re: Home Gym Thread: Ideas and Setups

I've always wanted to get a power rack. Right now I just have a couple of kettle bells, a backpack loaded with a bag of concrete, and a duffel filled with rocks.

Currently I have the flexibility to get to the gym, but down the road I'll need to bite the bullet.

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I forgot that I'm adding a GHD at the end of June to my home equipment.

Metairie CF is closing at the end of June and I bought their lone GHD for $100.

I added it. Thanks for looking out for me brah.

A friend dropped in MCF when he was in New Orleans and was on their email list.

Some time in May, they announced they were closing at the end of June and selling everything. Cash only. He was there the next day and got it for me. I tried to get some 35lb bumpers but they had already sold what they had. The first two weeks was members only. They pretty much sold everything except the floor mats within 3 weeks.

My guess is that they were about to go bankrupt and liquidated everything for cash so when the shite hit the fan, they had cash in hand and nothing for the lenders to repossess.

So just got word that Aggie land fitness done is havin an auction Saturday in college station and liquidating all of their equipment. I can make it but if any of you can it's a chance to get some bad arse deals.

I'm going to need more photos than that to see how you got all that in there.

Do not get the leverage machine. Get a full cage. Get a commercial quality cage and adjustable bench. With that and the rest of your equipment, you can do a great workout.

A quality home gym is centered around a nice power cage and adjustable bench. Next would be dumbbells then functional trainer then you can get into cable machines like lat pull down/low row then something like the sorinex hurricane.

A simple gym with the following will allow you to do more than enough to do any type of program and fits in a very small room:
Power cage
Adjustable bench
Gymnastic rings
Adjustable dumbbells(power lock or iron master)
Functional trainer
Lat pulldown/low row combo
Hurricane


Then you just start buying speciality bars.

777 will poo poo on them but I think they are fine. There are a couple of videos comparing the t3 and rogue r3. The r3 wins every time but it's on the powder coat finish and warranty. If you don't care about the finish that much, the t3 is a good deal. I don't see power racks failing too much to worry about the warranty. I've dealt with Titans customer service and they are very easy to deal with.

I was going to do Titan until I got a hell of a deal on a rogue rack.

I actually prefer the design of the pull up bars in the t3. I dunno how the hell you would have room for a t6 though. The t3 will need to be bolted down as well as the rogue rack.

Also take a look at the X3.

When I got my shipment of stuff like the rack and bench, it was in great shape on shipping. Was in nice boxes with reinforcement and on a pallet. The adjustable dumbbells were an entire different story. Missing plates, box turn to shreds. They made it right and refunded my entire order no problem.