>bought from a store
rookie move buddy, secondhand markets are full of dumb money who found out lifting weights wasn't for them and now it's all taking up space that the wife wants to use *now*.
Okay but you can do it all with dumbbells. Barbells are optional.
bruh my friend got a power rack, bench, reasonably good barbell, as much weights as they'll ever actually need, and even an elliptical for 850 in northern fun bux.
My bench is adjustable though.
1 year ago
Anonymous
their bench is adjustable. 850 funbux.
1 year ago
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So I maybe didn't get the best deal in the world but they also threw in a jump rope and these gripper things for free! Not too shabby.
bruh my friend got a power rack, bench, reasonably good barbell, as much weights as they'll ever actually need, and even an elliptical for 850 in northern fun bux.
some kind of bench is very important. you get diminishing returns on an adjustable one. There are some exercises that need one, but you can often get away with standing versions of them or just not doing them.
I used to go without a bench. I got a bench about a year or so ago. Honestly…get the bench. It’s worth it and enables so many great exercises even with dumbbells. Adjustable is more than worth it because working at an incline is important.
I have a squat rack, bench, barbell and some weights/cables. But I felt like I was missing something in my workouts. I had some dumbbells but I decided I wanted more. I bought picrel for like $350 and started using them this week. Best purchase I've made in a long time. Base product starts at 5-10 lbs (handle has 2 removable 2.5lbs weights in it) and goes up in 10 lbs increments until 50lbs. You can buy expansion packs and get the dumbbells up to 90lbs. Then there are 3rd party sellers that can get you over 120 lbs per dumbbell.
You payed $700 for a bench, 8 dumbbells, jump rope, and what looks like a grip trainer.
You could've bought the powerblock adjustable dumbbells for $350 a bench for around $80 and your set up would be better than the one you have now and that's just $430 spent. You could also buy some cables off of amazon for $20 and a tricep rope for $13. That's $463 so far and blows your home gym out the water. Add some barbell and weights you can find off facebook marketplace or craigslist and you could have a much better gym for around the same price.
Bros, pls take my advice if you are building your home gym. You don't need to waste your money like OP.
Based PowerBlock poster. I've had the 90 lbs since 2016 back before COVID made everyone home gym and the base models shot up to $1000. Best money I've ever spent on equipment.
You can't drop these and they have plastic components.
Ironmaster are better.
I threw one across the room once when I was mad and it didn't break. I wouldn't drop them regularly, but they're not made of paper mache.
kek
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just get some 20 dollar scale from target, what more do you need?
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how do you feel about all the support beams wrapping around your hand? I imagine they don't get too in the way, or everyone would hate them. But I just can't get over how different the form factor is from a normal dumbbell
Im going to use this thread to ask if anyone has any recomendations for a scale to monitor my weight.
just get some 20 dollar scale from target, what more do you need?
https://i.imgur.com/TSZTQ9N.png
I have a squat rack, bench, barbell and some weights/cables. But I felt like I was missing something in my workouts. I had some dumbbells but I decided I wanted more. I bought picrel for like $350 and started using them this week. Best purchase I've made in a long time. Base product starts at 5-10 lbs (handle has 2 removable 2.5lbs weights in it) and goes up in 10 lbs increments until 50lbs. You can buy expansion packs and get the dumbbells up to 90lbs. Then there are 3rd party sellers that can get you over 120 lbs per dumbbell.
You payed $700 for a bench, 8 dumbbells, jump rope, and what looks like a grip trainer.
You could've bought the powerblock adjustable dumbbells for $350 a bench for around $80 and your set up would be better than the one you have now and that's just $430 spent. You could also buy some cables off of amazon for $20 and a tricep rope for $13. That's $463 so far and blows your home gym out the water. Add some barbell and weights you can find off facebook marketplace or craigslist and you could have a much better gym for around the same price.
Bros, pls take my advice if you are building your home gym. You don't need to waste your money like OP.
how do you feel about all the support beams wrapping around your hand? I imagine they don't get too in the way, or everyone would hate them. But I just can't get over how different the form factor is from a normal dumbbell
Honestly my hand fits inside pretty easily. I was initially worried about that, but thankfully I don't have crazy big hands. The outside handles/beams can also be used to hold the dumbbell. I used the outside ones when I did dumbbell pullovers yesterday.
Posting my frankenbar again because someone wanted to know how much weight it was last thread. 105lbs DBs, 35lb KB, bar is maybe 3lb. Red band is 15-35, black 25-65, camos are 33lb. Added up it should be about 143-290-475lbs from bottom of the lift to the top, but it's probably less. At lockout it feels very heavy and I can't do all 4 bands yet.
Planning on getting a bar and weights next (maybe rings first), but I don't wanna drop $500+ on a set of weights and bar right now. I'll keep pushing until I can do all 4 bands first.
