The Most Versatile Home Gym Equipment (Minimalist Budget Setup)

LINKS TO EQUIPMENT:

LVL 1: BARBELLS (1500lbs ratings, in order of cost)

LVL 2: POWER RACK AND BENCH

LVL 3: DUMBBELLS

LVL 4: NORDIC HYPER

LVL 5: SANDBAG

LVL 6: TRAP/CAMBER BAR

[AlexanderBromley]

BaseStrengthAI available at www.BaseStrength.com/the-app

LINKS TO EQUIPMENT:

LVL 1: BARBELLS (1500lbs ratings, in order of cost)


LVL 2: POWER RACK AND BENCH


LVL 3: DUMBBELLS


LVL 4: NORDIC HYPER


LVL 5: SANDBAG


LVL 6: TRAP/CAMBER BAR

[pacman]

Hey, man. My mom says ‘hi’ and said you should do more cardio.

[matthewuniquehandle]

Your barbell knurling comments put me in mind of Alan Parsons, who did the audio engineering for Dark Side of the Moon: “Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment.”

[lmeddfs]

I think i discovered what i truly want in life from this video: training in a garage gym with my wife, with our baby in a creatle next to us

[Resistculturaldecline]

Two years ago i scoured the interwebs for the best holiday sales, black friday, etc. Found a basic power rack, 7' bar, ez curl bar, bumper plates, and a good bench, and gymnastic rings for around $1500 total. All just decent mid-grade stuff that can survive home workouts until my kids are elderly. I dont drop my weights, or store them outside.

Not having to go to the gym is heavenly. I can open the blinds or open the windows to the back yard, and do all i actually need. I dont have the equipment the gym has, obviously, but the convenience and peaceful surrounding shifts the balance way into the positive.

[GymGarageMan]

My gym..lifting rocks doing pushups on paint cans pullups on beams still ripped af at 53 years old..where there's a will there's a way!!!

[ohiomp]

5 minutes in and I’m enjoying what I’m hearing. I’m not a huge strongman or strength lifter but love hearing all the perspectives and tips on training. I will be turning 39 this year and am the strongest and biggest I’ve ever been. In my teen and twenties I slacked on the lower body work so I have catchup work to do, but going a little lighter on the weights, adding full ROM and pausing in the stretched or bottom positions has I felt really helped my joints and connective tissue not end up overworked. Thanks for the video!

[PFMFIT]

In a 12ftx13ft space I have a full rack, adjustable bench, barbell, trap bar, multi bar, deficit bar, ez bar and safety squat bar. Also wall mounted cable pulleys, a preacher curl/hammy curl combo, 10-200lb pair of loadable dumbells and a weider multi machine. This more than gets the job done for me with excess variation 💪😎👍

[sdbzzrj]

I paid $750 3 years ago (1k now) for titan fitness plate loaded cable machine, by far best value in my gym of the 50k total. Highly recommend.

[jamesbrannigan]

Trained for years with the basics. I enjoy it.

[rafaelt]

Somehow, hearing Bromley making 'your mom' jokes is refreshing

[UnrealTech]

Our setups are similar. Mine is a bench, power rack, 2 power bars, trap bar, circus dumbbell, treadmill, platform for deficit lifts, curl bar (used for light rows, curls and tricep extensions). Thick rubber flooring for heavy deadlifts with some plywood underneath. The most important is getting stuff that can take a beating, the bars and rack rated to 700lb minimum. Don't need super highend stuff but the bars, rack and bench need to be heavy duty.

I've had the stuff for about 4 years and it's all still good as new, cost around $2500-3000 total and should last 20 years. I don't even know what it's like to bench heavy without a power rack and safeties, will never bother trying. I like going to the gym to use the machines and dumbbells to work on ROM and bloodflow. Lift heavy at home to get the beefiness. Most gymgoers are easily startled and get scared just by the sound of me exerting effort on the machines. Less than 1% of the patrons actually train hard in commercial gyms. i.e. it's usually just me.

[kristianolesen]

After having a home gym for two years, my two big regrets are that I bought a bar with ridiculous knurling (renders it mostly unuseable by my wife because of how excruciatingly rough itis), and I bought a full rack instead of a half-rack (too little space to easily move the bar in and out without risking floor and wall and generally being very annoyed by it)

[pacman]

The robo-crib rocking in the background should be in the gear list!

[ekretz]

I just downloaded the Base Strength AI app. Gonna get into it. Loved the mom jokes in this episode, frikkin hilarious!

[WiecznieNieNasycony]

For home gym power rack it is good to have that incline bench with quad curl+ hammstring extension attachment for free weights

[TheDIYNut]

Currently in progress of putting together a garage gym for my wife and I. Got a steal on a bunch of stuff on fb marketplace, my motivation is also not having enough time because of our 4 month old baby! Love your videos keep up the good work

[alcoyot]

This just made me realize something obvious which is that at bare minimum we should just keep a bar and some plates in our bedroom. You can deadlift, clean and press, and arms. And you could squat whatever you can manage. That’s really not that bad for stuff that can just be kept under the bed. You can also do arms.

[evilryutaropro]

The rep open trap bar is such a great specialty bar. One of the things I found that works well is putting my adjustable bench at about 30 degrees and doing chest supported rows with the trap bar

[treyagpalza]

I outfitted my gym in Titan, and the shipping was phenomenal this go around. No damaged boxes and fast. was missing some bolts and nuts for my stabilizer feet for my T3. Got the replacements in under a week.