Home gym costs vs Gym membership convince!?

[caveman72]

my dad and his last made home gym and added things I needed like pullups and dip bar with preacher seat.
a decent bench I squat off back
a total gym which is good for in-between sets for flys. and so on I super trisects every thing body gets strong when use to it.
I workout half hour before bed

 

[jaymaximus]

Started off with a bench, bar, squat rack and 100kg of plates, then got dumbbells, then about 6 months later i said fuck it and told the missus to get the car out of the garage/shed as there will be no room for it lol and yeh i just splashed 13k straight up on 5 station cable machine, leg press and leg extension/leg curl

Sad thing is i work away so i only get to use this once every 5 weeks lol but its all there for when i come home for good

Thats one thing I really want is the 5 station cable. A lot you can do with it. And you must have a real good woman brother. I cant imagine what id have to give back to get that

 

[kap73]

Thats one thing I really want is the 5 station cable. A lot you can do with it. And you must have a real good woman brother. I cant imagine what id have to give back to get that

Yeh the 5 station is a beauty, weight stacks go up to 84kg on cross over and 124kg on lat pulldown, seated row and tricep push down! I love it, i do walking lunges up and down my driveway lol neighbours think im queer but i think he is queer for having a beer every nite lol

My woman is pretty good, i do what i want and she does wat she wants. I work hard and provide a stable household and she doesnt question where my/our money goes. Best part about the gym is getting a mate around and just pumping each other up, swearing and cursing lol

 

[johnnyBALLZ]

Home gyms are great, ive invested over 15k on my gym. Nothing better than walking into your own gym and traini g what ever the fuck u want. If u wana superset then u superset, if u wana run the rack then u run the rack, i have 400kg of plate weight aswell. Me and my girlfriend love it. I also have a leg press/hack squat and leg extension/leg curl

Motherfucker!! Holy shit, dude.. That is amazing!!

@brutus79 @OdieM @Oregongearhead

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[OdieM]

Home gyms are great, ive invested over 15k on my gym. Nothing better than walking into your own gym and traini g what ever the fuck u want. If u wana superset then u superset, if u wana run the rack then u run the rack, i have 400kg of plate weight aswell. Me and my girlfriend love it. I also have a leg press/hack squat and leg extension/leg curl

Wow thats amazing. I hope to have that same set up one day. Its will take me a few years though. Right now I gonna buy one piece of equipment a year. My next piece im saving up for is a cable cross over machine like yours. Man there pricey for a good one. You have dropped some serious cash. I bet youve got over 2 grand in Dumb bells alone. Super jelious.

Im actually tracking my power rack headed to me now. I'll throw a pic up next week.

 

[MANWHORE]

Beside the grunting from the retards I actually like my new gym ..

It's been about 7yrs since I been to a gym and now one week I love it ..
very sore and tired

 

[kap73]

Motherfucker!! Holy shit, dude.. That is amazing!!

@brutus79 @OdieM @Oregongearhead

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Haha yeh i love it, pretty much train anything i like

Wow thats amazing. I hope to have that same set up one day. Its will take me a few years though. Right now I gonna buy one piece of equipment a year. My next piece im saving up for is a cable cross over machine like yours. Man there pricey for a good one. You have dropped some serious cash. I bet youve got over 2 grand in Dumb bells alone. Super jelious.

Im actually tracking my power rack headed to me now. I'll throw a pic up next week.

I think my dumbbells cost $1900 from memory, yeh ive splased a bit of coin, to be honest its prob closer to the 18k mark, i did keep track at the start lol

i cant wait till i live at home full time, i work away for 4 weeks at a time and home for 1 week, i live with 3000 contstruction workers so the gym i mainly train in is packed to the roof

 

[Skull]

Motherfucker!! Holy shit, dude.. That is amazing!!

@brutus79 @OdieM @Oregongearhead

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Ya I abou fukin passed out after i fell in love when I seen that. Now thats what I call a HOME GYM lol

 

[D-Ballin]

Damn kap73. That's impressive.

I lift at home, but nothing like that. My shit lives in my back yard, under a tarp. I'm loathe to spend too much money on it until I get an indoor space to work with, but it's coming together. Bench, home built squat stand with saw horse safety pins, and a plyo box so far. Need to acquire or build a real power rack and preacher bench, or an oly bench with attachments next. Then some kind of all in one, for pull and push downs etc. But that's going to wait until I have a house with a garage to put it in.

Only thing I'm really stumped on is seated calf raises. I have an alternate lift or ghetto rigged station for everything else, but just can't do seated calf raises without that fucking machine. . .

Putting it all together because I just hate gyms. Don't know what it is about those places that gives the general populace the idea that they get be as annoying or creepy as they want. Maybe it's just me, but I don't have the patience for their shit nowadays. And my schedule does not allow for off peak usage anymore, unless I pretty much run some fucked up graveyard shift type schedule. So I figured I might as well start putting my own together. Expensive as fuck, but it's iron, you only have to buy it once. . .

