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Sultan Bin Jewstar dijo:
Didn't want:
  • MRSA
  • To wait to exercise after driving to exercise
  • To be surrounded by people
  • To pay a premium for equipment I like to use
  • To decide whether to drive n minutes to work out for n minutes just to drive another fucking nminutes
    • usually at really shitty times

Different training paradigm so probably apples/oranges: about 4-5k got me everything I could want.
Look for gym liquidation sales and auctions if you're hell bent on machines- that shit stacks up fast.
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Tried to give my first gym a chance again last year and during that time, some lunatic was throwing dingleberry pebbles of poop in the bathrooms and smearing it ever so slightly across surfaces that you couldn't see it. The poop bandit was never caught, they had to put signs on the bathrooms and the police eventually had to monitor the security footage.

A little before that I got staph infections in my right leg from there. Their wet wipes were like dryer sheets coating in barely any alcohol, totally worthless. My 2nd gym, which I've been at for nearly a decade, is going down the same road my 1st one is.

Happy to report I found a decked out, new Bowflex Max System and a pull up/dip bar for $150 from a mutual friend. So that's a good start. Finally got some dumbbells and an adjustable bench too.
 
Polystyrene Glioblastoma dijo:
smearing it ever so slightly across surfaces that you couldn't see it.
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so you'd leave the bathroom and go to scratch your face or something and just smell shit?

I'm confident my math is good when I say commercial gyms and 90% of their customers are complete shit.

my assertion is built on this:
  • ego lifting
    • you break the shit
    • you take time and equipment from everyone else
      • often to record yourself being a kinesiological failure
  • leaving the shitter without washing hands
  • doing x in the y place or with the y machine
    • it's like a game of Clue
      • except it's always a faggot
        • in the squat rack
          • doing curls
            • with fractional plates
  • log jams because of arbitrary splits
    • "monday is chest and tris" ~ a memoir by every mother fucker who does splits
    • inb4 "lol. just alternate your split with theirs"
      • they come in groups and they run trains on the weight trees
  • inevitable puppy mill who brought six of her fucking kids
    • they are now hanging from the pull up bar
    • and the lat pull down
    • and just kicked a yoga ball across the gym
  • nobody wipes shit down
 
I converted my cave (yeah you read that right) into a gym during the pandemic. It's a tower with cables and a leg press part and a leg extension part and connections fir handles and so forth at the top middle and bottom so there are lots of options.

To that I added a low back extension apparatus that is also repurposed for some abs exercises when I don't feel like being on the floor, a weight bench, dumbbells, barbells and a couple of kettle bells. I like lifting.

The one part that isn't working out is the shitty euro version of a peloton that's made by Nordic track. I have tried everything to get a strong and consistent wifi signal in the cave and nothing is working. So that bike is not being used and it really bums me out.

I'm also trying to fit in something so I can work my way to pull-ups. I'm not even close.
 
Read convict condition and apply yourself. All you really need is a solid bar you can do pull ups and dips on, or go to the local park and do them on the monkey bars like ghetto niggers do (they're right in this case).

Save money and dont put undue stress on your joints, you can and will grow stronger and look like a gigachad/stacy doing just calisthenics
 
Hamburger Detractor dijo:
I don't see why they wouldn't, unless you think you can pull the band with more force than your bodyweight. But just buy a squat rack with a pull up bar for the best/practical option.
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If I'm going to invest further into home-exercise-equipment, I think I'll invest in a 4 kg, 8 kg and 12 kg kettlebell first.

The movement I want to master as of now is the Turkish Get-Up.


As per the description of this video, these are the steps of this exercise that I find to be the most difficult to perform currently:

4) Post to High Pelvis
5) High Pelvis to Bend
6) Bend to Half-Kneeling

I simply must reduce the load notably in order to be able to push my hips up as per the instructions of this exercise. It truly is a great exercise for full-body mobility and strength.
 
I have a home gym in the garage - weight bench, Olympic size bar with 200 odd pounds of weights, smaller bar, manually adjustable dumbells, a few kettle bells and resistance bands. I used to have a nice thick mat until a dog decided to piss and poop all over it one night for some reason...

