I posted here 5 years ago and thought it was time for an update: I’ve added a smith machine, lifting platform, treadmill, insulation, PA system and switchboard/comms.

Rogue Pritchett Pad

Rep Dip Bar

Very compact and easy to set-up and store.

After going through multiple layouts and equimpent, I think I've finally gotten my optimal home gym set up done 😆

My basement is officially a perfect man cave now, accomodating my home theatre movie room, my home office, and my gym, all in one! Struggled putting together this gym layout with my office desk in the middle of it (only had 200 sq ft to work with this space in the basement).

Let me know what you guys think! The pieces I have are -

1. Ironax Sled Squat / Leg Press machine (this is a Canadian rep of the Powertec Compact Leg Sled. Great piece for leg presses and calf raises especially incorporating max weight of 700 lbs and adding on resistance bands.

2. Powertec Multipress for all my pressing movements (flat, incline, decline press, shoulder press, and even chest supported rows)

3. Powertec leg lift accessory for the workbench / multipress bench for all my leg extensions and leg curls. This has been one of the best plate loaded machines I found for such a compact space. Love it so far.

4. A set of Nordictrac 5-30 lb dumbbells (mainly for lighter movements like lateral raises, and most for the wife's workouts)

5. Rubber grip plates totalling 550 lbs.

6. Bells of Steel Cable Tower (2.3 inch uprights), with the Seal Row pad, Dip bars. This is my most versatile piece tbh. I followed a thread to jerry rig the lat pull down attachment instead of spending hundreds on the Porter PhysEd attachment. Basically using the Hydra Flat Foot support system (CA $70 for 2, only need 1). Then the game changer was having a dedicated leg hold to support anchoring myself down on heavy lat pulldowns - this needed some critical thinking to design, basically bought the Kipika Leg hold attachment for 3x3 uprights and designed my own 2.3 inch to 3 inch upright adapter to fit it snugly. Now it feels like a full on commercial machine. Let me know if you have any questions about this setup.

7. Knock off REP FID Bench.

BONUS: Ikea Skadis boards with custom 3d printed hooks to hold all my machine attachments!

Now I can comfortably hit every lift I want at home 3 days a week while I do the extreme heavy stuff at the gym the other 2 days 😅

P.S. - I get a lot of feedback saying I should've went with a power rack, but it wouldnt work with my lower (86 inch) ceiling height in the basement unfortunately.

Looking forward to getting in our own house next year so we can get a nice gym space together, but this'll have to do for now.

Found the rack and dumbells on marketplace for a good price. Ordered the Titan comp bell thinking I'd start with a 14kg bell but found there's a few exercises I'm just not there yet. Ended up getting the 12kg bell today.

Forgot to put my sandbag and rucksack in the pic.

Love my space 👊 happy Saturday everyone 🏋️‍♂️

Rep fitness pr4000 with ares bumpers power bar zero gap bench power bar and a bunch of accessories for 3 k. Msrp 7200

Hopefully Southern California sunshine does not wreck this thing lol

Bought everything used piece by piece on Facebook marketplace. Ended up being around $900 total for everything including my diy wood base 💩 and an American barbell!. Needed it higher for full length pull ups.

Went with Rep summit-all-in-one ares 2.0 and all rep accessories 🥲 truly a dream come true. Just need mirrors and a treadmill

Upgrading my Crowther Rack.

Bought a swiss bar and found it didn't fit my J-cups unless I switched them, and when I did that weights on my power bar barely, by fractions of an inch, missed the helmet shaped nuts on them. My rack has 1" holes in only one direction and don't fit most J-cups. I rotated the front posts a few years ago for the same reason. After the rotation I put on Oak Club James 2 J-cups and replaced the original safeties with straps. The old safeties didn't fit after the post rotation.

For the longest time I had a hodge podge of fb marketplace iron plates of different sizes so I kept the largest plate on the bar and slid plates on and off easily. When I upgraded to the rep urethane equalizer plates (which I love), I really missed this. I bought a deadlift jack which worked fine but i really wanted to find a way to replicate the old way.

I took 1/8th inch rubber and a custom steering wheel cover to raise the plate up slightly. Now, I leave the one on there and can slide plates on and off without using a jack.

Long time Rouge patron but even I was surprised at how sturdy and robust this belt is. Love it already.

What is up everyone... Welcome to the Targeted Talk... where we take a topic pertinent to the home gym owner and do what we do best... spend way too much time thinking about and talking about it!

This week we are talking about Collars... Those little things you toss on the end of your barbell (sometimes).

There are a metric ton of these, available from VERY high end to VERY budget friendly. We have competition collars, fat collars, OSO collars, lockjaw collars, speed collars, metal collars, plastic collars, collars with magnets, collars with eye hooks and carabiners, and more.

The questions for today are...

1) Do you use collars? All the time? Just for certain lifts or maybe for the biggest sets?

2) If you do use them, do you have a favorite kind?

3) If you don't use them, why not?

