Thread: Strength Training at home vs the gym

well I built a 36 x 24' room away from my house for my Gym. It has a few goodies to keep me lifting.

1) over 3000 lbs in free weight
2) DB's from 5-100 lbs
3) Smith machine
4) Shoulder press machine
5) Weighted dip machine
6) Incline supported row machine
7) Hip sled machine
8) Olympic Bench press
9) Rack to do Rack deads with
10) Pullup / chin up station
11) Eliptical
12) Treadmill
13) Trap Bar
14) Sled to drag
15) TV to watch or listen to music

Originally Posted by mike456

Squaggle- Can you gimme a link to those saw-horses I always see you talking about- I really cant afford anything expensive(over 50 bucks lol) right now, and I lift at home, can you use them as a safety spotter when benching?

If there's any kind of home improvement store around you (Lowe's, Home Depot, etc.), I'm sure they'll have them. http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS...gkj.0&MID=9876

I have a squat rack on the back of my bench (basically just a small place to rest the bar for squats), so I set up these suckers on either side of myself (perpendicular to the bar of course) to either rest on or use as a safety. Do be forewarned: Do not try dropping the bar on them - they will bend. They're not made for impact, but if you fail on a lift and let the weight down slowly, you'll have no problems (they claim to support up to 1200 pounds each). The only reason I'm even saying this is that my twenty-year-old brother threw a hissy fit one day and slammed 165 pounds on these suckers; they bent and we had to replace them (he did it because he couldn't squat it either, which somehow makes it more annoying). So as long as you're not stupid, you'll be fine. I've put 450 pounds on them for rack pulls before.