You can do a lot with basic equipment as long as you have a good source for exercises.

Edit - I forgot some things you may not think of when building a home gym: Full size mirror really helps get techniques down right and is good motivation! Weight lifting gloves are essential to avoid messing up your hands.
 
You can buy pretty much every single piece of calisthenics you'll ever need for the price of a set of moderately priced adjustable dumbbells. This includes:

Power Tower (pull ups/leg raises/dips)
High Parallettes ("Dip Station") (front lever/rows/dips)
Assistance Bands (stretching, warm up, rehab, regressions/progressions)
Dip Belt (weighted pull ups and dips)
Low Parallettes (push ups, hand stands, L-sit, planche leans)

But my favorite is using gymnastics rings outside, the carabiner style (vs. buckle) owns. You can do everything listed above with gymnastics rings, made harder, with a very high ceiling for progressive overload. You will probably never do an iron cross without destroying your shoulders. A true home gym for $35 assuming you have somewhere to hang them.

Now find a big rock or something to do squats with.

Naughty vir dijo:
What is the most affordable, practical and overall "best" way to have a pull-up bar in one's home?

On the Internet one may find DIY-instructions of building pull-up bar like this:

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Building a pull-up bar like this would be ideal, but it's too much trouble.

Can any of you attest to the usability, or unusability, of those pull-up bars that one installs into a door frame?

On that note: are the pull-up bars intended for usage in door frames capable of withstanding the force of resistance bands?
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Power Tower. I have a door frame pull up bar. It works. I just was always very timid on it which is why I ended up getting the power tower. My door frame is kinda thin and by default my door-frame pull up bar hangs at a disconcerting angle. I put toilet paper rolls on the bar, and a shim against the wall above the door frame to get it in a proper vertical alignment, but it's really just hanging off the lip.

So yeah, power tower. They're cheap as hell, insanely cheap. At least they were. It must be a byproduct of China dumping steel. Maybe all the tariffs changed the situation since last year.
 
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Naughty vir dijo:
What is the most affordable, practical and overall "best" way to have a pull-up bar in one's home?

On the Internet one may find DIY-instructions of building pull-up bar like this:

Ver archivo adjunto 6986658

Building a pull-up bar like this would be ideal, but it's too much trouble.

Can any of you attest to the usability, or unusability, of those pull-up bars that one installs into a door frame?

On that note: are the pull-up bars intended for usage in door frames capable of withstanding the force of resistance bands?
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I have a freestanding tower. I like those much better.
Polystyrene Glioblastoma dijo:
Why did you forsake going to a public gym?
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I do go to one....sort of. My gym has the jiu jitsu classes I take. But because my life is fucky, I can't necessarily make all the fitness classes I want to, so I keep my regimen at home, where I have a cable resistance machine. Since it doesn't take up much space, and it has safety features for an older person like me (releases the resistance if I start getting unsteady), that works best. It's a little more expensive than regular gym gear, but it does enhance my quality of life and I'm glad I have it.
 
Safir dijo:
I just tried to buy a BikeErg, about an hour after the OP was posted. (Hope I don't get scammed, they're sanctioned and legit-looking prices are insane.)
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Update: the eagle has landed, got scammed out of $100.

I'm doing 50 km on the BikeErg per day on the 7th resistance setting (out of 10) at 2:50/km on average, counting brief rests. (I also row for an hour and go outside to just walk if I didn't go outside for any other reason.) The big difference between that and normal riding is no resting in the saddle. It feels like as much effort as riding on an annoyingly uneven flat stretch of road (but without the bumps and the burning hate toward humanity). IRL, I can easily do 100 km, but that with resting in the saddle and stopping for photos, sparkling water, and such, slower than 3:00/km on average.

The other big difference is I can do something else in the meantime. For now, the something is reading -- I can take my hand off the handlebars just long enough to select a bit of text. Apparently people manage to ride with their hands completely free to do other shit, like work or play vidya, but I'd need to either reposition the saddle to sit upright (don't want to) or to push harder with the legs (theoretically doable and fun but I can't yet do this, too weak).

