r/homegym

Recommendations welcome! And I acknowledge the need to upgrade my free weights, I’ve mostly always been an Assault-Bike kind of guy

Before and after of my first home gym. New Titan mft machine and some second hand treadmills. Still got finishing touches to go.

Pretty simple to make for overloading

Let me know of any flooring recommendations, don’t want to do stall matts - thinking more toward either rogue/eleiko tiles or plae achieve.

I made this from maple to make setting up deadlifts easier. Slight V shape to the top that keeps the bar centered.

My set up how sick

Long time lurker, first time poster, thanks for the inspiration from everybody’s posts! Only have this space to build my gym, a single car garage. Tried to make it as functional as possible with just free weights and kettlebells with some cardio machines. It’s not much, but does the job in saving my old arse going to a commercial gym, which is the point!!

I am still setting everything up but so far I am happy with my stuff.

I also have 220kg of plates and non branded Eisenlinks dumbbells 2x65kg.

I need to keep a small footprint as this is my office and I don’t have the space as some of you guys that are living in houses (I am in an apartment)

For the base I went with 15mm rubber mats and on top is a 21mm high quality beech plywood.

This is mostly to distribute the load, even tho the building is concrete building with 25cm concrete floors, it also helps with the noise.

This is just some of the equipment, I am also happy with the bench. It’s solid as a rock but it’s around 60kg heavy.

I can’t share any links, this all ordered from China directly from a factory (besides the dumbbells, barbell, and attachments are all from Europe).

Been working out for three years now.

I present to you the Giant BD3X Axis trainer with Rep Lat pulldown/low row combo. The lat pulldown/low row was customized to fit by sliding the top crossmember back 2 holes and notched to accept the new brackets since the BD3X has 20” crossmebers compared to the original 16” ones that were on my previous REP rack. I also flip flopped the trolleys inside out so when I squat off the front posts, the weights don’t hit the trolley arms.

The BD3X Axis rack is a killer set up. NoFate247 did a great review on it and I had to pull the trigger. The guys from Giant Lifting were absolutely TOP NOTCH! I was in the process of ordering the 80” rack and sold out while I was checking out. Called the team and dealt with Travis. Told me they were sold out and called me an hour later and said they miscounted and still had one combo left. I snagged it. The owner of Giant Lifting, Hunter, even threw in a blue Hybrid bar for FREE! These dudes need more recognition!

Pretty excited to get some workouts in on this new set up!

Always wanted to make the garage work for both the bike and training without having to compromise either one. Took a bit of time to figure out the layout but finally got it where I wanted.

I debated far too long on whether these would help me out, wish I hadn’t. For context, I’m 53 yrs and not moving massive weights around. That said, these little gems have made getting dumbbells in position so much easier and safer. I can lift heavier without throwing out my shoulder again.

I didn’t want to pay $50 so I found these on Amazon https://a.co/d/0dy50ajb for $18.

Safe lifting, y’all!

Upgraded to a T-2 rack.

Rogue fm6 twin stack (100")

Peloton tread and bike

3-45lb dumbbells

American floor mats 1/2"

Special feature wifes work corner

-Power rack: Eonfit e3 with smith machine (its great for the price specially for the functional trainer, will upgrade to a 3x3 all in one trainer in a year maybe)

-Adjustable Bench: Eonfit (came as a bundle with the rack, not great but not bad either)

-Dumbbells: mx55 (goes from 10-55lbs with 5lbs increments)

-Leg curl/leg extension: Gearforfit Universal bench leg extension/leg curl. (Surpassed my expectations, great option for small spaces and budget, great for leg extensions and leg curls)

-Stationary Bike

-Old treadmill that i got from marketplace for $50

All the equipment except for the treadmill is in small room in the basement, still i can workout comfortably. The only way to make it better is a better power rack, smith machine with its own uprights (this eonfit doesn’t have that), weight stacks, and accessories, barbell and plates holder on the walls.

With the default setup, you could only pull it pretty much straight down or else the cable (silver in this example) would rub against the metal 3x3.

I bought and disassembled 2 pulleys and DIY'd it so now I can pull it straight down or at an angle (black cable that goes around the lower wheel).

I've had the damn thing for years and only figured this out now.

Edit: You need 2 of the 3.45in wheels, or else there won't be enough room https://a.co/d/01gTxuK5

I replaced the top wheel with one of these, then fixed the second wheel and housing to the beam. There is a hole in the perfect spot on the bram that lines it up.

More pictures https://imgur.com/a/Avc5X7Z

Finally made it this far.