where is the best place to buy a bench and some dumbbells

Shedite27 · 01-05-2020 10:07pm

Any idea where I could get some Resistance Tubes? Looking for something like this from a local supplier (UK or Ireland)

https://img.xshoppy.shop/uploader/95bbb95e1dbd52d51de7565051e193b8d8851538.png

Mwengwe · 05-05-2020 5:51pm

Ush1 wrote: »

I'm sorta shocked by this, did that many people go to the gym before this?

Or are they just people who didn't exercise bored now at home and want weights?

Considering a lot of people don't go to the gym because they don't have the time/are too knackered after work, it makes perfect sense that there's been an uptick.

marklazarcovic · 05-05-2020 6:27pm

There are a lot of gyms,with a lot of members,now with nowhere to workout,most wouldn't have any gym stuff at home bar very basics,which is why they gym

brianblaze · 05-05-2020 10:15pm

One thing I don't get is the sites with nothing in stock, stoll leaving their Google Ad campaigns on! That is not a cheap market to advertise on and the same companies are showing up constantly.

Same with the CPM ads. Companies spunking hundreds of quid away daily on advertising for no reason.

Essien · 05-05-2020 11:23pm

brianblaze wrote: »

One thing I don't get is the sites with nothing in stock, stoll leaving their Google Ad campaigns on! That is not a cheap market to advertise on and the same companies are showing up constantly.

Same with the CPM ads. Companies spunking hundreds of quid away daily on advertising for no reason.

I was thinking the same. I'm on the lookout for weights/bench/rack (and still will be after lockdown) and I thought surely the guys paying for ads will have stock. Nope, can't find a thing in stock anywhere.

Take Your Pants Off · 06-05-2020 3:23am

https://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/6217859/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CSports+and+leisure%7C14419152/c_2/3%7C15701400%7CWeights+and+strength+training%7C29022084/c_3/4%7Ccat_29022084%7CWeight+lifting+and+exercise+benches%7C14419306.htm

A guy near me, is selling this for 130 quid. I am badly in need of a bench, like the rest of the country, but at the same time, I don't want to get completely ripped off.
Considering, the situation we are in, is he charging a fair price or shall I haggle him for a bit lower?

marklazarcovic · 06-05-2020 5:03am

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

https://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/6217859/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CSports+and+leisure%7C14419152/c_2/3%7C15701400%7CWeights+and+strength+training%7C29022084/c_3/4%7Ccat_29022084%7CWeight+lifting+and+exercise+benches%7C14419306.htm

A guy near me, is selling this for 130 quid. I am badly in need of a bench, like the rest of the country, but at the same time, I don't want to get completely ripped off.
Considering, the situation we are in, is he charging a fair price or shall I haggle him for a bit lower?

In this market it's worth the 130, surprised the still has it tbh

brianblaze · 06-05-2020 9:12am

brianblaze wrote: »

I see a lot of people on their Facebook asking where their orders are from last month with no replies. (Also, they jacked up prices by nearly a hundred quid when the lockdown started!) Wouldn't be giving my money to people who do that

They have now jacked the price by €139 and that's only for a pre-order....

https://www.fitnessequipmentireland.ie/product/150kg-coloured-bumper-plates-7ft-olympic-bar/

They've also deleted/hidden the posts on their Facebook asking where their orders are, there were about twenty of them there yesterday.

And they've marked the business as closed on Google as they got rinsed with one stars over the last month and you can't review a closed business https://g.co/kgs/GGV7u8

Sorry for the rant, people need to remember businesses like this and their behaviour when this is a over

Alf Veedersane · 06-05-2020 11:06am

Got a couple of handles to (a) get the volume in without hurting my wrists and (b) increase the range of motion of a push up. With bands and tempo, I reckon I'll have enough in the short term that I can get benching back up to where it was in relatively short time. It will be more about ingraining the skill/technique again once I get back.

Demand is still very high for a lot of equipment and by the time I'd get it, it wouldn't be worth it for me.

mengele · 06-05-2020 1:46pm

brianblaze wrote: »

They have now jacked the price by €139 and that's only for a pre-order....

https://www.fitnessequipmentireland.ie/product/150kg-coloured-bumper-plates-7ft-olympic-bar/

They've also deleted/hidden the posts on their Facebook asking where their orders are, there were about twenty of them there yesterday.

And they've marked the business as closed on Google as they got rinsed with one stars over the last month and you can't review a closed business https://g.co/kgs/GGV7u8

Sorry for the rant, people need to remember businesses like this and their behaviour when this is a over

Are they actually posting out anything at all? I have ordered a set of dumbbells about 3-4 weeks ago at this stage and no sign. That company must have some amount of money taken in and very little product let out.

brianblaze · 06-05-2020 2:02pm

I've not seen anything anywhere! They've turned off the ability for people to post on their Facebook page now too. Be a shame if someone were to tell the Irish Times who had this article up with their numbers for the month....