 

[MANWHORE]

Home gyms are great, ive invested over 15k on my gym.l

nice gym but no pink ... Or even purple dumbbells .. I'll be in the waiting area

 

[kap73]

Damn kap73. That's impressive.

I lift at home, but nothing like that. My shit lives in my back yard, under a tarp. I'm loathe to spend too much money on it until I get an indoor space to work with, but it's coming together. Bench, home built squat stand with saw horse safety pins, and a plyo box so far. Need to acquire or build a real power rack and preacher bench, or an oly bench with attachments next. Then some kind of all in one, for pull and push downs etc. But that's going to wait until I have a house with a garage to put it in.

Only thing I'm really stumped on is seated calf raises. I have an alternate lift or ghetto rigged station for everything else, but just can't do seated calf raises without that fucking machine. . .

Putting it all together because I just hate gyms. Don't know what it is about those places that gives the general populace the idea that they get be as annoying or creepy as they want. Maybe it's just me, but I don't have the patience for their shit nowadays. And my schedule does not allow for off peak usage anymore, unless I pretty much run some fucked up graveyard shift type schedule. So I figured I might as well start putting my own together. Expensive as fuck, but it's iron, you only have to buy it once. . .

Thanks mate, all i can say is once you start u wont stop (if your budget allows you lol) until you have everything you knkw u need to perform a proper training program. I wanted my gym to be the bees knees.

My mates have home gyms but also have gym memberships so they can train legs. Fair play to them tho most ppl would just skip leg day lol

I have a huge flat backyard so im currently in discussions with the missus to build another shed and transfer all the gear to that, thinking around 7m x 9m in size. So then i can park my cars back in my garage/shed lol

 

[kap73]

nice gym but no pink ... Or even purple dumbbells .. I'll be in the waiting area

Hahaha i did think about getting the girly weights for my missus but i picked up that dumbbell tree (1kg to 10kg) for $150 at a garage sale and they was pretty much brand new.

The best part is spotting the missus when she is squatting then all of a sudden she is bent over the bench copping a pounding.

 

[MANWHORE]

My gym has machines I've never seen before .. like this curling machine ... Ohh ohh and this one machine where the girls..... Members squeeze their legs together to get the weight up ..

They keep asking me if I wanna try it but I say nah I'll just watch

 

[MANWHORE]

The best part is spotting the missus when she is squatting then all of a sudden she is bent over the bench copping a pounding.

yes I know it well ...

My girl can't make it past me in the house without getting felt up which usually leads to taking it to the bedroom ... And phoning her daughter ... Yea right!! I fuckin wish!

 

[MANWHORE]

Watch who you invite over .. I had a best friend who was amazing friend ... Fuckin guy would have done anything for me but get hurt in my house and would sue the fuck out of me ...
but he knew him being hurt would have to lead to him being zipped up and carried out the back door so we had a kind of understanding

 

[caveman72]

you would be amazed what you can get use to.I kept my yearly membership at civic center they have it all. but at home its hardcore fore legs all I got is a bench that's got a high bar about 4 foot in back of it you just put bar on back pegs and squat away.when I was in my twentys I had it in my head you have to be I'm a gym with other competition. to keep you on toes.
maybe so for one new to the game
but once you know how to build and maintain. can't be afraid to just attack what ever you got and make it work. don't got leg press well do more squats in between do super set body squats no rest. tell me there not on fire do that for ten sets after each service.
every workout I do I super set no rest. I'm growing more at home than I was at gym.
I have nobody to get in my way. no one to talk to. but. I'm 42 now so I'm not screaming for s social life not that body building gives you one. but training at home helps me get more rest. and time to eat more. I wait tell it's almost bed time then I tear it up.them eat and sleep. thanks for the thread

 

[caveman72]

I'm sorry in my position my gym is $30 a year civic center. I guess eventually homegym wins.
$ wise the shit don't break easy

 

[MANWHORE]

my gym cost $20 a month with initial $25 sign up and comes with so much equipment including all these little tiny asses in yoga pants ...

O yea and the women are nice too if that's your thing

 

[anonynmous39596706]

Find someone who welds. I made a squat rack and t bar row dirt cheap. I also made racks that I was able to put next to the bench to 'self spot' so I could go heavy at night when I was alone. I also used the side racks for curls so I did not have to bend down. Plate and dumbbell racks are also easy. Had hardly anything invested and gave it away when I moved. Wish I had pics

 

[TyroneMoreGains]

This is a question I've been pondering a lot ever since the first gym I was a member of closed.

I don't use machines for any of my workouts all I would need is a good Barbell so weights maybe up to 500lbs, a bench and a power rack.

My girlfriend already has a treadmill looking thing it's called the lateral some shit. She got it at a police auction recently.

So it'd be nice to build a home gym in which we both can workout.