Official Home Gym Building Thread

ubersonic · 6 Mar 2013 at 11:56

LiE said:
Anyone have issues with it being too cold to train in the garage?

Shouldn't be an issue if you have a heater in there as its only a small space so temps should rise quickly. As a rule when we install A/C in gyms we won't design/configure the system to run at less than 20c (because we have a duty of care under the regs) but if its your own personal gym then your not bound by regs so whatever you feel comfortable to train at is fine as its personal pref

LiE · 6 Mar 2013 at 11:58

Haven't trained in there for a few weeks I've not found the cold to be a problem. The barbell goes in the house at lunch time on the radiator to help with cold hands and then rest is fine. I was down to just shorts training on Monday.

MoNkeE · 6 Mar 2013 at 13:32

JUST shorts eh? Whole reason I want a home gym, shirtless homo lifting time.

cawill · 7 Mar 2013 at 21:27

Finally got some mirrors for my garage gym with one more to put up.

LiE · 7 Mar 2013 at 21:30

Looks good, I like the yellow.

cawill · 7 Mar 2013 at 21:34

LiE said:
Looks good, I like the yellow.

Cheers, I like it more than I did when I had to order it as fitness superstore ran out of the black rack.

phoenix575 · 8 Mar 2013 at 10:52

Solid setup, really like the yellow.

Looks like you got the same tree I got. Be careful because it can tip over. I had 4 20s on one side only and it tipped.

MoNkeE · 8 Mar 2013 at 11:10

What a horrible tree though! Must suck having gravity working against you whilst trying to get the weights off

cawill · 8 Mar 2013 at 12:28

phoenix575 said:
Solid setup, really like the yellow.

Looks like you got the same tree I got. Be careful because it can tip over. I had 4 20s on one side only and it tipped.

Thanks, and yes it's not the most stable of weight trees but it was fairly cheap.

MoNkeE said:
What a horrible tree though! Must suck having gravity working against you whilst trying to get the weights off

I know, It was a pain when I was on crutches and had to hop around with weight plates.

cawill · 8 Mar 2013 at 18:09

I'm can't decide which weight plates to buy next. I'm after 2 x 20kg Olympic plates.

I have been considering the weight plates below. Are they worth the money? I think LiE bought these plates but others also may have them.

http://www.fitness-superstore.co.uk/rubber_and_chrome_olympic_weight_plates/bodypower_deluxe_rubber_chrome_olympic_plate_20kg_x2_blue/15812_p.html

LiE · 8 Mar 2013 at 18:13

I really like them, the rubber helps protect them and your equipment/floor. Especially when smashing the weight down during a deadlift. I can see them lasting a long time with minimal wear.

Jon33 · 8 Mar 2013 at 20:18

Need some mats for my garage, any cheap suggestions?

cawill · 8 Mar 2013 at 20:54

LiE said:
I really like them, the rubber helps protect them and your equipment/floor. Especially when smashing the weight down during a deadlift. I can see them lasting a long time with minimal wear.

Thanks.
If I was deadlifting with a combination of those plates and cast iron plates do you reckon the side of the rubber coated plates would wear down?

LiE · 8 Mar 2013 at 21:06

I'm not sure.

Psycho Sonny · 9 Mar 2013 at 00:01

cawill said:
I'm can't decide which weight plates to buy next. I'm after 2 x 20kg Olympic plates.

I have been considering the weight plates below. Are they worth the money? I think LiE bought these plates but others also may have them.

http://www.fitness-superstore.co.uk/rubber_and_chrome_olympic_weight_plates/bodypower_deluxe_rubber_chrome_olympic_plate_20kg_x2_blue/15812_p.html

waste of money imo, get normal plates they do the exact same job for cheaper, if your worried about equipment being ruined, invest in decent matting or more matting.

Jon33 said:
Need some mats for my garage, any cheap suggestions?

strength shop was the cheapest last time i looked which was years ago

look for horse stall mats as well as gym mats on google, remember you want rubber not that EVA foam rubbish which is lighter and cheaper.

prices depend a lot on the thickness too, the strength shop mats need to be doubled up imo, but even then they work out a lot cheaper than buying other mats which are thicker to begin with.

these are on offer just now

https://www.strengthshop.co.uk/equi...aneous/premium-rubber-gym-mat-25mm-thick.html

they do other mats as well, but these seem like a great price for 25mm thick rubber.

i have these

https://www.strengthshop.co.uk/equipment-and-bars/miscellaneous/rubber-gym-mat-6-x4-12mm-thick.html

and they are very thin imo (need to be doubled up)

i also have solid rubber 17mm matting which is not made from recycled rubber (much stronger and better) which is really amazing but they usually cost around £70 per mat.

those 25mm mats look like the best ones to go for imo, should keep your equipment from getting damaged as well as your floor.

cawill · 10 Mar 2013 at 00:02

Psycho Sonny said:
waste of money imo, get normal plates they do the exact same job for cheaper, if your worried about equipment being ruined, invest in decent matting or more matting.

look for horse stall mats as well as gym mats.

Valid point.

And I purchased the mats in my photo above for £45 each from countrywide. They do have grooves in but are 18mm thick.

phoenix575 · 10 Mar 2013 at 12:43

These look pretty decent
http://www.horsematsplus.co.uk/shop/rubber-stable-mat-easy-sweep-single/

Erich Kriegler · 8 Apr 2013 at 18:04

What do you guys think I should offer for 80kg of these second hand?

2x20
2x10
4x5

T1Cybernetic · 8 Apr 2013 at 18:30

Those tri-plate weights are the same ones I bought, They were the cheapest out of the lot that I looked at

I got mine from fitness superstore, Heres some to compare to = http://www.fitness-superstore.co.uk...er_75kg_trigrip_olympic_disc_kit/15646_p.html

Psycho Sonny · 8 Apr 2013 at 22:58

first i would see how much the person actually wants for them, then i would haggle, but they are worth at least £80 even second hand. but i have managed in the past to get weights for under £1 per KG second hand but i was buying over £1000 worth of stuff altogether off the guy.