What are some common pitfalls to avoid when building a home gym?
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What are some common pitfalls to avoid when building a home gym?
Probably the pit
This. I forgot to install a manlet pit in my first home gym and I had to call the exterminator within a couple months.
i legit have a pit in my homegym. it's supposed to be used for car repair
Buy good quality equipment, especially the barbell
Ensure you can drop weight on floor (on accident) without creating huge costs/drama with landlord
Enough space to work out/move around comfortably
Have a plan for how to do leg day properly. If you don’t you eventually circle back to a commercial gym
Temperature management in winter/summer so you keep using it
>landlord
Pfft ahahahahahha
>landlord
>Have a plan for how to do leg day properly. If you don’t you eventually circle back to a commercial gym
this one is actually pretty huge, Getting a leg curl/leg extension machine for my garage gym made my leg days so much better
The biggest meme trap is trying to buy too much equipment or getting stuff that's too specialised.
Just get a rack, a barbell, a bench and some form of cardio to start. After that there's a clear progression of stuff you can get as you need it, like dumbbells and cable attachments. But don't be one of those morons who buys a Smith machine.
I definitely got too much, too fast.
"Oh, this is neat"
"That'd be cool"
"What a deal!"
I'm whittling it back but, definitely wasted some money. Got dumbbells, became dumber...went with like 3 different "sets" and bullshit for some fricking reason.
I wish I had not gotten the kensui adjustables specifically.
Buying equipment that is less useful than calisthenics. Seriously you don't need anything until you start to plateau with push up, sit ups, squats, and pull ups. Get to where you can do 100 of each without a break then you should buy equipment. Even then you can get weight vest heavy enough to eliminate your need for any other equipment unless your juicing. Max out your calisthenics then go buy an adjustable weight vest. You can get them all the way up to 100 kilos. Don't waste your money.
how the frick is someone supposed to be able to get to a hundred pullups or push ups while basically ignoring everything else meanwhile
>everything else
>traps and side delts
bodybuilding brainrot, just do handstands
>everything else
>traps and side delts
How about actual everything else?
>hundred pull-ups in a row before doing some bench or squats
Tell me you are a 65kg dyel without telling me you're a 65kg dyel.
>Get to where you can do 100 of each without a break then you should buy equipment
If you can do max 12 reps without getting tired then it just becomes cardio. This advice is terrible
Not really you dumb homosexual. If you reach failure you grow, that simple.
Dyels really watch a few tik toks and think they know everything, damn
Lmao. Lol even. You will get toned up to about 12 reps. After that failure comes from oxygen depletion more than muscle fatigue. Its why no endurance athletes are jacked. But keep doing tons of bw pushups and post body, prove me wrong lmao
>post body, prove me wrong lmao
I lift weights and weighted calisthenics
And muh oxygen depletion(which is a meme in the first place) fixes itself by doing a lot every day .
At some point your body will feel heavy because you're close failure, and you'll grow.
The people who dont grow from high reps are the fricking morons being memed into a gym mindset but for calisthenics, when the way to go about it is completely different.
As you can see high repetitions grow your upper body, as for lower body he should've done pistol squats or added more weight
>inb4 it's le inconvenient
no one's talking about that you gay homosexual
>post body
Let me just explain why I dont need to
Also weighted calisthenics are completely different than bw alone you silly billy. You should add weight progressively and shoot for sets of 8-10 for best results rather than mindlessly banging out high rep numbers
>And muh oxygen depletion(which is a meme in the first place) fixes itself by doing a lot every day
You are arguing for improving cardio but too much of a sillybilly to understand it. Yes, you can do 30 reps of bw pullups for cardio but id rather just use the elliptical
But you grooow from iiit
It's like minecraft, you mine in a straight line until you get diamonds
Only to a certain point. Look at the legs of marathon runners. They are toned and lean but someone who squats 2 plates for reps is going to have greater muscle mass in their quads
You talk like a little girl.
I actually do
that's pretty good moron
that's a moronic comparison
make them sprint and they'll reach failure at some point
*turns the lights off*
Wow he looks pretty good!