I don't think 1 inch is all that bad. dumbells that take olympic plates are huge, and you're going to have to buy a fuck ton of 10s just to use them anyway. plus 1" is a better system for emulating pic related in a home gym tbdesu
you're buying a bunch of weights just for the dumbbells regardless. unless you buy into powerblocks or bowflex or something like that. you probably don't have the 4 pairs of 10 pound Olympic plates you need lying around
It's more annoying to twist the weights onto each end. Also nothing quite like handling huge machinery like a barbell and loading more and more pl8's until you have surpassed mortal existence
how important is the rack? is a barbell set enough for a home gym?
Rack is important, both from a safety perspective and because it'll be good for all sorts of leg and pressing movements. You can go quite far with only a barbell, bench, rack, and deadlift platform.
The barbell is enough for deadlifts, but to do squats you need a squat rack, and for bench press you are going to need a bench, and if you are lifting alone I think you can use the squat rack with safety guards to catch the bar on a failed bench press rep.
If you have chairs you can do a jury rigged setup for a floor press, but there is much less range of motion so it is not ideal for gains. You can also use chairs to hold the bar high enough for a zercher squat but that depends on how much you trust chairs to hold up all the weight on the bar before you squat it. Great thing about zercher squats is that if you fail you just lean forward and dump the bar
thanks familia I'll start looking for a decent barbell rack set
The barbell is enough for deadlifts, but to do squats you need a squat rack, and for bench press you are going to need a bench, and if you are lifting alone I think you can use the squat rack with safety guards to catch the bar on a failed bench press rep.
If you have chairs you can do a jury rigged setup for a floor press, but there is much less range of motion so it is not ideal for gains. You can also use chairs to hold the bar high enough for a zercher squat but that depends on how much you trust chairs to hold up all the weight on the bar before you squat it. Great thing about zercher squats is that if you fail you just lean forward and dump the bar
It's more annoying to twist the weights onto each end. Also nothing quite like handling huge machinery like a barbell and loading more and more pl8's until you have surpassed mortal existence
I suspect he's just not counting everything in the picture. probably left out the cost of the mats. definitely left off the cost of the concept2 in the foreground. probably also lying
Either its horseshit or he got super lucky. Sometimes people just want to get rid of their stuff asap and they will accept any price no matter how low.
Gains made through poverty are the best kind of gains. It's easy to make gains when you've got a gym full of brand new equipment. The guy lifting on a dirt floor in his wood shack with a barbell held up by scraps wants it more. The real grind, not the Insta grind. You're gonna make it, anon.
I'd lift and drink moonshine with you any day.
My son, you have my full respect. Walk the path.
Thanks lads what do you think of this cart might pull the trigger but don't really wanna spend the money when I already am overtraining with what I've got
Personally I'd go cheap on plates (just buy secondhand iron, or Rogue echo plates if you want bumpers) and splurge on the barbell, but that's just my opinion. Rogue bars get good reviews and are said to lot of bar for the money, but personally I lust for the American bar by Buddy Capps, just because a Texas Power Bar was the first ever "good" bar I ever used.
https://buddycapps.com/products/texas-all-american-bar
Personally I'd go cheap on plates (just buy secondhand iron, or Rogue echo plates if you want bumpers) and splurge on the barbell, but that's just my opinion. Rogue bars get good reviews and are said to lot of bar for the money, but personally I lust for the American bar by Buddy Capps, just because a Texas Power Bar was the first ever "good" bar I ever used.
https://buddycapps.com/products/texas-all-american-bar
I picked up an “Impex Steelbody” bar from a Play it Again Sports for about $100. It’s nothing special, probably intended for the commercial gym market, but the bearings are smooth, good knurling, etc. I agree that a bar is the wrong place to go super cheap, but it never hurts to look for a deal on a good solid used bar.
Bro....700? You need to shop around more & start buying some used shit.
Bench is maybe 100 tops brand new and weights brand new are generally 1.25-1.50 per lb. Your putting that guys kid through college.
Thankfully not mine just a space I can use. Helped do the sheetrocking and framing and the monkey brained contractors that built the structure made it so every fucking piece had to be measured because everything varied 1-3 inches. Even the fucking post beams are just 4 2x6s stapled together.
since theres not an stupid questions general I'm gonna just ask here
planning on doing exercise in the morning
should I do it before or after breakfast?
since theres not an stupid questions general I'm gonna just ask here
planning on doing exercise in the morning
should I do it before or after breakfast?
Gains made through poverty are the best kind of gains. It's easy to make gains when you've got a gym full of brand new equipment. The guy lifting on a dirt floor in his wood shack with a barbell held up by scraps wants it more. The real grind, not the Insta grind. You're gonna make it, anon.
There are thousands of dollars worth of equipment in sight including the fact that the owns a large shed with electricity to begin with.
The only thing that says "poor" is what appears to be a makeshift wooden rack but for me that's more darwin award sort of stuff, maybe it's not finished yet and he put it up like that as a joke.
There was no floor to the barn when we bought the house so I put sheets of composite board down and raked till it was evenish it was a total mess when we moved in now ots a total mess wraith enough space for me to make a mess
Do it. HVAC shop was the greatest thing I ever did in my life.
