Building a Home Gym

decmatt · 25 Jun 2009 at 01:27

The power rack was 50kg, and the last pulldown comes in 2 boxes (one box contains just 2 pipes) and that weights 20kg if I remember.

The 100kg set comes as 2x15kg, 2x10kg, 4x5kg, 4x2.5kg and the bar is 20kg

Any other questions just ask

roid · 25 Jun 2009 at 10:07

Interested to see the picutres, quite interested in getting this when i get some more cash

Freefaller · 25 Jun 2009 at 10:16

I really need to buy myself a house or flat with a garage. I soooo need my own gym!!!

toxic · 25 Jun 2009 at 10:36

Freefaller said:
I really need to buy myself a house or flat with a garage. I soooo need my own gym!!!

You sure do...its expensive to set up ...but great to have!

Freefaller · 25 Jun 2009 at 14:24

I would spend my life in there, and post in between sets!

decmatt · 25 Jun 2009 at 14:34

FF your the man to ask, if I have a lot of free time, is it still best just using the gym 3 times a week and do my normal workout, or can i do a more intensive workout for better results?

Freefaller · 25 Jun 2009 at 15:32

If you can ensure good recovery, nutrition and sensible work outs there's nothing wrong with increasing the intensity and regularity of your work outs. I train 4-5x a week, up at 530 every day work 11-12hrs per day, cook dinner, prepare lunch, socialise etc... so if you have more free time then go for it! Volume and intensity are teh things that build muscle!

decmatt · 25 Jun 2009 at 18:30

Is there a good intensive workout that you know of?

Mansize_tissue · 25 Jun 2009 at 21:42

Solac said:
The power rack was 50kg, and the last pulldown comes in 2 boxes (one box contains just 2 pipes) and that weights 20kg if I remember.

The 100kg set comes as 2x15kg, 2x10kg, 4x5kg, 4x2.5kg and the bar is 20kg

Any other questions just ask

Cheers. I'm thinking of buying this and just not using the lat attachment (too heavy) as it still works out cheaper than buying all the bits separately.

kefkef said:
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What does your bodycraft rack weigh in at? Can't find its weight anywhere on the 'net!

Morba · 25 Jun 2009 at 21:45

why wouldnt you use the lat attachment? get it on and use it

mine came today, need to sort the garage over the weekend.
it came on a pallet and the man had a small forklift for it all!

Freefaller · 25 Jun 2009 at 21:56

Solac said:
Is there a good intensive workout that you know of?

Post a new thread or add to the gymrats thread

kefkef · 26 Jun 2009 at 08:19

Mansize_tissue said:
What does your bodycraft rack weigh in at? Can't find its weight anywhere on the 'net!

I seem to recall it was around 70kg on the packing, i know it was heavier than the bodymax rack.

Mansize_tissue · 26 Jun 2009 at 13:30

kefkef said:
I seem to recall it was around 70kg on the packing, i know it was heavier than the bodymax rack.

Awesome, cheers!

broona · 8 Jul 2009 at 09:58

For those who've been using their new setup for a couple of weeks now, any comments please?

I'm looking to upgrade my old bench and free weights in my outhouse, and this package looks ideal, so any feedback (especially pics!) would be much appreciated.

decmatt · 8 Jul 2009 at 11:06

Sorry completly forgot, will take some pics when I come back. Im so far am wholly impressed by it. Does everything I would want, only feature its lacking which would have been nice was for the lat/pully system to be able to be varied in height at the pully end so you can do other excercises. But you can get around it, and the amount of excercises you can do is a lot. If you would use it, I say get it.

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

PAz · 8 Jul 2009 at 21:14

I'm tempted to order this myself..

The rack is just under 7ft from 4ft right?

Not got much space in my garage, but at this price it looks like a sound bit of kit to pop on the CC D:

decmatt · 9 Jul 2009 at 12:48

You need to account for the 7 foot bar sticks out at the sides, and your legs when doing bench press and stuff need room length wise, so aim for more the minimum room.

PAz · 9 Jul 2009 at 22:10

Yeh, I just need to make sure I can fit it under the roof and the back of the rack flush against the wall nicely.

Only thing thats bothering me is the rack says its weighted to 180kg. I read that people have had 260kg+ on there - but what do you think? I really wanted to rack pull but 180kg won't last me long.

Mansize_tissue · 9 Jul 2009 at 23:32

Just put mine together.

Had to rearrange the room a few times so I could utilise the space better, but it hasn't turned out too bad.

All in all, I'm very happy with this gear. The weird wood-looking stuff underneath it is the gym mat that I--and I believe Morba, too--opted for.

Psymonkee · 10 Jul 2009 at 00:03

Whats the overall dimensions once built?

Sorely tempted...