Since then all business has come through online and phone orders and the figures tell their own story. In the run-up to Christmas, the company had revenues of about €50,000 in online sales for the month of November which was up on the monthly average for the year.

In the month just gone they pulled in just over €450,000 in online sales, an 800 per cent increase on that month of November last year.

I'm probably gonna wait for D8 fitness to reopen or Strengthshop/Irish Lifting to get stock before I order. They've kept prices static and one would assume are gonna have one of the big orders coming in soon.

Fitz* · 06-05-2020 2:04pm

I'm starting to regret buying off of them now.

titan18 · 06-05-2020 3:31pm

Elverys have some lighter dumb bells up. Seems a large price increase though (2*8kg) is €90

marklazarcovic · 06-05-2020 5:12pm

mengele wrote: »

Are they actually posting out anything at all? I have ordered a set of dumbbells about 3-4 weeks ago at this stage and no sign. That company must have some amount of money taken in and very little product let out.

They are just doing what others are doing individually, ordering ahead and waiting for supplies,not a hope they had even 10% of what's been ordered off them in this country.

I hate gougers passionately.

brianblaze · 06-05-2020 6:48pm

marklazarcovic wrote: »

They are just doing what others are doing individually, ordering ahead and waiting for supplies,not a hope they had even 10% of what's been ordered off them in this country.

I hate gougers passionately.

From the article, it sounds like they order two months ahead of delivery date. I truly hope people remember companies like this after all this is done. 450k in sales on what you would assume was 50k of actual stocked goods.

robinbird · 07-05-2020 1:52am

Yup. Fitness Equipment Ireland increased prices and took probably millions of euro or more in orders for stock that they don't have.
Possibly they intend to honour the orders when they get stock in a month or two.
Also possible they will keep the money and just go bust.
Doubt he cares about reputational damage at this stage.
Colm Cleary is now a very rich man.

eyerer · 07-05-2020 2:52am

OmegaGene wrote: »

eBay have loads

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153900725608

Has anyone ordered these?
This is what I'm looking for, but I don't really trust unbranded ebay items.
Wondering if anyone chanced it..

I ordered a single resistance cable from Sports Direct and it hasn't been posted still, I'm wondering do they have it in stock.

Alf Veedersane · 07-05-2020 7:54am

OmegaGene wrote: »

The blue extra string band is very good 70-90kg of resistance roughly.

Just got the orange one...which is the last one. Says it's 103.5 - 112.5. Doing RDLs on it I feel like I'm going to be launched through the ceiling when I lock out :pac:

Starlord_01 · 07-05-2020 8:01am

eyerer wrote: »

Has anyone ordered these?
This is what I'm looking for, but I don't really trust unbranded ebay items.
Wondering if anyone chanced it..

I ordered a single resistance cable from Sports Direct and it hasn't been posted still, I'm wondering do they have it in stock.

I ordered these about 3 weeks ago now.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B077HV3RW5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They are working a treat, decent bit of resistance in them and come with some nice attachments. Plenty of similar ones on Amazon.

Jarren1 · 07-05-2020 8:14am

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Just got the orange one...which is the last one. Says it's 103.5 - 112.5. Doing RDLs on it I feel like I'm going to be launched through the ceiling when I lock out :pac:

Orange & 83 mm , There is another yoke on adverts & 100 mm in Black.

Alf Veedersane · 07-05-2020 8:20am

Jarren1 wrote: »

Orange & 83 mm , There is another yoke on adverts & 100 mm in Black.

Seriously? Jaysus.

100mm though. Have a couple of handles I got for using on the wider bands and they might struggle with 100mm.

Only just got the orange one so can probably milk it for a while yet

Alf Veedersane · 07-05-2020 8:30am

OmegaGene wrote: »

I haven’t seen the orange anywhere recently, when I did the front squat for the first time with the blue I didn’t know wether me or the band was going to collapse first, they are good solid bands to be fair

I don't have the blue one. The orange one is for the likes of RDLs because I was using the green one and the reps were too high before feeling any effect so jumped past the blue.

Found a bar I got with a weights set from Argos 10 years ago or so. Never really used it but somehow it made the move to the house but it's helped add to what I can do....like snatch grip RDLs

Starlord_01 · 07-05-2020 11:33am

OmegaGene wrote: »

I haven’t seen the orange anywhere recently, when I did the front squat for the first time with the blue I didn’t know wether me or the band was going to collapse first, they are good solid bands to be fair

Gymless have them on Adverts: https://touch.adverts.ie/other/power-band-orange-extra-strong-83mm/3237037

Alf Veedersane · 07-05-2020 11:49am

Starlord_01 wrote: »

Gymless have them on Adverts: https://touch.adverts.ie/other/power-band-orange-extra-strong-83mm/3237037

That's where I got mine. Ordered on the 3rd of May and it arrived yesterday.