I work on cars as a hobby and live in Texas so I needed AC at minimum. My room has my gym equipment.
You're not very thrifty. I bought a rusty Olympic set with 500 lbs, a bench and a squat rack for $350 6 years ago. I've added a trap bar and lots of dumbbells maybe another $100.. you should look for deals. Nice dumbbells.
slowly cleaning out the garage to make more space for equipment
$1/lbs or less for iron and $2/lbs or less for bumpers
TY anons.
That comic is flawed.
The first tally sticks were made from mammoth tusks, and this suggests that the job of gutting, flaying, and filleting animals was the least desirable.
Bruh, it's not that deep but I guess you are right.
The first tally sticks were made from mammoth tusks, and this suggests that the job of gutting, flaying, and filleting animals was the least desirable.
>The first tally sticks were made from mammoth tusks, and this suggests that the job of gutting, flaying, and filleting animals was the least desirable. >The fact they used ribs, rather than tusks, is what's so suggestive.
Explain please.
Had most of this before the insane holocough prices, almost everything is used except for the cage, plate tree, resistance bands, and the trap bar. I’ve probably spend around $1500 for my setup. You could easily trim down some of the accessory equipment and go bare bones to save even more money. Bare minimum I would say you need some kind of squat rack/cage, flat bench, resistance bands, rings, and a doorframe pull-up bar if your cage doesn’t have one.
-1x hulkfit power rack -$300
-1x plate tree -$90
-2x 100lb plates -$200
~ 500lbs plates -$350
-1x trap bar -$100
-1x intek oly barbell -$100
-2x oly dumbbell handles ~$60
-1x flat bench ~$25
-2x sets resistance bands ~$50
-1x gymnastics rings ~$25
-3x sheets roofing felt, 3x sheets 5/8” plywood ~$60
Yeah, thankfully. Resting on the safeties the bar just barely sits on my chest. I never even considered that when I bought it, I reckon you could always get a bench that sits at a different height to make the safeties work, or just not use them. The distinct possibility of being crushed to death would be a powerful motivator for setting PRs
I got pic related on Craigslist plus a shitty rusted 7ft barbell for $150 OP. I got 300lbs of weight, ¢50 a pound, and all I have to do is get the rust off and paint them. I’m in the process of taking the barbell apart and I’m going to soak the plates in water and vinegar and go to town with a wire wheel. Keep in mind a single 45 plate of the exact weights I got new would come out to about $60.
Bros who buy used plates, be sure to weigh them out. Most if not all cheap plates are not accurate. They usually have 3%÷- tolarance. On a 45lb plate thats a lot..
>who buy used plates
They don't stop being heavy. It's perfectly fine. Your complaint about tolerancing is legit, but nothing that a drill or grinder cannot fix.
Its about balance. For eg, loading a bar to bench with inacurate plates can build imbalances. Say you have 2 plates that weigh 46 on the left and 2 plates that weigh 43 on the right. That bar is all fucked. Yes, you should fix them or arrange them in a way that is balanced on the bar.
Putting a gym in the basement is a great idea. There's just point in finishing the flooring/walls/ceiling if you're just going to throw a gym in there though.
Guys are concrete weights worth it, are they dangerous? I see lots of places online saying they're awful compared to iron, they can fall apart in the middle of lifts causing you massive imbalance and injury, splinters can get into your eyes or the sharp sides can badly injure you, but is this all just Big Iron trying to scare people away from them? Can concrete weights actually work well?
>ATX >80mm racks so they aren't compatible with fuck all else and you're locked into ATX stuff >One stainless steel barbell and it isn't even fully stainless
They have a long way to go before they can compete with Rogue.
My nigga I paid $850 for a whole ass squat rack with pullup/chinup handles, adjustable incline bench, oly bar, 4x20/2x15/2x10/2x5/2x2.5/2x1.25 plates, and some pushup handles (?) and a band that I never use. You got israeliteed
Get the proper full rack Amazon sell, its cheap. Get the cheapest Ohio power bar available. Get whatever weights, those CAP ones are shite but will do fine.
Got this for free from a council grant to promote health and wellness. Currently applying for free cycling equipment to support sustainable transport. Wish me luck.
No shit, it’s true.
Up to £10,000 was available for business improvements and health and wellness. This is clearly to benefit the health and well-being of my staff, of which I am one.
I did also get some furniture and kitchen equipment for my shop
>didnt cost anything over $120
That's because it's shit anon.
https://i.imgur.com/MR5BzrU.jpg
>Did couch to 10k to see if I could stick with a routine without spending money >Succeeded so bought a rowing machine to avoid being outside in 100 degree weather >Kept up a decent cardio routine for 3 months and have lost 40 lbs since ive started 5 months ago >Wanting to buy weights but dont know where to start
What would be good equipment for someone who has never weightlifted before?
A power rack.
A flat bench.
A barbell.
Cheap cast iron Olympic weight plates.
Buy used if possible. Whatever you buy, don't do what OP and a few others in this thread have done, buy useless crap.
