Home gyms

[Nate tha' Great]

Hi folks,

I'm moving into a new apartment on the first of the month. One of the cool features of this apartment is that it has its own private basement space, which would be perfect for hosting an underground poker game, running a meth lab, or storing dismembered corpses.

I have decided instead however to buy some sort of home gym unit for the basement. Anyone have any recommendations? FWIW, the emphasis here is muscle tone (not weight loss or cardio), and I'm not super cost-sensitive.

[Reef]

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[Blarg]

Buy a jump rope. Tell yourself you'll jump for at least 10 minutes in the morning and ten minutes at night.

If you can't do that, any home gym is just going to be a space-gobbling waste of money sitting around collecting dust.

Total cost for this experiment if you get the rope from a hardware store: about a dollar.

If you can survive the experiment, try those Weider Crossbows. They aren't as noisy or heavy as a weight set, you don't need a spotter, changing the resistance is easy, and they function like freeweights. There are many different models, think the Bowflex but much cheaper and just as good. Models range from 300 and up, and you can add on "weight" by getting more resistance thingies.

Here are a few links to reviews and feature evaluations.
http://www.exercise-equipment-review..._crossbow.html

http://www.epinions.com/content_96321048196

http://www.fitnessinfomercialreview....r_crossbow.htm

[Uston]

You need a power rack with a bar for chin-ups. You need an Olympic bar and a couple hundred pounds of weight. You need a pulley machine. The ones where you just load plates are cheaper than the ones with the weight stacks and pins. You need an adjustable incline bench for the power rack. If you have money left over buy a set of Power Block adjustable dumbells. Unless you're a monster, the 5-85 lb set will be plenty. Everything you need for about a dime.

[mmbt0ne]

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OMG. Both of those pwn sooo hard. If I had the money I would get either of them in a heartbeat.

[jakethebake]

Kettlebells are great.

[AceHigh]

Join a gym instead.

It's more fun because you will meet people and they might teach you something. It's too boring to lift by yourself day after day.

Plus, where will you hide the bodies?

[jakethebake]

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Join a gym instead.

It's more fun because you will meet people and they might teach you something. It's too boring to lift by yourself day after day.

Plus, where will you hide the bodies?

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Terrible option. Ifyou have to drive there, it's an excuse not to do it. People that want to work out with people almost all end up socializing more than working out. The things that 99% of the people, including the bodybuilder-types, will "teach" you isn't worth learning.

[wacki]

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Buy a jump rope. Tell yourself you'll jump for at least 10 minutes in the morning and ten minutes at night.

If you can't do that, any home gym is just going to be a space-gobbling waste of money sitting around collecting dust.

Total cost for this experiment if you get the rope from a hardware store: about a dollar.

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Man Blarg, you are good.


And Nate, if you are single, I can't help but think joining a gym is a good idea.

[Uston]

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Kettlebells are great.

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These are bad-ass, too.