Lmao
on the other side gym transformations look like:
https://fitness-worx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/7.gif
Let's be honest, natty lifting is a waste of time in the first place
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>As you can see high repetitions grow your upper body
>no endurance athletes are jacked.
Are you more jacked than Cristiano Ronaldo, homosexual? Post body
Soccer is not an endurence sport you chowderhead. Ronaldos position requires extreme explosiveness, obviosly hes gonna be yoked
>endurence
Good day to you sir
If you do t think football players benefit from good endurance, you obviously never played it.
>football
This advice is like 'Just deadlift 800lb and see if your lats are small then'. 100 pull-ups is an insane accomplishment which is impossible for nearly everybody, & anybody who can actually do this will have an insane physique just because it's impossible to do this without having an insane physique. It's like telling somebody to get their row to five plates to grow their biceps. Anybody who can row five plates will have massive biceps so it seems legit until you think about it for one second & realize it's correlation.
>anybody who can actually do this will have an insane physique just because it's impossible to do this without having an insane physique
Actually not that insane at. Good upper body strength is a must but the hard part is endurance. This is more a feat of cardio than strength. Being huge would actually hinder you here
For ref picrel is recordholder for most pullups ever in 24 hours. Obv very lean and in great shape, but would not stand out at even your average commercial gym in terms of size and definition
It's shit advice. 100 reps? Frick off with that. It's not like this shit you're making up though. The actual advice is to get your compounds up to par first. You probably can't get your deadlift to 800lbs but if you're small you can definitely add a couple hundred lbs to it and you should before you start worrying about other lifts.
100 consecutive pull-ups is absolutely elite. The only people who can do it are autistic midgets who train pull-ups constantly (vid very related) or Crosshitters, who aren't doing pull-ups anyway, they're doing kip-ups which are 50-60% easier.
>100 pull-ups
he's right, especially for beginner and intermediate lifters.
all you need for at home training is:
>a pull up bar
>short parallettes for push ups
>tall parallettes for dips and inverted rows
>a weight vest or a backpack filled with heavy objects if you're really broke
the vast majority of people will never outgrow basic calisthenics like push ups, dips, pull ups, inverted rows, squats and lunges, especially with a weight vest. if you are worried about your hamstrings being neglected, buy a pack of heavy resistance bands to do hamstring curls and good mornings with, they also help to assist you if you cannot do a pull up yet.
kek
Ceiling height. Not just to fit the squat rack but to do overhead press.
just sit down
the biggest pitfall is not using it
the second is waiting until you can buy everything at once especially if you're a new lifter. start with basic shit like loadable dumbbells and something to do pullups with. learn how to use few pieces of equipment to do a lot then buy equipment as you progress.
Dont put your squat rack in the bath
buy quality
imagine lifting in those ruins, metal af
Cheap racks and benches easily.
>costs more than it should
Then go to a regular gym.
Don't stop going outside
*Figure out exactly how and where it's getting attached to the floor, wall or ceiling before you make your cop.
*Particularly if you live with other people: figure out how to avoid all the space getting filled with shit, clothes hanging off of the equipment etc.
Some c**t is going to want to put a box in the middle of the rack
>just for a minute and you haven't even lifted in the past two days!
and before you know it it'll be completely inaccessible and they'll be saying
>omg why did you waste your money on that rack i have made completely inaccessible with my shit?
*Don't try and save money on shit that looks "good enough" if it probably isn't.
*Think about what you're going to be doing. eg. Do you want to do the big four lifts? If so: does what you're looking at let you do the big four lifts from day one?
If it doesn't let you do what you want from day one then maybe your plan is a bad plan.
>Letting some fat prostitute block your gains
Ngmi. Throw her and her boxes out, proceed with making it.
the c**t was my dad.
i could have said don't live with your parents but it goes without saying that you shouldn't be as moronic as me.
Don’t cheap out on your power cage or your barbell
Get a couple horse stall mats and bumper 45s for the floor
This. If it's not really in your finances to ball out, most places accept payment plans.