>Did couch to 10k to see if I could stick with a routine without spending money >Succeeded so bought a rowing machine to avoid being outside in 100 degree weather >Kept up a decent cardio routine for 3 months and have lost 40 lbs since ive started 5 months ago >Wanting to buy weights but dont know where to start
What would be good equipment for someone who has never weightlifted before?
Rack, barbell, bench, used plates and a set of collars is the minimum. Titan Fitness is pretty cheap for okay equipment but there can be production issues, rep fitness is better quality but is a bit more expensive. Don't cheap out on the barbell, rogue Ohio power bar is a great one for not a hell of a lot of money when you consider the quality of it. I'd say get the FB-5000 bench from Rep Fitness and a rack with Westside hole spacing because it's super nice. Collars you can cheap out on usually too, just don't get the spring loaded ones.
get some dip bars and a pullup bar, you can do so much with just those too. Then once your bodyweight starts getting easy, you can add weighted exercises.
Coming from -
https://i.imgur.com/2ZLFhbD.jpg
Heres mine, didnt cost anything over $120.
I never lifted weights until february or so, did a bit of that, but couldnt stick to it, so i tried calisthenics, and loved it. I wasnt even able to do 1 pullup and now im at 10, also started doing weighted chinups and dips, etc. I personally like doing compound exercises because their funner for me.
Ywnbaw
>Can't wait to get started!
>Makes thread on SwoleShack instead of lifting
ngmi
Dogshit setup
thats a sick setup, man
Thanks
700 was the discounted price, the guy in store threw in a 150 dollar discount. It would have been 850 otherwise
The weights and bars are 350
Bench: 60
Parallel bars: 50
Dumbell sets 14kg and 25 lbs: 40
Add in the floor mat and its still less than 600.
You got israelite
That's almost as bad as OP's setup.
>Plastic fisher price weights
>Standard barbell
>My grans crutch things
I wouldn't pay $20 for all that shit.
Wtf are those weights lmaoooo. Look like kindergarten toys
nice Fisher Price setup kid
>bought from a store
rookie move buddy, secondhand markets are full of dumb money who found out lifting weights wasn't for them and now it's all taking up space that the wife wants to use *now*.
I feel 700 is a pretty good price for what I got, it's basically a complete gym.
Because now I don't have to 😀
>basically a complete gym
no barbell
no rack
no way to progressive overload
not even a way to naggerrig a cable machine like
Okay but you can do it all with dumbbells. Barbells are optional.
My bench is adjustable though.
their bench is adjustable. 850 funbux.
So I maybe didn't get the best deal in the world but they also threw in a jump rope and these gripper things for free! Not too shabby.
bruh my friend got a power rack, bench, reasonably good barbell, as much weights as they'll ever actually need, and even an elliptical for 850 in northern fun bux.
700 for that wtf
use marketplace and get literally cheap ass weights in your city man
you paid way too much if true, but to be fair i could write out a 45 minute workout wth that equipment that would kill 99.9% of the population
Lmao I’d pay 250$ for that max
The bench is actually an adjustable one tho
you gotta start somewhere king. may have over paid but give it a year and you will mog almost everyone you meet in public now.
Looks like something my mom would buy.
Get a bowflex at that point
based on the position of the bands for the bench press, wouldn't they assist you? Do you pull down towards your chest or something?
>8 non-adjustable dumbells
Why would you do this? Nice bench though
How important is an adjustable bench for a home gym? I have the dumbbells
some kind of bench is very important. you get diminishing returns on an adjustable one. There are some exercises that need one, but you can often get away with standing versions of them or just not doing them.
I used to go without a bench. I got a bench about a year or so ago. Honestly…get the bench. It’s worth it and enables so many great exercises even with dumbbells. Adjustable is more than worth it because working at an incline is important.
Please be bait
I have a squat rack, bench, barbell and some weights/cables. But I felt like I was missing something in my workouts. I had some dumbbells but I decided I wanted more. I bought picrel for like $350 and started using them this week. Best purchase I've made in a long time. Base product starts at 5-10 lbs (handle has 2 removable 2.5lbs weights in it) and goes up in 10 lbs increments until 50lbs. You can buy expansion packs and get the dumbbells up to 90lbs. Then there are 3rd party sellers that can get you over 120 lbs per dumbbell.
You payed $700 for a bench, 8 dumbbells, jump rope, and what looks like a grip trainer.
You could've bought the powerblock adjustable dumbbells for $350 a bench for around $80 and your set up would be better than the one you have now and that's just $430 spent. You could also buy some cables off of amazon for $20 and a tricep rope for $13. That's $463 so far and blows your home gym out the water. Add some barbell and weights you can find off facebook marketplace or craigslist and you could have a much better gym for around the same price.
Bros, pls take my advice if you are building your home gym. You don't need to waste your money like OP.
You can't drop these and they have plastic components.
Ironmaster are better.
Based PowerBlock poster. I've had the 90 lbs since 2016 back before COVID made everyone home gym and the base models shot up to $1000. Best money I've ever spent on equipment.
