Home Gym & Equipment

[sohail]

Hi Everybody,

Its about home gym and equipment. does any one have their own personal gym at home. has any one made them personally; like a bench or pull up bar. The rainy season has just started here and i personally dont like arriving at gym all wet. so i was wondering if i could build few equipments at home. like a pull up bar, pushup stand etc. i wanted to knw if any one has built their own ghetto gym at home. Please share your ideas and thoughts.

Thanks.

[ColdFX]

Ive just got a benchpress and a curling bar, and it seems to work great.
You can use the benchbar for squats, deadlifts, and curling, as well as just normal benching.
A benchpress and a curling bar are a must, the rest you can get over time.

[JoeBAR]

Originally Posted by sohail

Hi Everybody,

Its about home gym and equipment. does any one have their own personal gym at home. has any one made them personally; like a bench or pull up bar. The rainy season has just started here and i personally dont like arriving at gym all wet. so i was wondering if i could build few equipments at home. like a pull up bar, pushup stand etc. i wanted to knw if any one has built their own ghetto gym at home. Please share your ideas and thoughts.

Thanks.

There has been a thread about home gym here last year, Powerhouse posted several good links about some projects that are well documented all over the internet

[sohail]

thanks for the info..could powerhouse post those links. i googled but could not get much help on it.

[wil]

Having home gym equipment is much different than building your own. I have my own gym in my basement but i didn't build anything. I have a 4-position bench, a squat rack/cage with a pulley setup with high and low pulleys. i found a small used bench that I just use the uprights to rest a bar on when I curl. And then I have close to 900 lbs of weights (mostly Olympic with some standard plates that I use with dumbbell handles).

I'm sure that if you do a search of the forum there must be some submissions from others who have actually built stuff.

[47]

In my opinion, a huge factor in having a home gym is your budget and the space you have available for it. Personally, I prefer not much more than a standalone pull-up bar, and a bench with dumbbells. You can get most things done with just that. I save heavy leg work like squats and so on for the gym, but you can still do lunges and high rep squats with heavy dumbbells at the house. I'd gladly have a squat rack and some other equipment, but have no space for it. My little girl's toys take up too much room

[jakethesnayke]

Bumper plates, barell, pull up bar, rings and maybe a few medicine balls is all you need. And a floor.

An inifinite number of good workous can be derived from that!