Can I lift at home ? supplies!!!

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I wanna do some weight training at home and I need to know the basics on what supplies I need. There's not much room to work with so just the basic and few essentials please . Thanks!!!

A nice bench with a squat rack (and knee extension/hamstring curl) would be a good start with an Olympic bar and some plates. Hand helds are a good way to start and you can work all muscles with them. They usually sell for around $1 a pound, so you buy and add as needed. An exercise mat to place under your bench and main sweat areas to protect your floor.


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I started with a few hand held weights and a treadmill 20 years ago when I lived in an apartment. Now that I am in a house with a generous basement, I have slowly added things as I could afford and needed them. I tried a gym, but the monthly membership was too much. In fact, even after buying 2 benches, the Olympic bar and plates, exercise bikes - I am way ahead at this point compared to what I would have been paying in gym memberships. Plus, I save on gas by not having to drive to and from my workouts. Home gym'in it since 1995.

Basically all I have are Resistance Bands and a small flat bench and a Large Balance Ball. Training can be done at home with some creativity.

I lift at home in our spare bedroom which has 3 big shevels and a desk in it along with my wine fridge...space is limited for me.

I have a bench and my husband and son built me a squat rack for safety.

I started with 1 barbell and about 100lbs in weights.

I have since gotten 2 more bars (1 standard and 1 curl) for my birthday and I have a few extra plates from my husbands set and I was given some for Christmas.

IMHO there is no point in investing in dumbells if you are going to be lifting...invest in a standard or olympic bar and a bench with a few plates and buy as needed looking at craigs list etc...

For you:

+ One 20-32 lb kettlebell
+ A 20 lb weighted vest
+ A chinup bar that fits in the doorframe + some resistance bands (to help you do them)
+And a short EZ bar and weights once you need to level up.

This is a Non-Gym set up (what it seems like you need/want). Here is a short article on how it differs from the traditional home gym: http://www.withoutagym.net/gyms/

I am working on building my home gym. I got a treadmill last fall. I recently purchased weights from the used sorting good store. I got a bar and some dumbell bells that use standard weights (not Olympic). Next I will be getting an adjustable bench and a power rack. Some day I will grow out of standard weights and need to upgrade to Olmpic, but I have a ways to go. If you do buy a standard bar, make sure that it is long enough for a rack if you choose to get one. From the shopping around I did, standard bars come in all sorts of lengths and I read reviews that some are too short for racks.

A rack doesn't have to take a massive amount of room.

As well as my full 'power cage' (DIY effort) I've got one of these:

If you get one without the catchers it's even less space. But a squat rack like this means offers of working muscles with a fair bit more weight. Both because you can use barbells and because you can use them SAFELY - because it's got the catchers to make sure you don't crush yourself if you drop it.

While it's not small, if put in a corner there's actually only one protruding bit.

If you want to go really 'light', then reistance bands can offers loads of force to fight against, but they work a bit different to weights because the resistance gets harder as you stretch them. In some cases this is good, others less so.
You can do reasonably heavy squats with them, but I'd think you'd need to play about a bit to get it working nicely.

If you do go down the 'real weights' route, definitely look second hand. I got my rack above for either £60 or £75, I forget - they do lighter versions as well, but I wanted the 250kg capable one. A basic bar bell setup can be got for not much second hand.
I got a fairly heavy duty incline/decline bench secondhand for £50, but you can get them for a fair bit less.

I only use the bench for bench press and decline weighted situps (could do normal situps with more weight instead.)

Get yourself a set of Bowflex Selectech weights with the stand. They go from 2.5-52.5 and work great. Also grab yourself a bench that inclines, declines and goes flat. Lastly pick up an olympic weight set with the barbell and 300 pounds of weights. I picked up the bench and the weight set from Sports Authority recently. They had a 20% off fitness coupon, I got outta there for $280 for a 300 pound Marcy Olympic weight set and a bench with full decline, incline, and flat bench capability. And the rack for the bar can be used for a squat rack as well.

I'm going to guess the OP (leahoves2run) may not be in need of a bench and an Olympic weight set of 300 pounds. That's a good price you got and I think when I bought mine a few years ago I got everything on sale as well which - compared to a gym membership - has worked out really well and I'm glad I got it.

Sounds like the OP may be more focused on toning up with lighter handheld weights in an apartment with space issues is what she was focusing in on. You can do a lot with handhelds that have plates you can change to the point you have 35, 40, 45, 50 pounds on each dumbell.

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IMHO, pick your workout, then pick your supplies. Everything suggested will work, but may not be needed if you aren't doing a routine that uses them.

For example, if you do this: http://scoobysworkshop.com/womens-beginning-dumbbell-workout/ you'll only need some dumbells. A cheap adjustable set will get you started.

If you want to do Stronglifts, then you need barbell equipment.

I would suggest using some bands, stretch tubes, dumbbells, kettlebell, and maybe a thigh toner which could be used for your thighs and upper body (chest). This all should fit nicely in a laundry basket. The dumbbells I would buy are changeable. All this equipment combined would cost 100 or less. Just a thought. I live in a small apartment with a family of four and so room is priceless for me as well. Don't need a lot of things. Might buy a pad if you have hard floors.

I'm putting together a small home gym now.

I considered going the full olympic weight set/bench and squat rack and all kinds of stuff as I had the room.

But ultimately I decided on the following:
1 - set of Bowflex Selecttech adjustable dumbbells 552 $299.
1- Rogue Flat utility bench (Presses and other upper body stuff) $175
1 - Plyometric jump box (weighted lunges, etc.) $80
1- Power Tower (allow you to do dips, pull ups, and leg lifts) $125

Total: $679.

With this I can hit every muscle group and do a ton of Crossfit work outs.
Eventually I'm going to finish the flooring in my gym space with some rubber stall mats and may consider other pieces but I think this is going to last me a while. I like the minimalist design to it.

Or you could do body weight exercises and not really need anything expect maybe a pull up bar.

My thoughts exactly! You already own all the equipment you'll ever need, your own body.

So, how do you do the equivalent of more than body weight squats?