Home Gym Level 1: bar and some plates.
You can get BRUTALLY strong with only this. Deadlifts, cleans, snatches, presses, front squats, barbell rows, landmine presses/rows.
You can only front squat more if you clean more, forces you to practice.
You can get BRUTALLY strong with only this. Deadlifts, cleans, snatches, presses, front squats, barbell rows, landmine presses/rows.
You can only front squat more if you clean more, forces you to practice.
Home Gym Level 2: bar, plates, squat stands.
Now you can do back squats. Makes pressing and front squats easier if you can't/don't feel like cleaning the weight each time.
You can build decent enough stands with some 2x4s.
Now you can do back squats. Makes pressing and front squats easier if you can't/don't feel like cleaning the weight each time.
You can build decent enough stands with some 2x4s.
Home Gym Level 3: bar, plates, power rack + bench.
A power rack doesn't offer much more than stands without the bench. Now you can bench, heavy rack pulls, and can do chins off the top (should already have a chin bar somewhere though).
This is the most common home gym.
A power rack doesn't offer much more than stands without the bench. Now you can bench, heavy rack pulls, and can do chins off the top (should already have a chin bar somewhere though).
This is the most common home gym.
Home Gym Level 4: add some dumbbells to Level 3.
Scour Craigslist/facebook. I'd opt for adjustable plate loaded for home gym. Standalone ones are pricy and a pain to move if you aren't settled.
Scour Craigslist/facebook. I'd opt for adjustable plate loaded for home gym. Standalone ones are pricy and a pain to move if you aren't settled.
Home Gym Level 5: add cardio equipment.
C2 rower: you highlight your hair and shave your chest. Xfit friends come over and you do WODs and drink IPAs pwo, which is COO. You call your garage a "box".
Old school airdyne: pretty based. I have one. They're loud though.
C2 rower: you highlight your hair and shave your chest. Xfit friends come over and you do WODs and drink IPAs pwo, which is COO. You call your garage a "box".
Old school airdyne: pretty based. I have one. They're loud though.
Home Gym Level 6: start adding really expensive speciality bars.
Safety Squat Bar, Buffalo Bar, Football Bar, Cambered Bar. All really cool and shit you'll use for maybe 5% of your training.
I've seen gyms go under for buying up too much of this shit.
Safety Squat Bar, Buffalo Bar, Football Bar, Cambered Bar. All really cool and shit you'll use for maybe 5% of your training.
I've seen gyms go under for buying up too much of this shit.
Home Gym Level 7: ditch the rack and stands, get a Monolift and competition Bench from eliteFTS.
Get way into geared powerlifting. Start taking dbol. Get a few pitbulls. Chew tobacco while you lift. Have a "crew" you lift with. Blood in blood out. Blast DMX in the suburbs.
Get way into geared powerlifting. Start taking dbol. Get a few pitbulls. Chew tobacco while you lift. Have a "crew" you lift with. Blood in blood out. Blast DMX in the suburbs.
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