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Andrew1
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Hey guys,
I'm new to the forum and somewhat new to lifting. I have been on and off for the last 3 years with my longest continuous regime lasting about 8 months.
I've recently got an itching again, and I want to get some equipment for home rather than join a gym as I feel this will help keep me lifting more regularly and for a longer period of time as the convenience is there. I know most of you will probably think this is silly, especially once I full explain my situation but hopefully you can still give me some good advice.
I'm at Uni 5 days a week and my weekends involve me working a part time job on saturday and studying on sunday. I dont have a car available to me much of the week (Im 19 and I can't afford it). Hence, I either train at my local gym (which has some pretty lousy opening times) or I get some equipment for home. I'm opting for the latter, however this raises some issues aswell.
There is nowhere in my house to put any equipment apart from my room, we have a one car garage but dad stores his car there so there is no chance for me to get a power rack. Ontop of this, my ceiling is exceptionally low (just over 2m) so I can't even fit in a halfrack as most are around 210+ cm tall.
My plan is to buy some equipment of gymdirect.com.au, and i was hoping you could point me in the direction of some more adequete products or just confirm what I think is a reasonable selection. I will try to justify my choices in each case, but I'm sure if you consider saving on space, costs while maximising exercise range you will get the picture.
Equipment:
Olympic Dumbbell Handles (Pair of Olympic Dumbbell Handle)
5ft Olympic Barbell (150cm (5ft) Olympic Barbell (700lbs)
Olympic EZ Curl Bar (Olympic Ezy Curl Bar Bonus spring collar)
About 80kg of Rubber Coated (Olympic Size Rubber Coated)
Bench w/ leg attachments and possibly a preacher attachment (TR74B FID (Flat Incline Decline Bench with Leg Curl Extension and Preacher curl)
Essentially, I want a set of dumbbells to use for all my presses due to safety in the absence of a power rack and safeties. But i figured if im going to be getting a barbell for deadlifts and the like, then I may as well reduce the number of plates needed and opting for olympic size in both cases as I dont fancy fiddling with screw collars when spring collars are so much easier.
In regards to the bench, would this be suitable and how is the build quality and comfort? I want the leg adapter because I'll only be able to do light BB squats and dumbbell squats never worked too well for me. And I have always liked preacher curls too.
Im not convinced on getting the EZ Curl, but I really do like using them compared to a straight BB as it's more erganomic and comfortable on the wrists, and if i have a preacher attachement, why not right?
I also want to try keep this purchase to below $800
Thanks for your help,
Andrew
I'm new to the forum and somewhat new to lifting. I have been on and off for the last 3 years with my longest continuous regime lasting about 8 months.
I've recently got an itching again, and I want to get some equipment for home rather than join a gym as I feel this will help keep me lifting more regularly and for a longer period of time as the convenience is there. I know most of you will probably think this is silly, especially once I full explain my situation but hopefully you can still give me some good advice.
I'm at Uni 5 days a week and my weekends involve me working a part time job on saturday and studying on sunday. I dont have a car available to me much of the week (Im 19 and I can't afford it). Hence, I either train at my local gym (which has some pretty lousy opening times) or I get some equipment for home. I'm opting for the latter, however this raises some issues aswell.
There is nowhere in my house to put any equipment apart from my room, we have a one car garage but dad stores his car there so there is no chance for me to get a power rack. Ontop of this, my ceiling is exceptionally low (just over 2m) so I can't even fit in a halfrack as most are around 210+ cm tall.
My plan is to buy some equipment of gymdirect.com.au, and i was hoping you could point me in the direction of some more adequete products or just confirm what I think is a reasonable selection. I will try to justify my choices in each case, but I'm sure if you consider saving on space, costs while maximising exercise range you will get the picture.
Equipment:
Olympic Dumbbell Handles (Pair of Olympic Dumbbell Handle)
5ft Olympic Barbell (150cm (5ft) Olympic Barbell (700lbs)
Olympic EZ Curl Bar (Olympic Ezy Curl Bar Bonus spring collar)
About 80kg of Rubber Coated (Olympic Size Rubber Coated)
Bench w/ leg attachments and possibly a preacher attachment (TR74B FID (Flat Incline Decline Bench with Leg Curl Extension and Preacher curl)
Essentially, I want a set of dumbbells to use for all my presses due to safety in the absence of a power rack and safeties. But i figured if im going to be getting a barbell for deadlifts and the like, then I may as well reduce the number of plates needed and opting for olympic size in both cases as I dont fancy fiddling with screw collars when spring collars are so much easier.
In regards to the bench, would this be suitable and how is the build quality and comfort? I want the leg adapter because I'll only be able to do light BB squats and dumbbell squats never worked too well for me. And I have always liked preacher curls too.
Im not convinced on getting the EZ Curl, but I really do like using them compared to a straight BB as it's more erganomic and comfortable on the wrists, and if i have a preacher attachement, why not right?
I also want to try keep this purchase to below $800
Thanks for your help,
Andrew