For me, I just wish I bought a better bench off the bat. I know I’m going to have to upgrade now and it was a waste of money buying the Chinese crap from target. Everything else I’m happy with though.
poverty mirror
Not to concerned with the quality of my mirror
Post your homegym
Miring that Celtic tapestry, too bad FitzPatrick is a moronic marxist.
>storm of the light's bane
baseado
>indian
Based. Going to be a proud owner of a scout soon.
Wish they made them adult sized tho.
I'm 6' and this will be my first cruiser. Should I just get the chief? Kind of like the dark horse edition.
I know this feel. This bar also gets close to spaghetti at 245 so I'm scared to load more. Gonna swap both out.
why is there wooden discs on the bar?
You know your garage floor is graded towards the door. Your lifts are uneven your gonna get disproportionate
not having a rowing machine is a common error
But I do have a rowing machine
rip robert
Robert looked jacked. RIP
>pick up barbell
>bend over
>pull bar to mid torso xF
There’s your rowing machine
buying too much shit all at once, sometimes going cheapo on quality to afford it. Get yourself a set of adjustable dumbbells and a GOOD bench, not some chinkshit you'll have to replace in a couple months like . After that, get some flooring, a decent barbell, a 300lbs plate set, storage for said plates, and a power rack. Finally if you're truly balling out, get some cable attachments and go wild with lat pulldown or whatever the frick else you want. But if you're broke, adjustable dumbbells and a bench are 100% all you need, the rest can be done with calisthenics and shit like chest extenders
the things you own eventually own you
a home gym takes up a lot of space
You don't need anything more than a squat rack, barbell, plates, a bench and dumbbells. That's all I use even in a commercial gym where they have every kind of crazy shit like cables, machines and so on.
Get a big mirror so you can form check. Unironically the worst part about a home gym is how you take too long between sets. A fifty minute workout can take between an hour and a half - two hours. Maybe a big ass clock or something.
Buy a quality barbell.
Plates can be bought second hand.
Always buy pieces of equipment that will serve multiple functions and allows you to execute multiple exercises(i.e power rack).
Purchase pieces of equipment over time rather than all at once(unless you're rich).
Make sure the space you're using can accommodate said equipment(i.e ceiling height, floor space, even flooring/uneven flooring, clearance of garage motor etc.).
An adjustable bench is more versatile than a flat bench.
Adjustable db's aren't a necessity.
If buying multiple pieces of equipment, make sure you get horestall mats or rubber flooring sorted out first not after.
Don't buy shit with ridiculous footprints and only serve one purpose(i.e ghd's, reverse hypers, machines that only work 1 muscle group)
Storage is a must, meaning you should try and get more plates, db's, and equipment attachments off the ground and preferably stored on the wall(i.e wall control, plate pegs, db wall storage).
Cardio equipment is fine but remember the footprint rule and if space is limited a jump rope is fine.
You don't need super expensive equipment like Sorinex and Rogue because you can get good quality stuff from Rep, BoS, Titan unless made in Weimerica is important to you.
Lighting-Some prefer bright, while others prefer dim and warm.
Heating and cooling-Split pump is best but multiple fans are fine and I've seen some people use pellot stoves to keep warm in the winter.
Also don't follow gays like Coop from GGR, he's a paypig homosexual from r*ddit and doesn't even lift.
Watch guys like Basement Brandon, Homegym Hacks and Reviews, Gluck's, Kaizen DIY, Vintage weights.
Cable machines don't need to be bought right away.
>Adjustable db's aren't a necessity.
I'd disagree with you on this one, since space is limited for me, I do exclusively db and bodyweight exercises. It gets you further than you'd think.
>You don't need super expensive equipment
Hard agree. Weight is weight, the only reason to spend hundreds more on the same crap is because you subconsciously think you can buy a body with money. The only currency that spends is effort.
