How much weight needed for NROLFW- PLEASE help.

jaz050465

I've asked this a few times but think people keep missing it. I'm thinking of doing NROLFW if I can do it from home. I want to first see if I can afford the equipment though. What sort of weight will I go up to.
Thanks

kdiamond

At first you won't lift much, later on you'll be squatting and deadlifting (hopefully) up to 100 pounds or so. An Oly barbell with some weight plates would be a good start (5 and 10 pound weight plates).

IronSmasher

My advice would be to join a gym. It would take a long time for a home set up to pay for it's self.

jaz050465

Thanks. It's not money though - its practicality.

julesan902

Depending on how much you weigh right now, and how much your eating, that's going to affect your lifting stats. When I was ~190lbs, I was squatting 195 and deadlifting around the same weight. Now that I am down by 20 more pounds, my lifts are significantly less. Invest in 45lb plates (at least two) and then couple it with 5,10,15, and 25 lb plates if you can afford it. And of course, and oly lifting bar weighing in at 45lbs.

Erienneb

I did NROLFW for a while but got bored and do my own thing now. I'm 5'11'' and have always had good strength and in the six weeks I did it I increased exponentially to the point where if I was deadlifting dumbbels it was awkward because I needed 50lbs in each hand.

Also from a practicality standpoint it is not a program that is condusive to home work outs, which is part of why I stopped. The equipment needed was not something I had access to at my smaller work gym.

flyingwrite

I'm doing NROLFW from home. I have a cheapy weight bench that was probably 20 bucks 30 years ago. I found a squat rack on Craig's List for cheap. I'm finishing Stage 1 and I'm squatting 73#. You can totally do it. And it's so worthwhile. The program takes 20-30 minutes at the beginning and I just couldn't justify joining a gym and driving that far out of my way for 20 minutes. Good luck!

zombilishious

Assume you will be lifting >100lbs regularly...and the smaller you get, the more you should be lifting....A gym is the most practical for a lot of reasons....at a minimum, you need a squat rack, barbell, plates, incline bench and dumbbells that go from 5-50lbs...you can find ways to work around what you don't have by searching the forums and google...

meshashesha2012

you'd need a squat rack, olympic barbell, weight plates (45, 25, 10, 5, 2.5 and 1.25 pounds would be good) and collars to go on that barbell. also a bench to do step ups and bench presses on. dumbbells anywhere from 5-50 pounds ... personally i think it's easier to do in a gym

with nrol4w you are supposed to increase your weight every workout once you're able to do all the reps, so in theory you should be quickly progressing through weights.

so there's is no answer to how much weight you will go up to because it's going to depend on your strength levels when you start and how you progress. you might end up being able to deadlift 250 pounds or it might be 150 pounds. there is no set number since it's a STRENGTH training program and strength is an individual thing

vim_n_vigor

My advice would be to join a gym. It would take a long time for a home set up to pay for it's self.

I got a pretty good home set up that will go well beyond what I can do for a long time for ~$200. The convenience factor alone is paying for the home set up!

I have a bunch of plates of varying weights from 5-45 pounds, an incline bench with the leg weights and a stability ball. The only thing I would still want to add is a squat rack since that is what keeps me from going up in weight....

ETA - my barbells are like mini-barbell, so I can add whichever plates I want to them to change the weight.

CallMeCupcakeDammit

I'm doing it from home with only dumbbells, a step and a stability ball. I search youtube for substitutions for moves that need an incline bench, because using the ball for that is really awkward. I'm only up to 20 lbs so far, but I'll order extra plates as I go along.

jaz050465

Thank you so much everyone. A lot to think about.

IronSmasher

Have you read the book?

The only gym I've been to near you is Millennium, I'm pretty sure it had everything you need and is 15-20 mins from you, so I can't see that being impractical.

jaz050465

Need to get back from work ASAP as have dog needing medication. Have joined soooooo many gyms before Including millenium and then not gone as just don't want to travel our again after getting back from work and walking dogs. Prefer to workout at home

Not read the book yet banged to know first a bit more about it.

nursekern

Thank you for this post! I am also going to be doing NROLFW from home and needed to make a list I have handweights from 2-10 pounds so far, so this post helps me immensely!