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n00bluck
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So I've searched and read a lot and some of this ground has been covered but I'd still appreciate a reality check.
Situation:
I'm tired of my regular gym for a bunch of reasons and PTC Canberra is too far away (no car). I live opposite a long vacant office building so I'm thinking of making a lowball offer to lease a bit of space there and put in a basic home gym.
I'll finish off a CIII/IV in fitness in a few weeks and I might do some training but it would be very much as a hobby.
Gear:
I've put together a shopping list based on what I usually use around the gym:
I've left out some things for cost: dumbbell set, treadmill and rower. But I might get an incline bench and squat stands if I start doing any small group training or leasing to someone who is.
RE bumpers: I've trained with ironedge standard (economy) bumpers at a powerlifting/crossfit gym and the steel insert broke out of almost every single one so I'm leaning towards premium style plates with the much larger insert. Am I being too precious about that given I won't be using mine as much?
RE barbells: I'm not buying an eleiko, I'm thinking around the $300 mark for something like an Ironedge/againfaster/etc bar. I figure that because I don't do rackpulls and will have bumpers/platform that this should be fine?
Overall thoughts? Things I've missed? Things I don't actually need?
Suppliers:
I've priced up several potential suppliers with sticker prices ranging from around $3k to around $5.5k (given the spend I'd haggle), most to least expensive:
Littlebloke, gymdirect, sams fitness and southside fitness didn't have enough of the list to bother looking at in detail.
Ironedge probably has a slight quality advantage across everything but after that it's basically all coming from the same place at basically the same quality.
The bloke who runs RawFitness seems like a really nice guy but he won't have stock until end Feb beginning March so I'm leaning towards UFS which is about $500 more (basically all in bumper price difference).
Are UFS any good or should I be looking at someone else?
Situation:
I'm tired of my regular gym for a bunch of reasons and PTC Canberra is too far away (no car). I live opposite a long vacant office building so I'm thinking of making a lowball offer to lease a bit of space there and put in a basic home gym.
I'll finish off a CIII/IV in fitness in a few weeks and I might do some training but it would be very much as a hobby.
Gear:
I've put together a shopping list based on what I usually use around the gym:
- Assualt/Half Rack
- Flat bench
- 2x1.25kg plate
- 2x2.5kg plate
- 2x5kg plate
- 2-4x10kg bumper
- 6-10x20kg bumper
- 1-2 barbells + lockjaw collars
- set of power bands
- 3-4 kettlebells in the 8-20kg area
- spin bike
- DIY platform (4m2 rubber, 2m2 plywood)
- DIY toaster rack, probably 2
- DIY prowler
I've left out some things for cost: dumbbell set, treadmill and rower. But I might get an incline bench and squat stands if I start doing any small group training or leasing to someone who is.
RE bumpers: I've trained with ironedge standard (economy) bumpers at a powerlifting/crossfit gym and the steel insert broke out of almost every single one so I'm leaning towards premium style plates with the much larger insert. Am I being too precious about that given I won't be using mine as much?
RE barbells: I'm not buying an eleiko, I'm thinking around the $300 mark for something like an Ironedge/againfaster/etc bar. I figure that because I don't do rackpulls and will have bumpers/platform that this should be fine?
Overall thoughts? Things I've missed? Things I don't actually need?
Suppliers:
I've priced up several potential suppliers with sticker prices ranging from around $3k to around $5.5k (given the spend I'd haggle), most to least expensive:
- Ironedge
- Gym and Fitness
- Aussie Strength
- Cyberfit
- Urban Fitness Supplies
- Raw Fitness
Littlebloke, gymdirect, sams fitness and southside fitness didn't have enough of the list to bother looking at in detail.
Ironedge probably has a slight quality advantage across everything but after that it's basically all coming from the same place at basically the same quality.
The bloke who runs RawFitness seems like a really nice guy but he won't have stock until end Feb beginning March so I'm leaning towards UFS which is about $500 more (basically all in bumper price difference).
Are UFS any good or should I be looking at someone else?
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