Adjustable db's are the most important things to buy in a home gym. I used to have 10, 25, 30, 35 lb dumbbells and i'd fricking rage because i had no room to build up higher or when I wanted something more in range. Why would you buy a dumbbell weight you're hoping to surpass soon instead of just buying an adjustable db for the price of 3 dumbbell sets
Adjustable db's come after barbell, plates, bench and rack.
Those are the most important pieces to buy, everything else comes after.
The OP asks for what are the most common pitfalls when building a homegym and purchasing adjustable db's/spin locks first when that money can be used for the other things stated is considered a pitfall.
If OP said a minimalist homegym than maybe I'd agree with you but I'd say if calisthenics is all you can do than rings, a rucking backpack, sandbags and jump rope would be all you need.
>Adjustable db's are the most important things to buy in a home gym.
are you dumb?
the home gym room is the home gym room
it's not also a storage room
it's not also a laundry room when it's raining outside
it's not a room that needs to be decorated
it's not also a whatever other shit hobby you may have room
and it most certainly is not also a spare bedroom
the moment you give that room another use is the moment you stop using it
>it's not a room that needs to be decorated
I disagree on this. One of the benefits of having a home gym is that you can decorate it with whatever motivates you instead of the generic "quitters never win" shit in commercial gyms.
You need to decorate it to make sure the vibes are good. If you work out in a bare walled amerishart tier home it is going to be depressing AF and will affect your gains
Buy used. Get a quality bench (I fricking hate mine) and bar, watch your ceiling height for OHP specifically. Squat stands are a meme, they take up the same amount of space as a 4 post rack with none of the benefits
don't waste money, and space, on crap like cable machines or preacher curl.
rack/stands, barbell, plates, platform.
buy once cry once. I bought a cheap flat bench thinking I'm not gonna use incline anyway and before I even had the chance to set up the gym, I changed my mind and bought pic related
planning your layout, floor space management, check the heights of things if your ceiling is low like mine is... granted the homegym was an after thought after I bought the house.
Floor protection, dropping 400lbs repeatedly on anything will eventually break it.. even concrete.
buy once cry once... I have 3 sets of adjustable DB's because I was a cheap ass
bands and chains are cheap and versatile to add some variety to your lifting.
is a dedicated cable station worth it over some DIY contraption? considering pic related from powertec as I already have the maching rack and bench, so it occupies minimal space (the leg pads match the bench, so a seat is not needed). I have the rack in my bedroom, so it's important. seems really overpriced at 800$, though, and I could get a cheap wobbly one at a third of the price
You can just sling resistance bands over the rack.
the biggest mistake is actually building it
half decent plates are so fricking expensive its not even worth it, idk what happened but i think it was after covid when they got really expensive
a basic power rack, barbell, bench and plates combo its gonna cost you 3k minimum, and will only allow to do bench, ohp, squats,dl,
i can go to a gym thats 20€/month, its gonna cost me 2400€ in 10 years
the only thing that i think is really worth buying is pic rel
>15 min drive both ways to gym 5 days a week
>130hrs total over a year
Home gym isn't about saving money, it's about saving time for most people. That plus the added convenience of not having to deal with poor people not wiping equipment down
easily the most moronic post with 0 reading comprehension whatsoever
Picrel was $500 during peak coof. It included 2 bars, 10 deep dish hampton 45's, and 2 25's. You're not obligated to pay what people are asking. Dropping them a message with an offer saying "I can be there in x minutes with this much cash" is usually enough to get them to sell to you. Everyone is so afraid of haggling and I don't understand it.
>verification not required
based haggler
frick "conflict" averse zoomies
Total so far is $959 for everything in pic, including the mats (expensive mats wtf). Not shown is 6x CAP 45s off gassing in the garage (all on sale $34.99 each).
The cage is nice and affordable, BUT I do not recommend any case that is not 1 inch hole after the fact. This cage is 3/4", which is not a big deal if you dont plan on adding tons of accessories. The only thing left I am compelled to get is the lat pull down add-on. That is going to be $270, then my set up is completed.
