Home/Garage Gym

getreadytogrow

Looking on another site recently (bodybuilding.com) some amazing home gym set ups, so how do Irish home/garage gyms compare????
Ill kick off ;
Bodymax 475 rack with front dip bars
Strengthmax bench
Hex rubber dumbbells 5-45kgs
Olympic plates, mainly Irish Lifting circa 240kgs in total
Preacher bench
Bodysolid led curl/ext plate loaded
Spin bike
Concept 2 rower

will upload a few pics later

I've posted this a few times (so apologies if anyone's sick to the teeth of looking at it), but here's my own one, that's not been getting an enormous amount of use just yet:

Pic 1
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Pic 2
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Pic 3
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I have all the basics covered. A lot of the stuff in the picture came from Argos or D8 Fitness. Argos stuff was the squat rack, bench with tower, cast iron and plastic weights and the dumbbells. They were pieces I picked up slowly over time here and there.

The other bits (olympic bumper plates, Olympic bar, kettlebells, slam ball) came form D8 when I decided to actually invest a proper few Euro into it and try and do it properly.

The floor is foam matting, on top of a carpet tile floor. The foam mats are from Halfords.


I think all the gear came to around €1,000 or so (give or take. Less than that, probably). Just goes to show that you don't really need an enormous amount of money (the closest gym to me is an Aura Leisure Centre, and their average 12 month membership is about €500 or so, so I think DIY'ing it, when you can get so much, for so little, is the sensible way forward, if you can stand a home gym).


The only downside to my one is the height of the roof. If i close my hands to a fist and raise them over my head, I have about an inch of free space, between my knuckles and the ceiling. So I can lift an empty bar overhead, but not a bar with weights on it. Bit of a pain.

But other than that, I think it's great. D8 Fitness were also excellent to deal with.

Yer Aul One

I have a few bags of turf I sling around the bog and an old mazda 323 tyre that I use for some military pressing, squats and tricep extensions. I wont lie, we look the pure business working out in the whellies and singlets, me and the 14 cousins