Advice/Opinions on Home Equipment

[MXena]

I was wondering if anyone here has home gym equipment. What do you think of those Total Gym type machines? I saw one at the Muscle Mag store near me and they looked pretty sturdy, there was even a platform to do hack squats on it. I was thinking because I can't afford a gym membership and I live in a small apartment that this may work for me. Am I wasting my time? Mind you I don't need size, I'm 5'10" around 195 I looking to tighten up and loose some of this bodyfat I'm carrying around. Would I be better off buying a set of Power Blocks, or dumbbells? Any input?

 

[cheeta]

Machines

Well first off, I wouldnt say I would waste my money on any machines. Instead save your money and go and get a gym membership. First of all when you do have equipment in your home, then it make it easier to procrastinate and youll never get things done. Also, when youre in your home there is no energy when you want to work out, theres no one there but yourself wwhich makes the setting a little boring and dead. Hey, maybe you like those types of settings but i dont. If you really really have to buy some wuipment for your home just get a bench that will lay flat and also raise to an incline, then buy some dumbells and some fitness balls. That should be a lot better than those informercial machines that you se chuck norris using. What they do is they hire body builders that go to the gym and just tell them to say that they use their equipment, trust me i work for a public relations firm, I do it for a job. So thats just my advice, goodluck

 

[gingernut]

Don't know what its like where you are but here in the UK the price of say a home pulley machine plus a decent set of free weights will cost as much as 1 years membership of the local bodybuilding gym.

Home gym equipment tends to be limiting in the exercises that can be performed and doesn't often have the 'feel', durability or range you will find in a gym.

Find a good basic, lifting gym locally where the price of 'extras' is not going to bump up the price and make use of the motivation abounding in a bbing gym.