Why train at home and not the gym? When you’re at home you’re not surrounded by’ posers’ and ‘look at me’s’…. you know the type! At home you can feel completely comfortable doing your own thing in your own time. No need to worry about waiting for equipment or feeling self conscious with Mr Muscles standing next to you. You can listen to what ever music you like as loud as you like, no more cheesy pop… This is your domain!

At home you don’t have to follow any particular schedule, it’s never shut. If I want to get up and workout early in the morning you can, if I want to train late at night you can. By training at home there are no restrictions on what you can and can’t do.

The pros can far out weigh the cons when training at home. In this article I will run through the types of equipment that I feel necessary to build a big physique.

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Right then, you’ve decided to go for it.

After deciding where to put you home gym (preferably not upstairs as it can sound like your going to come through the ceiling!) you need to start looking for equipment! Here’s is a list of all the equipment you should be looking at.

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Weights:

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Olympic style weights… The usual Olympic set comes with an Olympic bar with a variety of different pound plates. The entire set should weigh 300lbs or so. (Yes – 300lbs!) Don’t settle for the plastic or even crappy concrete ones if you can help it. Buy real weights, you will be much happier in the long run

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Bench:

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A flat bench, which inclines and declines. Preferably with a preacher curl setup but defiantly with a leg extension and leg curl attachment.

Important: Be sure its half descent. It got to hold up a lot of weight, it’s got to hold you plus the amount of weight you will be using. In other words don’t buy flimsy cheep stuff that might cause you an injury.

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Dumbbells:

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You don’t need to spend hundreds, even thousands of pounds on a dumbbell set ranging from 30lbs to 200lbs that no body will ever use… Opt for the Olympic dumbbells. They run about £25 a go for a 15lb dumbbell. You can add weight and strip weight as and when you please.

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Multi-Purpose Pec Deck:

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A multi purpose pec deck with machine bench press and pull down bar for training the lats. With this machine you can do loads of the exercises you can do at the gym. You can do pec flies, machine press, lat pull downs, pull ups, seated rows, triceps push downs and cable work when training biceps and forearms, chest, shoulders. This machine will really complete you home gym nicely.

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Squat Rack:

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Right, now we can be talking serious money but by far one off the best piece of equipment you can buy. You can do heavy squats on your own and safely.

With the adjustable settings for bar placement. You can place the bar about knee height, which is great for doing dead lifts, or a little higher when doing barbell curls and bent rows. I can’t stress how important this piece is…. If you can afford it, buy one!Top

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Stereo:

You just know it makes sense!

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Conclusion

Trainings about enjoying yourself, plain and simple. If you don’t, you’ll give up. Don’t be too hard on yourself at first but try to stay motivated. Once you start to see results you’ll be hooked!

Train Hard! And all the best! Adam

Home Gym – Weight Training At Home is a post from: Supplement Centre Blog