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>>76872505
Friday Night

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>>76872505
BUMP
>Fight The Spam
Doing Legs Tonight on my uneven carpeted living floor.

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>>76872505
Oh snap, its Black Friday.
Post them deals.

>>76872845
>here's your 5% off black Friday deal. btw shipping is $40 lol

>>76872921
This. There are no good deals anymore. Companies just give you a shitty discount on stuff they want to be rid of.

>>76872845
Nothing good if you already have a gym.

Thoughts on best barbell? Thinking of grabbing a Rogue Ohio Power bar while it’s on sale.

>>76875003
bretty gud

>>76875003
Good choice

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Night liftin

>>76875003
Get the stainless. Buy once cry once. Cerakote a decent backup option.

>>76875003
Just picked up a Rep Double Black Diamond in stainless but only used it once. Have been using a Rogue OPB for the last 6 years. Not enough time using the Rep bar to make any real comments but it seems well made. Stay away from American Barbell unless you like weak knurling. I have an AB Mammoth bar and rarely use it.

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>>76876122
USA! Hell Yeah.
Nice Gym.

>>76876122
Swiss bar on the rack for pull up grips?

couchfag with nothing but a kettlebell update: reps are up from 10 to 15-20 and I've been increasing the resistance on my elliptical every second day

>>76876405
maybe doesnt fit the gun rack

>>76876417
Hell Yeah! keep it up fren. Don’t stop.

>>76875003
It’s a great bar, you can’t go wrong with it. I have had the ecoat version for 3 years now in a semi-climate controlled garage gym: no rust, very few scratches, spins like new, and the grip, while not as good as some of the other finishes Rogue offers, is solid. Basically zero maintenance.

>>76875003
>>76876144
My cerakote got absolutely ass raped in a moving truck so 2nd for stainless.

>>76876405
>>76876422
Both true

>>76877971
You did wrap it before you moved, right? Cerakote is known for being brittle, so all the bumps in the truck probably wrecked the finish.

My set up is a bar, bench, 100kg in plates, dip/pull up tower

>>76878420
you need more weight

>>76878436
Not yet, I still can't use all of 'em

>>76878484
why?

>>76878512
life hasn't found a way

>>76878512
He doesn't deadlift apparently. NGMI

just starting with buying stuff for home gym, what's a good set of dumbbells to start, I usually use 30-35lbs
are adjustable dumbbells worth it or just a meme? should I just buy one weight and increase reps?

>>76879218
>to start
That mindset will cost you a lot more money in the long run. Don't buy cheap lightweight garbage if you seriously plan on sticking to lifting for the long term. You want a good pair of adjustables, since buying an entire set of fixed is absurd. At minimum 70-80 pounds to start with, ideally able to be expanded to over 100lbs in the future. Ironmasters, rep x peppins, powerblocks are all very good. I have and prefer the former.

>>76879049
or anything

https://repfitness.com/products/rubber-hex-dumbbell-pairs?variant=41067606540446

5-100 will get you there. Adjustable dumbbells are only if you don't have the space. If you want to upgrade from those look at the American Barbell urethane dumbbells. Those are joocy af.

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>>76879251
That costs more than my entire home gym. For less than a third of that you can have the ironmasters that go up to 120lbs and even have 2.5lb increments.

>>76879243
yeah I should have clarified, by "to start", I mean I'm going to be buying more shit over time, but what dumbbells first
I want good dumbbells, willing to spend more for quality, I've heard good things about powerblocks, I'll look at ironmasters
I'm more inclined to get adjustable, but a little hesitant because I have a friend that broke his foot from the lock coming loose and the weight falling on their foot, but they might just be a retard or have a shit brand

>>76879269
>money is an issue

>>76879278
If you have space, buy a 5-50 set and add on later. If not, get powerblock, ironmaster, or peppins fast.

>>76879269
Your home gym sounds very modest.

>>76879663
Hardly. Rogue ohio bar stainless steel, over 500lbs of plates, 120lb set of ironmasters and a metal table for them off amazon, half rack with pullup bar and plate storage off amazon, adjustable rep bench, several horse stall mats, other miscellanous small shit. It's probably above average from what I've seen here, a bit over 3 grand. I get nice stuff, I just don't burn money on dumb shit.

Wasn't trying to be a dick. Nice lil setup you got there. I don't consider a fixed dumbbell set to be dumb shit though if you have the space.

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>>76879218
If you are on a budget,
stick with spinlock 1" dumbbell sets.
Easy to get used everywhere.

If you are starting to build and invest your homegym,
and money is not super strict,
def start with a good powerblock style set.

Some powerblocks are even on sale right now for [US]
people.

I wish I could have bought powerblocks from the very start.
I also don't own property, so keeping my gym setup small but powerful is important to me.

>>76879678
Post a pic, I’m curious now. Is the half-rack from amazon?
>>76879998
>1 inch spinlocks
Even if you’re on a budget, you can find better adjustables on marketplace, etc. 1 inch stuff will only take you so far.

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>>76880357
Total space is 10'x10'. The half rack was $340 from amazon, and for that price I think it is very nice. 3x3, 11 guage steel, 5'8" holes, second uprights for plates, fits in the low ceiling I had to work with. It arrived scuffed up from shipping, but I was expecting that. If you want to hold onto the pullup bar anywhere besides the outside handles you really need gloves.
The only problem is the company who makes it is fucking trash. You better hope to god every single part arrives and you don't have to contact their customer service. I was just missing one of the rubber feet, the easiest and cheapest thing you could ship, and it took them weeks to acknowledge the problem and send a replacement part that was the wrong fucking size. If anthing serious is missing then don't assemble it, send the whole thing back through amazon refund.

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I let myself go after college and find that my main bottleneck to getting my consistency back is that there are zero gyms that are within a decent driving distance of me since I live in a city.