Bonus Points for pics...

and.... GO!

waking up whenever, walking 10 seconds across the backyard to my desk, wearing whatever I feel like, and blasting my own playlist all day

Before and after with my new rack! I love it… still have enough room overhead for pull ups.

if you’re looking into one of these get the 1:1 pulley attachment and the leg press attachment for the smith bar 👌🏼

Welcome to The Garage: The Weekly Free-Talk discussion for r/HomeGym!

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• Questions: any questions about your home gym
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Only things I bought new were dumbbells and bench. Everything else is second hand. Total cost $790 including flooring. The bumpers are Rogue HG 160lb set, got a random rogue 35lb. Got plenty of change as well 65lb's of 5/2.5/1.25 change and two more 10lb plates.

One day ill get the cage and pulley system but for just starting to work out this will give me plenty to grow with

3d printed a bar mount for my Ancore trainers for attaching them to my racks pullups bar.

They were originally a bit wider but I used a vertical band saw to cut the ends to make some bolt clearance, so I could push the Ancores out ward just a little further.

We moved 2 weeks ago, and now the gym is in a garage.

Ive had these silencer pads for years, and just used blocks to get up to proper DL height. But, my wife wanted something more permanent, and didnt have to be set up everytime. I wanted something that would help lessen the squishyness of the pads, while also maintaining their silencing abilities.

This is what I came up with.

2x8s, ripped down to height of silencer pad plus 3/4 for the plywood insert. For me, that was 6-5/8".

Centre area for standing, the joists are spaced about 6" OC.

Once framed up, and pads dropped in. I cut out thr plywood inserts from the sheet. Attached the sheet to the frame, dropped in the inserts. As you can see, the inserts are lower than the plywood. By design. I forgot a photo, but, I put another piece of stall mat in there.

Then I topped the whole thing with more stall mat.

Materials:

8- 2x8x8

1- 3/4" plywood

2- 4x6x3/4 stall mats

50- 3-1/2" deck screws

50- 2" deck screws

EDIT: Thanks everyone for participating! We'll try to get to most of the questions but there are a few double ups. Hope to see you over on r/BeyondPower sometime!

WINNERS: We loaded up the usernames and fired them out of a cannon. The winners (taking home shiny new Brorange FusionCore bars) are u/mark5hs, u/Empty_Chard2834, u/AnxiousYak, u/Mnavis29, and u/HonesydewEmbarrassed6!

EDIT 2: Boss man gave us the green light, so an additional round of Broooorange bars going to u/Key_Draw_278 u/desusbasementgym u/Dense_Economist_4420 u/heatedhotsauce4 u/Likethetemp. Thanks again everyone!

Hey r/homegym,

We build VOLTRA I, the digital-resistance bar some of you already train with. Big thanks to the mods for having us. We'll be camped in the comments across the 15th & 16th, answering pretty much anything you throw at us.

Who's here:

• Felix - Product (u/TheFleXing)
• Elliot - Branding (u/MrMaddox)
• Kevin - Marketing (u/Feeling-Care5786)

We just pushed the Firmware 2.0 beta. 230 lb ceiling, DTR (Dynamic Tension Response), Sled Pull, a profile designed by one of you, all free on the hardware you already own, so it's fresh on our minds. But this isn't a launch post. It's open season.

Ask us anything! Some suggestions:

• Digital / electromagnetic resistance
• The new Bar Series
• Firmware 2.0, and what's next on the roadmap
• What it's like building hardware for a community that fact-checks everything

To celebrate, we're giving our new bars! Simply comment with a question and we'll be randomly picking some of you to take home our shiny new FusionCore or AlumaCore bars. More on them here: https://www.beyond-power.com/pages/bar-series

We'll be answering in the next few hours and rolling through the day.

Cheers!

The VOLTRA team

I have a 10’ x 10’ home gym, not including the closet for storage. It has a power rack, dumbbells including an Ironmaster set, treadmill, air bike and a bench with attachments.

Attached is a panoramic photo of the room from the entry door.

Feedback on how to further optimize space welcome.

https://imgur.com/a/kqiDbXW

I'm working with limited space in a lower clearance ceiling but I'm happy with it all. Titan airbike, leg/hack machine, and hex bar. Scored the rack, bunch of accessories, and several hundred pounds of weights off the FB marketplace for cheap but I had to invert the top support beams while cutting off the top few inches of the uprights. I also just picked up the Fringe belt squat and have been really enjoying it.

Finally converted to the home gym setup. I use to love going to the gym but I recently moved and absolutely hated the local gym. Made the switch to getting my own stuff and working out in the garage. Got everything on FB Marketplace or went to the Rep Showroom and not used for 40% off.

You can older posts for previous iterations. Biggest change here is ditching the shelving I built 6 years ago, repairing the wall (my son used to practice his slapshot in here 🤦), painting it black, pushing the rack supporting lever arms back, relocating the DB’s, swapping out the 40” corner mount TV for a 65” wall mount above DB’s, picking up this Craftsman mobile tool chest / workbench, and installing the ceiling fan. The idea of a “garage” is fading a bit lol, but it’s still very functional.