I threw one across the room once when I was mad and it didn't break. I wouldn't drop them regularly, but they're not made of paper mache.
Im going to use this thread to ask if anyone has any recomendations for a scale to monitor my weight.
Ty
Lol
Ty ill just got for something like that
Easily 40$ tops. Learn to fucking shop fuck.
um no, stupid?
This one might work for you
kek
just get some 20 dollar scale from target, what more do you need?
how do you feel about all the support beams wrapping around your hand? I imagine they don't get too in the way, or everyone would hate them. But I just can't get over how different the form factor is from a normal dumbbell
Honestly my hand fits inside pretty easily. I was initially worried about that, but thankfully I don't have crazy big hands. The outside handles/beams can also be used to hold the dumbbell. I used the outside ones when I did dumbbell pullovers yesterday.
Spamming this cable setup every thread until somebody else builds one (it's really dope).
Looks like something I'd want. Were can I find this?
I made it, you just have to get the pulleys.
Pulleys + rolling thunder?
how much do the plates swing back and forth as you use it?
Not a whole lot, but I always make sure there's no way they could crack me in the head if they do.
I have a similar ghetto pulley setup on my rack. Just attach a chain to the top of the loading pin. Stops the swinging.
I'm not gonna build one but you gave me an idea to mount unistrut with pulleyshpvwn4 to the top of my rack to make a cable crossover
As long as you aren't tempted to do this
>the hats
You're bald aren't you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
Yes but no... Weights at the sides and much longer across the top
patrician gym
I only have 2 pulleys and not enough cable or I would
You’d make more gains with a pull-up/dip station, waist chain, and a couple 45’s for half of that price
Do you puzzle in between sets?
no but i change the arrangement of these mats everyday.
Nigga you can't spell
best itt
thanks anon
based and father pilled
Im Not planning to have Kids any soon. If ever.
Posting my frankenbar again because someone wanted to know how much weight it was last thread. 105lbs DBs, 35lb KB, bar is maybe 3lb. Red band is 15-35, black 25-65, camos are 33lb. Added up it should be about 143-290-475lbs from bottom of the lift to the top, but it's probably less. At lockout it feels very heavy and I can't do all 4 bands yet.
you're going to end up hurting yourself. upgrade this my dude.
Planning on getting a bar and weights next (maybe rings first), but I don't wanna drop $500+ on a set of weights and bar right now. I'll keep pushing until I can do all 4 bands first.
cool skateboard, Tony Hulk.
>that
>$700
Why not go to a real gym?
OP has to be baiting. Please let it be bait.
It's not, his responses are too good to be bait.
Got a rowing machine for $20 on craigslist.
Also, is this worth for $200? The dumbbells are adjustable. A folding bench is all I have space for now.
I'd say it's worth around $400 - $500
No.
Looks like a childs toy
I wouldn't buy into the standard 1" ecosystem
I don't think 1 inch is all that bad. dumbells that take olympic plates are huge, and you're going to have to buy a fuck ton of 10s just to use them anyway. plus 1" is a better system for emulating pic related in a home gym tbdesu
good luck buying weight twice
you're buying a bunch of weights just for the dumbbells regardless. unless you buy into powerblocks or bowflex or something like that. you probably don't have the 4 pairs of 10 pound Olympic plates you need lying around
1" is garbage anon. It's for clueless plebbitors and bored house wives.
Olympic is the standard. Might as well start with decent gear.
someone explain to me why everyone has a barbell in their home gym.
I'm thinking of buying a set and all I could think about was a setup like this
Ease of loading, wide variety of possible movements, better for training legs than dumbbells
how important is the rack? is a barbell set enough for a home gym?
Rack is important, both from a safety perspective and because it'll be good for all sorts of leg and pressing movements. You can go quite far with only a barbell, bench, rack, and deadlift platform.
thanks familia I'll start looking for a decent barbell rack set
The barbell is enough for deadlifts, but to do squats you need a squat rack, and for bench press you are going to need a bench, and if you are lifting alone I think you can use the squat rack with safety guards to catch the bar on a failed bench press rep.
If you have chairs you can do a jury rigged setup for a floor press, but there is much less range of motion so it is not ideal for gains. You can also use chairs to hold the bar high enough for a zercher squat but that depends on how much you trust chairs to hold up all the weight on the bar before you squat it. Great thing about zercher squats is that if you fail you just lean forward and dump the bar
i'm
and i use it for ohp, squats and shrugs. Also its easier for me to load the 45s on it and set it down to load further plates for deadlifts.
and bench of course
It's more annoying to twist the weights onto each end. Also nothing quite like handling huge machinery like a barbell and loading more and more pl8's until you have surpassed mortal existence
>This little setup was only $700
>only $700
>I hurt myself today
This cost me $450 OP...
>2 rogue barbells
>SSB
>$450
Horseshit retard
Maybe he got them used. Like dumbass OP should have done.
