if you haven’t already, to get the most out of the classes the home gym system offers.
Training with Tempo
But what if you want to lift? 
Well, then Tempo might be what you’re looking for.
With a similar design sensibility as Mirror, Tempo Studio is another large screen in your living room to work out in front. And in many ways, especially if you’re looking for an intelligent home gym option for weight training, Tempo is the superior option for home fitness.
The Tempo system includes smart weights, AI-powered sensors, and on-screen guidance to let you know how much to lift, how many reps to do, what your pace should be, and when to do more.
While Tempo’s cabinet design (offered in both white and gray) won’t as easily disappear into the architecture of your home as Mirrors wall-mounted design, all the weights you’d need to take full advantage of the smart classes offered by Tempo are stored below the screen with dumbbells in the back.
To use it successfully, you need a workout space that’s at least 6 feet by 10 feet. If you don’t have that space, Tempo also offers a scaled-down version, the Tempo Move, that doesn’t include the screen (you can use your own screen, like a TV, iPad, or phone.)
In addition to streaming classes, Tempo’s screen uses its AI sensors to also capture a 3-D model of you while working out, so your form is always correct.
The two selling points for Tempo’s 3-D motion tracks are that the machine tracks 25 of your “essential joints” as you lift to ensure proper form while preserving your privacy by not taking video of your home.
Tempo’s membership app
Tempo offers its members its app for iOS and Android.
Membership gives users access to their live and on‐demand strength library, HIIT, mobility, cardio, and recovery classes. The iOS app also offers personalized coaching with Tempo’s trainers.
What about the price?
However, all of the bells and whistles in Tempo do come at a bit steeper price point than its nearest competitor, Mirror.
Tempo rests somewhere between Peloton and the Studio Mirror price at a $1995 upfront price and $39/month for a membership, but it may be worth the money considering it’s a complete home workout.
Fitness with FightCamp
What if you want to punch up your smart workout experience, exchange inclines and squats for jabs and uppercuts, or take your frustrations out on the bag? 
Well, then FightCamp might be the smart workout solution for you.
Unlike anything on this list thus far, FightCamp could best be described as smart boxing gloves. The FightCamp includes a standing bag, a set of wraps to fit the tracker to your gloves, and punch trackers.
FightCamp’s workout follows a HIIT structure–3 minutes of boxing and bodyweight exercises + 1-minute rest and then repeat for 4, 6, 8, or 10 rounds. FightCamps method blends cardio and strength training to tone all your major muscle groups.
Essentially, FightCamp punch trackers slip into the included boxing wraps to track your performance as you work your way through the variety of classes included in the FightCamp app.
Unlike the Studio Mirror, Tempo, and Peloton, Fightcamp requires that you provide your screen to stream the classes. This, in turn, also considerably cuts down the price to $499 (for the wraps, trackers, and bag) or $99 (for the wraps and trackers alone) with the expected $39 a month for classes.
iOS app
FightCamp offers an iOS app for iPhone and iPad and an Android app that includes workouts and training tips from experienced fighters with new programs every week. Plus, there are leaderboard competitions and FightCamp’s signature Interactive Punch Goals.
When you pair your device with the punch trackers, you see your workout stats on the screen in real-time, including punch count, punch speed, and total output.
With Apple’s AirPlay and Android’s Chromecast, you can even stream FightCamp workouts to your TV.
Room to move!
However, this is also one of the more spatially demanding pieces of equipment in the smart gym market since, for the best experience, you need a room where you can fit both a TV and a punching bag into.
That’s not to mention that Fightcamp requires that you already have a tablet or smart TV to stream the classes too.
If you have space, a television, and the desire to punch and jab through your home workout, then Fightcamp might be the smart home gym option for you.
Need a tiny smart workout? Or a cheaper one?
How about an effective workout that you complete in under 30 minutes and fits just about anywhere?
If all of the above suggestions are too big or too expensive, there’s almost nothing cheaper than a smart jump rope! Specifically, a rope that includes magnetic sensors and LEDs (on some models) on the rope and a companion app!
So let’s all feel like kids again and jump some rope together! 
Introducing the Tangram Factory Smart Rope–a fun workout that hits your cardio hard and helps you build strength and endurance.
- The most efficient cardio exercise now improved with the Smart Jump Rope Rookie.
- The jump rope connects to the SmartRope mobile app (iOS, Android, Apple Watch) via Bluetooth to tell...
Plus, you only need to charge once for a whole month’s exercise (36 hours of active training) for the top models!
And if you don’t want to have a rope ruin your floors, they also offer a rope-less add-on called the Donut, which attaches to the handles and simulates the weight of the rope.
- Cordless Design for Convenience The Smart Rope Rookie Donut's cordless design makes it ideal for...
- Smart Fitness Tracking Featuring Bluetooth connectivity, this smart jump rope syncs with the...
Built for mobile
Sync the jump rope to Tangram’s Smart Gym mobile app for Android, iOS, and Apple Watch.
Track your jump count, calories burned, workout times, and interval training, and collect fitness awards or compete with friends in a jump roping contest.
Tangram’s Smart Gym and SmartRope mobile apps sync to Apple HealthKit, Google Fit, and MyFitnessPal and support many workout and fitness wearables.
And it’s small plus affordable
Where Tangram Factory Smart Rope really shines is in the price. Tangram Factory offers beginner models (the Rookie) starting at just USD 40. And at this time, their most expensive smart rope tops at less than $100.
Plus, there are no monthly subscription fees!
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