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Rowing Machine / Weights Equipment - Where to Buy??

  • 26-05-2004 08:28PM
    #1
    Faltermyer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭


    Im looking to buy a rowing machine for use at home.

    Can people recommend where either high-street or online to buy one? Only place Ive ever seen em is Argos. Im in south-Dublin, but am looking for anywhere in Dublin/surrounding areas.

    What can I expect to pay for a decent-ish one? By that I mean similar to whats in an average gym(my previous gyms have been Dundrum and Parkwest if anyone knows the ones that are there).

    Also want to buy a weights bar for use doing squats & bent-over rows, and possibly benching if I can find a decent bench at the right price. I currently bench approx 45-50kg's so Im looking for a bar&weights set with possibly 70kgs worth of weights.
    I think I saw bars&weights out in JD Sports in LiffeyValley a while back but im not sure how good they were. Argos again, also do this stuff.


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  • #2
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,645 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    As regards weights, Argos is a good place to get them and cheaper than JJB sports or Elvery's. Head over to Argos, get yourself the 50 kg cast iron weights set plus 4 X 10 kg extra plates. The 50 kg set will cost around 80 euros, the extra plates willl be about another 45. Make sure that you get Cast Iron weights not sh1tty vinyl weights or overpriced chrome weights.

    That will give you 90 kg of weights which will keep you going for a while. Eventually you will outgrow the weights and will need to either get more 10 kg plates or else move up to Olympic style bars and plates.

    BrianD3


  • #3
    Faltermyer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭Faltermyer


    Cheers, I dont see myself outgrowing 90KGs on the bench anytime soon. I only weigh 64KGs!! :D And im not looking to get hoooge! Though its an Olympic bar/plates that Im used to using, so these bars will feel spindly in comparison!

    Ive been using gyms for about 3-4years now. I normally join a gym for the summer when not in college but its bloody expensive&time consuming trying to get to em with traffic as there isnt a good one very close to me.
    So id rather spend the €300odd(or more!) that it would cost me to join a gym for 4months on equipment so I can work at home, and save myself the time/hasle of going to a gym, im busy enough as it is. And this way I have this stuff all the time, so dont have to go to the gym only the days im in college.

    As for the Argos option - I already have the 20kg Dumbell set that you get in that York 50kg set, so it seems like a waste getting that.

    Im looking online at www.vjhomefitness.com .

    http://www.vjhomefitness.com/cgi-bin/vj_products.cgi?pid=126
    But the collars they do are for Olympic bars so thats no good.

    The 2x10kg for €22.99 in Argos is almost half the price of the same on the above site though.

    So:
    -5 or 6 ft bar from vjhomefitness.com - €25
    -2x(2x10kg) plates from Argos - €46
    -Spring collars from ...
    -Bench - theres a York one for €90 in Argos - though it doesnt go completely upright, i.e. 90degree angle to the seat, for shoulder press. There is another one for only €65 which does seem to go upright, but does not have a rack for the bar. hmm...

    Rowing Maching: VJs only has one sub-€300 one - €199 ( http://www.vjhomefitness.com/cgi-bin/vj_products.cgi?pid=26 ) -its magnetic, where as the €165 one in Argos is hydraulic.
    Im not gona stretch the €320 in Argos for an Air-one, so is there any major problem with either a hydraulic or Magnetic one, if im using it for stamina/fitness?


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