Fitness & Home Gym

You tried skipping rope in the garage. The cheap plastic rope clipped your ankles, tangled on every third jump, and spun like it was dragging a chain.

Five foam rollers compared, from soft to very firm, so you can match the firmness to your tolerance and your recovery routine.

A yoga mat has two jobs that pull in opposite directions: cushion your joints and keep your hands and feet from sliding.

A full rack of fixed dumbbells is the kind of thing that sounds great in theory and takes over an entire corner of a spare room in practice — ten or twelve...