Oh and there's sweat, even with a fan on, so casual riding to fill bits of free time is out of the question, I need to really commit and then take a shower.
 
power cage, few bar bells, and plates.
I recently outgrew my old dumbbells for some exercises, and got this stuff.
Compound lifts are the bees knees, and I don't know why I was not doing them before.
Polystyrene Glioblastoma dijo:
Has anyone ever been able to build a successful home gym and how much did you put in it? Why did you forsake going to a public gym?
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A home Gym can be as simple as a flat, sturdy surface. don't discount bodyweight exercises, they are an effective way to get started and into a routine. for me, I started out with only a set of 2 adjustable dumbbells, and a rubber floor mat. I'm not strong, nor even fit (yet..), but I would still consider it a success. Working out in the home not only spares a lot of time, but also removes a lot of variables from the gym, such as general judgments and cleanliness.
 
Going to make a home gym in my garage; I will be doing deadlifts. How loud are deadlifts on concrete vs wood w/ bumper plates if anyone knows? Looking at muffling platforms that are at my gym but they're fuckin $800. Amazon has some tiny pads and I don't have the confidence that I won't miss them and just slam the concrete so I'd like some peace of mind that it won't wake up my neighbors if I'm doing it at 5 AM.
 
People asking shit about "successful" homegyms and this and that equipment like wtf. Literally everything you need is
- bench, ideally an adjustable one.
- rack
- pull-up bar
- barbell
- ez bar
- dumbbells, ideally spin-lock dumbbells
- weight for the barbel and for the dumbbells
- dips bars
That's it. You don't need machines, you don't need fancy $800 adjustable dumbbells, you don't need $6000 rack, you don't need $4000 bench, and you definitely don't need a $10000 machine. Some normal general accessories like belt/resistance bands/etc and you're golden.

If you can and want to invest in high quality equipment you should. But you don't need to in order to have a fully functional home gym. Just get started. As long as you have a place to accommodate the aforementioned equipment, buy whatever cheap shit you can find that's not gonna kill you and start training.
If you lift alone and can't afford a bench with safety bars, never go for PRs and always keep at least one rep in reserve. You never know when your shoulder might decide it's done for today and you're suddenly in a dangerous position. Also practice bailing out of a failure with lighter weight just so you know how not to panic drop it on your neck.

666FUCKEDUPMETHADDICT666 dijo:
I don't have the confidence that I won't miss them and just slam the concrete so I'd like some peace of mind that it won't wake up my neighbors if I'm doing it at 5 AM.
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Is not slamming the weight into the ground with the force of a thousand suns absolutely not an option? I copied what this guy did and it worked out pretty well for well under $800: https://www.reddit.com/r/homegym/comments/6qzmao/space_saving_noise_reducing_deadlift_platform/ Still, if you slam too much weight too hard it will probably be heard around at 5AM.
 
I want to add something like a power rack to my home gym. Right now I have an elliptical, a bench, and pair of bowflex adjustable dumb bells.

The idea of a power rack that I can use both as a safety bar bench press and as a squat station is appealing, bonus points if it also has a pull up bar on top. I reckon I would also need a good mat to protect my floor in case anything falls, and of course a bar and weights for it.

Any recommendations for such a product at a reasonable price? Ideally one that can do all of those things without having to move a bunch of pieces around, or at least with easy to move pieces.
 
Calzaghe2 dijo:
What’s best equipment to get for home setup
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Depending on who you are, what you like and how much space you have in your home. If you're looking to start exercising, buy two dumbbells and a skipping rope.
 
I love my home gym so much, this shit is awesome.

I'm still trying to find ways to substitute the horde of machines and such I had at my disposal at a regular gym with just a barbell/dumbbell/cable system/power rack so I've been a bit slow in my workouts but just getting to sit on my ass in my garage without a worry in the world and save 40m in commute time is wonderful.
 
Last May, I got one of those under-desk treadmills to use while watching movies. I use it whenever I come home from work, so it sees 8-10hrs of 2-2.5mph use a week and it was not made for that kind of mileage.
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Looking for replacement recommendations that won't break the bank. I need to be able to store it under my bed between uses
 
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