Home Gym

Just wondering if anyone here has a home gym?

I purchased a house a few months ago and decided to cancel my gym subscription spend a bit of cash on a home gym. It cost me £1300 but considering ive paid my gym membership for 10years now plus travelling cost I think ive done the right thing.

A few pics of my set-up, i only do weights and if i decided to do cardio id just run or cycle outdoors

[Dave20046]

Looks spot on, wish I had the room. That ground floor I take it?

Originally Posted by Dave20046

Looks spot on, wish I had the room. That ground floor I take it?

Yeah its a bungalow, it came on a pallet and weighs 590kg in total (inc floor mats)

Wouldn't fancy putting that on the upstairs floor in a house

[Dave20046]

looks like good kit...although you could have saved a few pence by only getting one bench

Either way if you intend on being a member of a gym for a few years you'll have got your money back AND there'll still be some value in the equipment. And no waiting round for sweaty morons to stop faffing about.

Originally Posted by Dave20046

looks like good kit...although you could have saved a few pence by only getting one bench

Either way if you intend on being a member of a gym for a few years you'll have got your money back AND there'll still be some value in the equipment. And no waiting round for sweaty morons to stop faffing about.

I needed 2 benches really, tend to do a "strip set" as the main lift immediately followed by a lighter one NOT as in naked

So for example Id do flat bench press followed by set of incline dumbbell bench press so it saves me chucking the benches around etc

Its goods stuff to light commercial grade all benches and squat rack are rated to 1000lb+ or (450kg ish +)

Nothing like pull-ups for the upper body... got a place to install that?

[Dave20046]

Don't know if I'm over-estimating the height of that rack but could you just put the bar on the top 'shelf' and do you pullups/chins?

He could but he'd have to crouch...

Originally Posted by Dave20046

Don't know if I'm over-estimating the height of that rack but could you just put the bar on the top 'shelf' and do you pullups/chins?

rack is a little over 6ft so plenty of room

...remember that when you extend your arms up you'll be reaching more than 6 feet, but again you could do sort of a crunch... feels harder to pull up like that...