I suspect he's just not counting everything in the picture. probably left out the cost of the mats. definitely left off the cost of the concept2 in the foreground. probably also lying
Either its horseshit or he got super lucky. Sometimes people just want to get rid of their stuff asap and they will accept any price no matter how low.
damn even the bars paperrolls are there. i'm stupid.
cool plates
I like how your cope bar is protected by rags so you dont scratch it. You gotta be the gayest person alive.
Nice plates thou homosexual.
>SSB is a cope bar
You realize that SSB is harder than straight bar, right?
Link?
Thanks lads what do you think of this cart might pull the trigger but don't really wanna spend the money when I already am overtraining with what I've got
I wouldn't cheap out on a barbell. I'd get a Rogue Ohio power bar if I were you
Noted
Thanks
Personally I'd go cheap on plates (just buy secondhand iron, or Rogue echo plates if you want bumpers) and splurge on the barbell, but that's just my opinion. Rogue bars get good reviews and are said to lot of bar for the money, but personally I lust for the American bar by Buddy Capps, just because a Texas Power Bar was the first ever "good" bar I ever used.
https://buddycapps.com/products/texas-all-american-bar
I picked up an “Impex Steelbody” bar from a Play it Again Sports for about $100. It’s nothing special, probably intended for the commercial gym market, but the bearings are smooth, good knurling, etc. I agree that a bar is the wrong place to go super cheap, but it never hurts to look for a deal on a good solid used bar.
Name homosexual
>You realize that SSB is harder than straight bar, right?
Is that what your mommy tells you?
Cope from the cope bar user.
Whatever you say, dyel
Bros i kid you not i got 1000lbs of weights for 100 dollars a few years back. It came with olympic and standard.
Bro....700? You need to shop around more & start buying some used shit.
Bench is maybe 100 tops brand new and weights brand new are generally 1.25-1.50 per lb. Your putting that guys kid through college.
Get MOGGED, naggers
>Working out with friends
>Looking up at the sky when benching
>Cold beers after the lifts
How can you even compete???!!??
this looks fun but why are you all dyel
>benching 10kg
I think you know
I literally looked less dyel when i played sports without ever lifting weights...
Picked this thing up for $100 today, hope it doesn't kill me.
>osb i beams
the setup might not but that fire hazard of a cuck shed sure will
Thankfully not mine just a space I can use. Helped do the sheetrocking and framing and the monkey brained contractors that built the structure made it so every fucking piece had to be measured because everything varied 1-3 inches. Even the fucking post beams are just 4 2x6s stapled together.
Nice gym chinuplet
Why did the israelite make disks with a hole bigger than 1''?, all disks should be standardize
olympic 2" is the standard, fuck off with your dyel shit
well why did the israelite make the 1''?
so you have to rebuy everything when you grow out of it, buy once cry once
since theres not an stupid questions general I'm gonna just ask here
planning on doing exercise in the morning
should I do it before or after breakfast?
after
thanks!
about 30-60 minutes after breakfast so that you are fueled for weightlifting. if you mean cardio then do it before.
before
during
this
Have a treadmill and plate loaded cable machine too
Home gym master race
Are power racks worth it?
you'll want something to hold the bar. power racks are the most versatile and upgradeable.
damn i didnt realize hex bars take up so much space
You got ripped off. I got a squat rack, 300 pounds of Olympic weights and an adjustable bench for $600.
Posting this in every home gym thread until someone shits on me for being poor
Gains made through poverty are the best kind of gains. It's easy to make gains when you've got a gym full of brand new equipment. The guy lifting on a dirt floor in his wood shack with a barbell held up by scraps wants it more. The real grind, not the Insta grind. You're gonna make it, anon.
What makes you think that's poverty?
That dude probably owns a house in the country and this is just a shed on the property.
There are thousands of dollars worth of equipment in sight including the fact that the owns a large shed with electricity to begin with.
The only thing that says "poor" is what appears to be a makeshift wooden rack but for me that's more darwin award sort of stuff, maybe it's not finished yet and he put it up like that as a joke.
I spent 200 hundred dollars on the bench and bar all the iron plates and the lat pull down I found for free the saw horses are my squat stands
I'd lift and drink moonshine with you any day.
My son, you have my full respect. Walk the path.
did you sell the floor to pay for this setup
There was no floor to the barn when we bought the house so I put sheets of composite board down and raked till it was evenish it was a total mess when we moved in now ots a total mess wraith enough space for me to make a mess
You have a shed anon, that's anything but poor lmao.
Did you steal buffdude's barn gym set up?
now that's what I call S O U L
my shit is similar.
I have never seen any of the home gyms posted here have a Nordic curl set up. Don't tell me you guys are forgetting to do your Nordics?
imagine wasting a shitload on 1 exercise, just do them on your bench with a nordic strap
Got all this for $50
Anon, how the fuck? Yardsale?
my christmas gift to myself 2yrs ago
I can already tell you are dyel despite having this setup in your house simply by looking at your posters and other stupid shit you have in there.
Ironically most home gym owners are always dyel despite having such convenient setups.
i do travel a lot for work but i do what i can while im home
Thats a sick set up bro.