Just saw they have the 100mm black band as well...

Starlord_01 · 07-05-2020 12:06pm

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

That's where I got mine. Ordered on the 3rd of May and it arrived yesterday.

Just saw they have the 100mm black band as well...

Would you recommend it? Torn between getting that and the blue

Alf Veedersane · 07-05-2020 12:30pm

Starlord_01 wrote: »

Would you recommend it? Torn between getting that and the blue

I haven't really used it. The green band is what I had been using for RDLs and I was doing 25-30 reps for multiple sets in order to feel it in hams and glutes. Decided to bypass the blue and go for the orange to have a much bigger increase in resistance.

I may end up getting the blue band if I feel I need it for a better workout on a certain exercise.

But it really depends on what you're doing with them so I wouldn't suggest getting one over the other. I just got the orange instead of the blue because I didn't think the blue would offer a big enough increase in resistance for the RDL over the green so went up the next level again.

Starlord_01 · 07-05-2020 12:55pm

OmegaGene wrote: »

Get both, once you start with the power bands you will end up with a collection, they are so versatile

I think I'll end up doing that, bit of variety.

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

I haven't really used it. The green band is what I had been using for RDLs and I was doing 25-30 reps for multiple sets in order to feel it in hams and glutes. Decided to bypass the blue and go for the orange to have a much bigger increase in resistance.

I may end up getting the blue band if I feel I need it for a better workout on a certain exercise.

But it really depends on what you're doing with them so I wouldn't suggest getting one over the other. I just got the orange instead of the blue because I didn't think the blue would offer a big enough increase in resistance for the RDL over the green so went up the next level again.

Would be looking to use for RDLs, squats etc. Have a few other bands which I'm using at the moment, but having to increase reps or really slow down the motion to really feel it.

Alf Veedersane · 07-05-2020 1:04pm

Starlord_01 wrote: »

I think I'll end up doing that, bit of variety.

Would be looking to use for RDLs, squats etc. Have a few other bands which I'm using at the moment, but having to increase reps or really slow down the motion to really feel it.

Haven't tried squatting with bands to be honest. Have a 25kg sandbag and been doing all single leg work. Found a bar so might give front squats a try since seems like band might be catching on you less.

As for RDLs, it depends on the band you're using. Like I said, green didnt have enough resistance and thought blue wouldn't be a big enough increase so opted for orange. But blue may well come into play down the line anyway, depending on what I do.

Starlord_01 · 07-05-2020 1:42pm

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Haven't tried squatting with bands to be honest. Have a 25kg sandbag and been doing all single leg work. Found a bar so might give front squats a try since seems like band might be catching on you less.

As for RDLs, it depends on the band you're using. Like I said, green didnt have enough resistance and thought blue wouldn't be a big enough increase so opted for orange. But blue may well come into play down the line anyway, depending on what I do.

Everything's a bit trial and error :pac: I'll probably pick up both and see how they go.

caviardreams · 08-05-2020 7:54am

I've tried squatting with bands - not bad when you get used to it - use the blue one. Feel it more in my quads than with the KB whtever way the loading works. You can also use a KB / DB and a band together if you have them to combine weight.

Use the blue band for deadlifts too - dominic munnelly has a good video on this

Alf Veedersane · 08-05-2020 8:01am

caviardreams wrote: »

I've tried squatting with bands - not bad when you get used to it - use the blue one. Feel it more in my quads than with the KB whtever way the loading works. You can also use a KB / DB and a band together if you have them to combine weight.

Use the blue band for deadlifts too - dominic munnelly has a good video on this

I tried squatting with bands again last night and there's just too little resistance in the bottom half of the squat. Only workaround was to do it like an overhead squat, holding the band overhead).

But I think I'm better off sticking to single leg work anyway...The equipment limitations mean I'll let get more from working each let harder individually than they would get worked together. Also good for balancing any imbalances

brianblaze · 08-05-2020 10:26am

See one fo the NI sites is doing a raffle for some gear.

Shedite27 · 08-05-2020 11:27am

eyerer wrote: »

Has anyone ordered these?
This is what I'm looking for, but I don't really trust unbranded ebay items.
Wondering if anyone chanced it..

I ordered a single resistance cable from Sports Direct and it hasn't been posted still, I'm wondering do they have it in stock.

