centeroiler
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A home gym is great, providing you have the right stuff and most don't. I'm gonna brag a little bit too.
My home gym is better equipped than most commercial gyms. Like you jacshelb, I got about 1500lbs of iron, hex bell sets, Flat, incline/decline benches, a Smith/Cage, Universal Gladiator 5-stack/station w/ leg press, 6 different Cybex machines, etc. I'm not rich, just got great deals on the equipment. (Cybex $150 a machine on Ebay) bought a little at a time.
My point is, even with all this I still go to the gym. I get pumped up just walking in with the atmosphere. Do both. What ever works for you.
My home gym is better equipped than most commercial gyms. Like you jacshelb, I got about 1500lbs of iron, hex bell sets, Flat, incline/decline benches, a Smith/Cage, Universal Gladiator 5-stack/station w/ leg press, 6 different Cybex machines, etc. I'm not rich, just got great deals on the equipment. (Cybex $150 a machine on Ebay) bought a little at a time.
My point is, even with all this I still go to the gym. I get pumped up just walking in with the atmosphere. Do both. What ever works for you.
A home gym isn't bad if you have the right stuff. But, like others have said, if you don't, a regular gym is best. I love training at home and haven't gone to a regular gym in a long time. The last one I went to had less actual functional equipment than I do!! They had no squat rack, no smith machine etc. I'm, not so subtly, trying to brag about my home gym It may not be much if I were rich, but for a poor guy scrounging around on Craigslist, I've put together some good stuff: power rack, 3 olympic sets, 1200 lbs in plates, dumbells up to 75 (and bigger custom ones when needed), smith machine (75 bucks on craigslist!!), benches, lat pulldown/row and various other stuff.
I'm like you wingd in that I have bad genetics. I'm 6'2" and only got to around 190 naturally (from 142) and right now I'm right around 225 lbs just getting into my off-season building phase. All the best. Oh, and sometimes you never know how you'll react to a needle. If someone else draws my blood or I'm around someone else having their blood drawn, I pass out!! lol. But, at one point during my last contest prep I was taking close to 10 various shots on certain days with no problems! It's weird, and yeah, I was taking so many shots... it was dumb and not all aas- melanotan2, site injections for arms (first and last time for that!), aas, etc. Again, all the best.