What are those tripod thinger majiggs?
not that anon
those are radiators
yea, space heaters. lifting in the 30F range is awful. thinking about adding hvac to shop but not sure its worth it.
Do it. HVAC shop was the greatest thing I ever did in my life.
I work on cars as a hobby and live in Texas so I needed AC at minimum. My room has my gym equipment.
Home gym plus me. The superior form of fitness.
just bike outside you autistic fuck
I live in a big city id have to drive 30 minutes out to get to a place where I can maintain the speeds I need to for a good training session.
You're not very thrifty. I bought a rusty Olympic set with 500 lbs, a bench and a squat rack for $350 6 years ago. I've added a trap bar and lots of dumbbells maybe another $100.. you should look for deals. Nice dumbbells.
Also have an elliptical and two excercise bikes for $50 lol
What's a fair price for a pair of used 45s? I need to get a second set.
Recall it was $2 a lb but that was before everyone wanted a home gym.
$1 a lb around me
TY anons.
Bruh, it's not that deep but I guess you are right.
That comic is flawed.
The first tally sticks were made from mammoth tusks, and this suggests that the job of gutting, flaying, and filleting animals was the least desirable.
Sorry, mammoth ribs.
The fact they used ribs, rather than tusks, is what's so suggestive.
>The first tally sticks were made from mammoth tusks, and this suggests that the job of gutting, flaying, and filleting animals was the least desirable.
>The fact they used ribs, rather than tusks, is what's so suggestive.
Explain please.
slowly cleaning out the garage to make more space for equipment
$1/lbs or less for iron and $2/lbs or less for bumpers
can i sit down and watch you working out?
nice bench, but not worth it at all. You could have gotten a cage, barbell, plates for $500.
OP stole this from Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/homegym/comments/wkqra6/this_past_weekend_decided_to_make_a_change_in_my/
Looks like the company that ripped that guy off even showed up to congratulate him on his purchase lol.
Go back homosexual
homosexual setup ngmi
I bought two powerblocks (maxed out 90lbs version) and a bench for a thousand bucks
Had most of this before the insane holocough prices, almost everything is used except for the cage, plate tree, resistance bands, and the trap bar. I’ve probably spend around $1500 for my setup. You could easily trim down some of the accessory equipment and go bare bones to save even more money. Bare minimum I would say you need some kind of squat rack/cage, flat bench, resistance bands, rings, and a doorframe pull-up bar if your cage doesn’t have one.
-1x hulkfit power rack -$300
-1x plate tree -$90
-2x 100lb plates -$200
~ 500lbs plates -$350
-1x trap bar -$100
-1x intek oly barbell -$100
-2x oly dumbbell handles ~$60
-1x flat bench ~$25
-2x sets resistance bands ~$50
-1x gymnastics rings ~$25
-3x sheets roofing felt, 3x sheets 5/8” plywood ~$60
Nice but you have the same hole spacing as my CAP rack. Did you get lucky with the safety heights for bench?
Yeah, thankfully. Resting on the safeties the bar just barely sits on my chest. I never even considered that when I bought it, I reckon you could always get a bench that sits at a different height to make the safeties work, or just not use them. The distinct possibility of being crushed to death would be a powerful motivator for setting PRs
I put plates under my bench and get the same safety feel as you on the next higher up pin.
where's the rest of it?
Why not just get a squat/power rack?
I got pic related on Craigslist plus a shitty rusted 7ft barbell for $150 OP. I got 300lbs of weight, ¢50 a pound, and all I have to do is get the rust off and paint them. I’m in the process of taking the barbell apart and I’m going to soak the plates in water and vinegar and go to town with a wire wheel. Keep in mind a single 45 plate of the exact weights I got new would come out to about $60.
>all I have to do is get the rust off and paint them
Just hose them off and start lifting. Don't make it an arts and crafts project.
Based and thrift pilled. 45lb plates in leafland go for 1.45 a pound.
Bros who buy used plates, be sure to weigh them out. Most if not all cheap plates are not accurate. They usually have 3%÷- tolarance. On a 45lb plate thats a lot..
>who buy used plates
They don't stop being heavy. It's perfectly fine. Your complaint about tolerancing is legit, but nothing that a drill or grinder cannot fix.
Its about balance. For eg, loading a bar to bench with inacurate plates can build imbalances. Say you have 2 plates that weigh 46 on the left and 2 plates that weigh 43 on the right. That bar is all fucked. Yes, you should fix them or arrange them in a way that is balanced on the bar.
wouldn't you naturally just adjust your grip so the bar's weight is balanced? even if it's an inch or 2 off center nbd
Those JBL speakers are the best things ever created.
The dungeon
>finishing the basement to just put a gym in it
but why
Why have the space in a basement if you ain’t gonna do anything with it. So I got a gym
Putting a gym in the basement is a great idea. There's just point in finishing the flooring/walls/ceiling if you're just going to throw a gym in there though.
Caveman gym thread
Think i'll stick to my stainless steel OPB and Rogue bumper plates.
hey thats the same shitty ladder that my job uses
>obligatory go fuck yourself
Garage gym is where it's at.