I've began building my home gym with some local deals on adjustable dumbbells etc, but was wondering what you guys recommend for finding cheap plates to load onto the machines / bars that I'm beginning to accumulate. Is fb marketplace the best option if I'm on a budget or is a site like temu worth checking out. Also open to other tips thanks

>>76880619
Yeah, Chinese exporters always do that shit. Most people don’t realize a lot of the popular brands that get shilled here are mostly just middlemen between you and a chink who do a little design work on the side.
>>76881004
>zero gyms
Really, there are no close gyms to you in a city environment? Hard to believe. Are you in some former eastern bloc country or something? My advice would be to try harder to find a gym you can join, to test your consistency. So many people buy home gym equipment and let it rot because they find out it’s hard to motivate themselves to train at home.
>fb marketplace
Yes
>temu
Never ever

>>76881037
I used to train with my step father during COVID so I'm no stranger to getting amped up at home.

I'm looking at Temu... and yeah you're right, I can get better deals on ultra budget machines from Amazon kek total waste of a site unless you get off to child labor

>>76881113
>no stranger to getting amped up at home
Perfect, then. You are already well beyond the kind of person I was thinking you were from your post. Good.
>temu and Amazon
I would try marketplace first before Amazon. You could get top equipment for a good deal rather than relying on Amazon (which is also temu chinkshit most of the time, just with better marketing).

>>76881004
fb, offer up, craigs list

avoid chink sites like amazon

>>76872505
>home gym generals have two good thread runs
>bunch of clone shill threads immediately start popping up
>shitposts intensify across board, wiping away most good threads

>>76872845
York had 4x5kg plates (+dumbbell handles I dont need) for £23, they usually sell 4x5kg for £45 and its about that anywhere else Ive looked so I was happy for that.

>>76883474
this place died for good when all the college kids went back home for the last summer.

>>76883953
Who cares what poor young people's shit home gym setups look like?

>>76883945
fucking hell that's nice, I'm assuming stainless steel?

>>76884130
Yeah. Rep Double Black Diamond bar. Stainless w/ chrome sleeves.

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>>76872510
>>76876122
>>76880619
>>76883942
>>76883945
Brothers.

>>76885619
Folded up c2. 3 strollers not folded up and one in the rack. Looks like you're in the thick of things anon.

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>>76872505
Anyone have recommendations on a decent quality bench,
* can incline/decline,
* leg holders for crunches,
* folds up COMPACTLY,
and is not a Chinese death trap?

retard here:
I saw an ad for the Nordstick. I'm not going to buy it because it looks janky as fuck and the reviews prove that.
Are there any other benches like that you might recommend ?

>>76875003
have the black zinc for 9 years. very good

>>76886579
The general recommendation is freak athlete hyper pro, or shogun nord-ex
>>76886499
I don't think that exists. If you give up foldability for benches that store upright you'll find a lot of options

>>76884616
>rep black diamond
How is the knurl on that?
>>76885619
That’s a good gym, very respectable.
>>76886499
I’ve never seen a folding bench that covers the other requirements you listed. Try Rogue manta ray or one of the similar Rep ones.
>>76886612
>black zinc
How does that feel? I debated about getting one years ago but went with a more corrosion-resistant finish for convenience.

>>76886763
I have a freak athlete hyper pro and think it’s a pretty good buy. None of its functions is a perfect substitute for a dedicated machine, but you can’t beat the versatility and efficiency of storing it upright. They used thinner steel, so it can wobble slightly sometimes, but its floor stability is 100% and I’ve never had a concern using it—think I’m just used to overbuilt Rogue stuff. Shogun is good, too, just fewer things you can do with it. Being able to do 90* back extensions and nordics on the same machine is great. I recommend you get the leg developer attachment if you want to leg extensions and curls. Setup very easy.

How do you go hard without a spotter?

>>76886938
Knurl on Rep Double Black Diamond is my favorite so far (own an Ohio Power Bar crerakote & AB Mammoth Bar). Its grippy but not sharp or painful. Kind of perfect.

>>76887273
For bench press just dont use collars and dump weight if you get stuck. Don't get stuck under a ton of band tension in your home gym because that might kill you if you have the bands on the sleeves outside the plates.

>>76887273
Safeties

>>76875003
Whatever is free on marketplace

>>76885619
How was the navy?

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I have returned and my garage is starting to feel crowded even though it has the same amount of stuff in it and its organized now

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>>76887651

>>76887681
>pussy pad
>safeties super high
this is for ohp right?

>>76887273
>>76887322
>have a good power rack or squat stand
>if power rack, get strap safeties, you’ll never have to worry about lifting hard alone again.

>>76887707
Naw i'm just a pussy

>>76887681
why do you wear the mask?

>>76887771
Because no one cared who I was until I put on the mask

Also just because I have a lot of them

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hit a couple PRs today lads!
220 squat (failed 225) (pictured 190)
145 bench (bench hasnt moved much in a while 2bh)

>>76886242
There's one folded up on the wall, too. They get used daily; C2, maybe weekly.
>>76886938
Thanks
>>76887273
Safeties and/or know how to bail.
>>76887593
Not bad. I was mostly land based and if I did go to the ship, it was temporary and I was part of the air det so it was piss easy. It all depends on your job. I liked it, just didn't work well with long term family plans so I left.
>>76887651
That's how I felt when I installed overhead storage. I didn't gain any extra usable space, things were just better organized.
>>76888510
Congrats, bro!

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Just got this the other day. Intend to use it tomorrow for the first time. I'll keep you boys posted.

home gym sex

>>76889898
These are nice. Has anyone used an adjustable squat box?

>>76889899
Nothing like it, getting a blowjob while doing chest presses is surreal