Have patience and wait on deals, or be hand on like . You dont need super fancy shit, but dont cheap out too much on Chinese shit either. The bench is Chinese ("YouTen bench"), but it is more solid than the typical triangle style Chinese shit. It took like 2 weeks of looking around. Also the bench's height is lower at 16".
Forgot about the bar (Rouge Ohio), another $295. Ive had that for years, before any weights or other equipment.
And yeah, thats a dining room.
i would rather kill myself than have that be where i spend my time training
call me when your home gym looks like this minus the anime poster
Scroll up to this post homosexual
but I do appreciate you posting a stock image another anon used as a reference point in the last /hgg/ thread.
>posts a literal r*ddit gym
yes? reddit is unironically better than this place by every single measure and that tells enough since it doesnt get much worse than reddit
>comes into thread about how to start off building homegyms
>posts an end result gym despite not owning a homegym himself
Then go back.
We have enough low quality posters.
You're a homosexual. Call me when your gym looks like this.
You almost have a point in terms of money. Except what the frick are half decent plates that you need in your home gym that your commercial gym totally does NOT have, that would put you over 1000?
Also you can do more than that with a rack and the barbell lmao you fricking idiot, liar. You must be a massive dyel if that's all you can think of.
Truth is if you do spend 2400 you will get a killer home gym that includes adjustable DBs with all the aded benefits. Privacy, solitude, convenience, time. And it will last over 10 years for you, your partner, friends and family if you want. So, since we're pulling numbers out of our asses in 10 years your family can potentially save 9600.
1. It's not that expensive. At least not in America
2. Home gym generally means in a HOME. Meaning you'll live there for well over 10 years, or it moves with you to your next house.
3. The money isn't the factor it's the availability. I never have to wait for someone else to finish, never have to alter my workout because of someone else, never b***h out because it's shitty weather and I don't want to head back out somewhere.
You save commute time, can multitask, and can do quick workouts rather than no workouts. I am far more dedicated since I got a home gym than when I was younger with more free time going to a gym. Right now is my busy season for work and when I need to work nights and saturdays I can still work between sets. That's impossible at commercial gym. Also it's hard to put a price on not having to deal with other idiots.
I'm in Toronto and ice spent a few hundred bucks on a bench and dumbells and I'm wayyy ahead of the game financially
>half decent plates are so fricking expensive its not even worth it
Yes because buying cheap CAP plates will give you cancer
Yeah if you buy the expensive pl8s you probably wear normie skater shoes, airflow socks, mesh/runner shorts or cotton joggers, expensive wife beaters, and a headband or hat. And your taste in music is never anything too risky, and you drink cheap beer and expensive vodka. Your dream car is a paddleshift muscle car with a 3000 dollar supercharger instead of turbo for some reason(15k for the all new exhaust and to have someone literally do 2 hours of work), and you like ornamental bongs that don't get clean yet you don't notice because you think weed is bad unless it's the first rest day of your no more than 2 rest day 5 day split you created over the course of more than a decade.
Having low ceilings in your peasant hovel.
Being a moronic consoomer buying a billion useless overpriced NAMEBRAND accessories.
This. Don't be a reddit tier cunsoomer
looks the same as those collections of stanley cups in every colour
I have only bought rogue barbells so far, but I gotta tell you, i'm glad I did.
I could have cheaped out and gotten olympic bars that only cost $200 but i would be worried about their quality constantly and we've all seen the horrible webms where cheap barbells have failed.
Long story short, it doesn't have to be rogue, but as long as it is similar quality, don't cheap out on the barbell.
Weights, you can weigh, you can calibrate by grinding or welding on additional weight. It'll be ugly but at least there is something you can do with it.
If your barbell sucks, you're just fricked.
Garages have slanted floors so if you have a spare room it's 1000x better and that's not even mentioning the issues with moisture and temperature that are entirely avoided by just putting it in a room. It's kind of cucked if your wife kicks you into the garage when you paid for the house.
You aren't paying for quality with racks. Cheap barbells are noticeably worse though. The only problem with cheap weights is that they're ugly. Buy a welded bench or else it falls apart. Seen it happen.
