Home Gym

[jesse_01]

Need some advice on setting up a home gym.

Was thinking about getting a adjustable bench, with db's good for up to 100lbs and just do supersets.

Than in the future when I got this stuff paid off and money saved. Go out and buy a squat rack and some weights.

 

[moya]

i know here in CA there are always sales on olympic bars with 300lbs of weight (including bar) for under $200...
a full set of dumbells up to 100 is going to cost a lot more than that...
id go for the bar and a squat rack personally... there is a lot more you can do with that than a bench and dumbells...

 

[IceBox33]

agreed, plus the bench can't cost much more so why not get both

 

[joe13]

+1 on the bar & squat rack. if i had the space, that'll be what i'd do.

 

[jesse_01]

Well bench is around $300, and squat rack is $500-700. Thats not even including 12% sales tax. So I'm almost $1000 never mind the weights. Probably be $500 worth of weights easily. So I'm looking at $2000. Be nice if I could get a loan for that, but doubt it.

 

[[CinnamonBuns]]

buy something second hand
the bench i'm using at the moment is fully ajustable, strong, and reliable. cost me 30 bucks.

 

[jesse_01]

Where I live there isnt shit second hand. Maybe a bowflex or some other crap.

 

[moya]

it would most likely be worth a drive... if you are in the US there has to me a major city within about 2 hours of anywhere...

 

[kx250rider]

In my opinion, the bare-bones basics are a good olympic bench & weights, a set of hex db's or at least a pair of db handles for oly plates, and a preacher bench or attachment. A pec deck and hi/low pulley machine is also very important, if you can get those.

Charles

 

[samo615]

This is definitely a good time of the year to buy used weights.