I really need a decline/incline bench.
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Guys are concrete weights worth it, are they dangerous? I see lots of places online saying they're awful compared to iron, they can fall apart in the middle of lifts causing you massive imbalance and injury, splinters can get into your eyes or the sharp sides can badly injure you, but is this all just Big Iron trying to scare people away from them? Can concrete weights actually work well?
No. Stop being destitute. Fucking homeless people lift with better quality weights.
Iron is cheap.
A little bit of fiber reinforcement and some rubber spray coating will vastly improve the strength and durability of concrete weights.
What is a good adjustable dumbbell?
I'm planning on wasting like 7500€ on rogue stuff cause no decent used in my country
ironmaster is good but very expensive
>€
>rogue
look into ATX, theyre basically the rogue of europe and you dont have to pay for the currency conversion and import fees
>ATX
>80mm racks so they aren't compatible with fuck all else and you're locked into ATX stuff
>One stainless steel barbell and it isn't even fully stainless
They have a long way to go before they can compete with Rogue.
Ironmasters are solid.
Powerblocks haven't been good in years. They are mostly made in China now and use plastic where the 90s and 00s models used metal.
Olympic loadable dumbbell handles are great but you'll need expensive clips for safety.
Overall probably ironmasters.
respectfully, anon, the equipment is good but you got ripped off
>Only $700
You got ripped off. Badly.
Wow, some really high-end stuff you got there.
Gotta make due when you're a poor retard. I cope by calling it "Greasing the Groove" for when I can finally start getting some equipment.
>2 25lb Kettlebells
>1 10lb kettlebell
>1 10lb dumbbell
>2 5lb leg weights
>2 4lb dumbbells
>4 1 gallon milk jugs filled with water
>1 Metal Mop Pole
About 130lb. That's...ugh...decent....
this can't be real
Would you recommend any of this?
are u a woman?
just get a rack , discs and bar retard.
My nigga I paid $850 for a whole ass squat rack with pullup/chinup handles, adjustable incline bench, oly bar, 4x20/2x15/2x10/2x5/2x2.5/2x1.25 plates, and some pushup handles (?) and a band that I never use. You got israeliteed
Yeah but I got these sweet hand grippers and a rope for free! Also my weights are coated in rubber.
Good Start?
Looks like cheap trash.
Get the proper full rack Amazon sell, its cheap. Get the cheapest Ohio power bar available. Get whatever weights, those CAP ones are shite but will do fine.
700 buckaroos for that?
Got this for free from a council grant to promote health and wellness. Currently applying for free cycling equipment to support sustainable transport. Wish me luck.
>free from a council grant to promote health and wellness
Bull fucking shit lol
No shit, it’s true.
Up to £10,000 was available for business improvements and health and wellness. This is clearly to benefit the health and well-being of my staff, of which I am one.
I did also get some furniture and kitchen equipment for my shop
>This little setup was only $700 shipped.
Hahahah wtf 700 bucks?
>no dumbbells
>no barbell
>where the fuck are your pl8s?
I have 2 dumbbells, lots of pl8s (equalling 2pl8s) a barbell, dips station, pull-up bar and bench for 300 bucks.
You’re a fucking retard anon
Fuck you guys
Gotta cope since you got ripped off I see
Need suggestions for dumbbells. Anyone got any good advice for what to buy?
Heres mine, didnt cost anything over $120.
>didnt cost anything over $120
That's because it's shit anon.
A power rack.
A flat bench.
A barbell.
Cheap cast iron Olympic weight plates.
Buy used if possible. Whatever you buy, don't do what OP and a few others in this thread have done, buy useless crap.
how is that crap? you dont believe in compound bodyweight exercises?
Try doing some pullups on rings and tell me how your barbell rows compare.
>Did couch to 10k to see if I could stick with a routine without spending money
>Succeeded so bought a rowing machine to avoid being outside in 100 degree weather
>Kept up a decent cardio routine for 3 months and have lost 40 lbs since ive started 5 months ago
>Wanting to buy weights but dont know where to start
What would be good equipment for someone who has never weightlifted before?
Rack, barbell, bench, used plates and a set of collars is the minimum. Titan Fitness is pretty cheap for okay equipment but there can be production issues, rep fitness is better quality but is a bit more expensive. Don't cheap out on the barbell, rogue Ohio power bar is a great one for not a hell of a lot of money when you consider the quality of it. I'd say get the FB-5000 bench from Rep Fitness and a rack with Westside hole spacing because it's super nice. Collars you can cheap out on usually too, just don't get the spring loaded ones.
get some dip bars and a pullup bar, you can do so much with just those too. Then once your bodyweight starts getting easy, you can add weighted exercises.
Coming from -
I never lifted weights until february or so, did a bit of that, but couldnt stick to it, so i tried calisthenics, and loved it. I wasnt even able to do 1 pullup and now im at 10, also started doing weighted chinups and dips, etc. I personally like doing compound exercises because their funner for me.