You don't need pully systems you fatass just do rows and/or chinups. Get a platform first. It just takes 2-3x sheets of plywood then a thinner top layer and then you glue+screw it together. Always lift in the rack unlike that brainlet OP pic. Specialty bars are a grift. Resistance bands to augment barbells are really nice because barbells have problems like really stressing the pec tendon at the bottom of a bench.
Also, you can get a great body, better than whoever owns that shit in your pic, with just calisthenics equipment. A simple pull up bar in your backyard can give you fantastic, A+ body. Weights are more scalable to weak people though. Just don't be that position where you're like "I want a home gym but I don't have a spare $1000 for the equipment and weights..." Go grind chin-ups, dips (straight bar dips exist) and sprints/lunges/jumprope
Oh and they are expensive because nobody is going to give you an entire gym rack setup for free. People spam that shit online but it doesn't actually happen in real life. They might sell those scam, marcy playtoy barbells that bend at 90lbs but that's not real equipment.
Cheapest and closest gyms here are PlanetFitness and LA Fitness for $10/m and $35/m. Friends were saying how I should have just went to LA Fitness instead. But the thing is if Im prudent and can manage a $1000 on home gym, thats equivalent to 29 months of membership, for one person. After basically 2 and a half years, I will be in the black again. I told my friends that they are welcome to use mine, but no one has taken that up yet so whatever. If they did, the ROI would be even faster, theoretically.
Buy a plastic mirror and put it over the floor of your squat rack, so you can enjoy the ultimate experience of squatting nude.
Buying a brand and not what you really want. Most of my shit is Chinese steel so my whole gym was around 2.5k. Two squat racks with safeties. 250kg of weights, two oly barbells and a bunch of random stuff I wanted. Everything is bought new.
Not deadlifting because it's too comfy and then you slide right back down into the mediocrity you were on your way out of
Pins racks or stands so that you don't ack yourself trying to bench alone in your gym
In terms of equipment selection there are three big ones IMO
1: it's no different than tools in that there is overprice to hell and back "made in America" gear and the literal identical equivalent made wherever else that costs half as much or less; the pitfall is listening to the homosexuals screeching "Chineseum" and actually paying a premium beyond the bare minimum needed to work out safely and comfortably
2: reddit, youtube, and most online sources available today have been flooded with complete shills for products (not just fitness equipment) meaning that as with #1 they will try to misdirect you into buying more than the bare essentials needed for serious weight training; take their recommendations with a heaping mountain of salt or you'll end up spending thousands more than you need to
3: if you haven't tried both types of rack so that you really understand what it is you want and what you're getting, think carefully in deciding between a 2x3 and 3x3 power rack, yes there are lots of reasons to choose 3x3 but I personally prefer actually working on a 2x3 and miss none of the benefits of a 3x3
Don't put it on the second floor.
Make sure you get a deadlift platform so you don't wreck your floors.
Lol don't do what's in that picture. The bench press should be inside the cage for the safety arms
>using the safeties
You are a PUSSY. Just don't use clips and you'll be fine.
Not him but ditching more than like 1 pl8 is quite problematic. The plates just end up getting stuck and you have to struggle your way out from under the bar, if you even can. Safeties are way better and it's not even close.
I've done it easily at 2pl8. Haven't had to for much higher but I'll take your word for it.
The only time I've "successfully" ditched 3+ plates in that manner I was doing equipped bench and the plates slid off while I was locking out unevenly. Ended up getting launched. So yeah, definitely do not recommend
t. 4 pl8 raw bencher
not doing buy once cry once
If you have potfalls in your home gym, you're either doing it wrong or are a criminal mastermind
>have rack
>lift outside of it
don't
didn't know it was possible but you guys are bigger homosexuals than the battlestation posters on IST
imagine admitting to feeling inferior to IST posters
>have safeties
>don't lift in the rack so safeties can actually be used
come on bruh
Home gym thread? I need help with flooring. Decided to get stall mats but no motherfrickers carry them, having them shipped to the store costs an insane amount (may as well just buy specialized stuff and get it shipped to me)
I see the 3 ft by 4ft, they would probably work, but they are only 1/2 inch thickness as opposed to the 4ft by 6ft which are 3/4 inch thickness. Is the 1/2in worthwhile or a waste of money/time?