I bought a set, paid a bit more that was shopping from Staffordshire, expected delivery 5-7 days. Paid, few days later got the dispatch notice. Shipping from China, expected 26th June :mad:

brianblaze · 08-05-2020 11:48am

Shedite27 wrote: »

I bought a set, paid a bit more that was shopping from Staffordshire, expected delivery 5-7 days. Paid, few days later got the dispatch notice. Shipping from China, expected 26th June :mad:

Contact the seller and tell them you're going to cancel the order if it said 5-7 days delivery, that's not cool. Plus they might be able to expedite something else instead for you

Take Your Pants Off · 08-05-2020 11:28pm

Do you reckon when Argos open up, they'll have exercise equipment in stock? Atm they're all out of stock. I presume they open up in June?.

Alf Veedersane · 08-05-2020 11:47pm

Take Your Pants Off wrote: »

Do you reckon when Argos open up, they'll have exercise equipment in stock? Atm they're all out of stock. I presume they open up in June?.

They can open up in June if they have a street level entrance and exit but not if they're in a shopping centre.

Conybaz · 09-05-2020 11:21am

Kettlebells for sale

087-2791562
€40
Free tracked delivery Nationwide.

Instagram
@portable_kettlebell

brianblaze · 09-05-2020 11:28am

Conybaz wrote: »

Kettlebells for sale

087-2791562
€40
Free tracked delivery Nationwide.

Instagram
@portable_kettlebell

Not sure you're allowed to advertise on boards dude, especially for something you're charging €40 for that's €25

Mwengwe · 09-05-2020 11:58am

OmegaGene wrote: »

That’s one way to get banned lol

Mr price have 20kg for €29 for anyone that’s stuck

I keep seeing this but can't find any weights-related stuff on their website. Couple of yoga mats at best.

marklazarcovic · 09-05-2020 4:14pm

OmegaGene wrote: »

They aren’t in the website but they are in store, I picked up 2 16s and 2 20s a few weeks back and when I was there Thursday they still had stock, it’s not really somewhere people think the look
Phoenix is the brand, I think the range also stick the brand but only small sizes

They had them today too,some bands aswell,small 1kg and 1.5kg hand weights aswell,this was in swinford mayo

Conybaz · 10-05-2020 11:46am

Kettlebells €40

2 Day Delivery

0872791562

Text for videos and pictures.

brianblaze · 10-05-2020 12:03pm

brianblaze wrote: »

Not sure you're allowed to advertise on boards dude, especially for something you're charging €40 for that's €25

15 quid markup dude....

Although asuming by your adverts thing that you've bought 100 at a discounted rate, it's probably 20 quid markup on, essentially, a bucket

Nice

Conybaz · 10-05-2020 3:24pm

Where did you see them for €25....
Try shipping to Ireland and then quote the price.
And you have a 2 week wait.
And yes there is a markup.
Likewise with every gym equipment product at the moment.
€40 with free 2 day delivery is a reasonable price.
Stay safe. &#55357;&#56397;

robinbird · 10-05-2020 5:23pm

Conybaz wrote: »

Where did you see them for €25....
Try shipping to Ireland and then quote the price.
And you have a 2 week wait.
And yes there is a markup.
Likewise with every gym equipment product at the moment.
€40 with free 2 day delivery is a reasonable price.
Stay safe. ��

Assume you ordered a load of cheap crap from China that you are now trying to flog for extortionate rip off prices. Seems a bit strange that you are not even showing the product you are trying to sell. Are they cast iron kettlebells or plastic kettlebell shaped bottles that you have to fill with water.

brianblaze · 10-05-2020 6:33pm

This is the worst episode of Dragons Den ever.

Unrelated note, anyone want to invest in my new project. It's called Waterbell 2. They'll be €50 but unlike the original they're real buckets made of lead and hold tarmac as well as water.

I'm asking for €150000 for 10%

Conybaz · 10-05-2020 7:21pm

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_6wQxapdyi/?igshid=1piqewj0zuqss

Sorry guys a few lads here were looking for Kettlebells.

And no they are not from China. They are from Europe.

And the cost is the same as if you ordered one from the European country they are patented in but the delivery is 2 weeks.

rubadub · 10-05-2020 8:04pm

I didn't realise they were patented, that changes everything!!

Conybaz · 10-05-2020 8:43pm

Work away.

But the whole idea of cutting out the middle man is saving money.

Thanks for putting up the link which shows it’s €45 to import plus a 2 week wait.

brianblaze · 10-05-2020 8:55pm

Conybaz wrote: »

Work away.

But the whole idea of cutting out the middle man is saving money.

Thanks for putting up the link which shows it’s €45 to import plus a 2 week wait.

Couple of issues with the product from a non gouger perspective and with my Duncan Banatyne hat on

If you pour in concrete for the 30kg concept, it is no longer portable, and you can't then make it a lighter version for alternate exercises

You need to have cement just hanging around the house for that too.

How does someone funnel in 30kg of cement?!

Conybaz · 10-05-2020 10:25pm

Is this Elon Musk ????

where is the best place to buy a bench and some dumbbells

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