You don't have a tractor supply near you? And the thicker the better tbh.
>But then who was legs?
Dyel hands typed this post
Good post. However you need wood under the horse stall mats to distribute the load properly. Other than that, solid info
I have several near me, but they don't have the thicker mats in stock and won't ship them to a store without paying almost as much as to ship them to my house. I guess I'll wait around until they have them in stock, I dunno.
nvm, I'm moronic, apparently they ship to the store for free BUT I'm still stuck waiting around for that shit before I even bother assembling my rack.
How long of a wait? Just plan it around a deload or something, frick
I just moved, got the rack delivered in December, was waiting around for after the move to assemble it. There's no deload, just the start of giving lifting another shot after years of being unable to due to various things. But this time without the hassle of a gym commute. I might just pay the moronic shipping costs and get six 3' x 4' mats delivered straight to my house.
There is no wood in my barn and the concrete below is still uncracked and I have some hot tempered horses. The mats themselves can distibute a lot of load and should be good enough themselves for most lifters. You only really only might need the reinforcement if you are doing really heavy DL or Olympic lifts and have a particularly delicate floor like hardwood underneath.
Maybe I just got unlucky then. Had a crack spread under one side of the horse stall mats (had 2 3/4" ones stacked) and the concrete fell apart and got pulverized. Gonna have to fix it soon but regardless, better to be safe than sorry is my main point. Admittedly the last place I lived in with my deadlift set up was fine.
Might have been just the quality of concrete. But I agree, you're right. Probably better safe than sorry especially when plywood isn't too expensive yet.
getting one at all. Dips and pull ups, what else do you need, maybe some dumbbells?
Buying a cheap barbell is always mistake. The manufacturers tend to lie about how much weight they can handle. You'd be best spending the extra hundred to two hundred dollars to get a rogue, titan, or one of those other known good barbells over the cheap ones you can find on amazon. It's worth the money.
Pay attention to the knurling. If you are doing powerlifting you want more aggressive knurling. If you are doing a lot of high rep work, less aggressive knurling may be preferred. If you're doing a bit of both, then the volcano knurling might be your best choice.
All you need for a home gym is a Barbell, a couple adjustable dumbbells (the ones that come in a single unit like ironmaster or nuobells are more comfortable to use though loadable is an option if you get a bunch of 5-10 lb pl8s), a sturdy enough squat rack or power rack, an incline bench, and some pl8s. Just like the Barbell, it's a good idea to spend a little bit extra for some good stuff. For pl8s, cast iron is usually the cheapest which will be fine if you're not doing Olympic movements. Virgin rubber bumpers are preferred for olympic movements. Crumb rubber smells because of adhesives where virgin rubber doesn't smell as bad. Urethane is expensive but great if you need to load up a barbell. Calibrated steel is top of the line though not the best choice on a budget.
For flooring, get some stallmats. Don't get that shitty rubber flooring. Stallmats are designed to protect a concrete floor from a horse (as much as 1.5 tons) jumping up and down or protect a wall from a kicking horse. And they're cheap too. Just look for some that don't smell too bad and are safe for indoor stables.
>1.5 tons
Don't know why I thought tons. 1.5k lbs. Horses are still pretty heavy though.
biggest mistake is deliberating about it in any way. just do it pussy
Dont forget to have a home to put your gym inside of
I just have a bench and dumbells, wayy more space efficient imo.
Honestly just get a basic membership at a gym for like 10-25 bucks, you can use all the equipment and anything else in the facility. Working out at your house will get boring and musty. And if you’re concerned about the monthly fees adding up, then have a goal and time frame. Pay the fee with a credit card and declare as lost when you’re done, the gym will stop charging you and your membership will be cancelled without having to deal with their bs.
I started mine in my garage but it smells like gas in there from all the lawn tools so I just got a gym membership instead.