Date: 7/14/2021
🤑Best Sale: It’s Prime Day. Grab some non-gym equipment like a cheap tv for your gym. Their Home Gym Essentials list is so bad.
🥇Top Release: 5 Bar Vertical Storage from Kabuki.
📈#1 Insight: 80% spent over $1k to start their home gym. That’s up 10% from 2019.
📖Last Edition: (trap) Bar is Open ✅
Sales & Equipment Updates
- KPULLEY GO STARTER SYSTEM & KBOX4 Active Starter SYSTEM are available from Rogue
- Large REP Sandbags are on sale.
- Weight Stack Pin for $19.99 is released from Bells of Steel.
- Kabuki launches 5 Bar Vertical Storage specifically designed to store specialty barbells.
- REP Open Trap Bar is still available to order.
- Cap Barbell 3 Tier Dumbbell Rack is 36% off as a Prime Deal.
Which Expensive Bar Turned into this?
Hate to do this, but you’ll have to click to see.
Your friend wants to build a home gym. What advice are you giving them?
Some of the top feedback from the Instagram post include:
zen_bro
Buy some bands, get a few kettle bells, subscribe to a good home workout program, and see if you can commit to exercising at home for 90 days. If so, add equipment only if you can stick to it every 60 days thereafter.
the.iron.stoic
It’s YOUR gym. It will be individual to your needs and the limitations of the space. In general, I would suggest building as you go, and enjoying the process as much as your workouts
thenowhinecellar
First ask what their goals are and how they like or want to train, than help them find a realistic way to get there.
If they are into powerlifting it’s quite simple. Get some stall mats a rack, bench and 300-600 lbs of plates to start than eventually gets dbs followed by a lat pull with low row and a leg ext/curl. Once you have all that get every specialty bar that you desire and keep that thing growing.
If your a bodybuilder or into Olympic lifts the answer would be much different and I’m not the guy to ask lol.
sierrawhiskeyfitness
Start with flooring before buying equipment. Figure out what you want (i.e. stall mats) and have that be your first purchase. It’s a lot easier to install that first instead of after you acquire equipment. Also, figure out what your budget is get what you NEED first before extra gear.
More to Check Out
- Low Ceiling Height Home Gym Tips via the Chicken.
- Rogue Monster vs. REP FB-5000 Bench From Gluck’s Gym
- Cerberus Power Bar – All Bark or All Bite (Basement Brandon)
- Looking for a new Whoop team to join? Open the app and use the code COMM-609CAC to join the Garage Gym Group. Get a free WHOOP 4.0 and one month free when you join with this link.
Best Basement Ever
This setup comes from @hat_city_iron.
True/False Data Points vs. 2019
- (+14%) The phrase “Buy Once, Cry Once,” referencing buying high-quality items upfront, was up the most.
- (+13%) More believe that saving
- (+10%) We see more spend more than $1k to begin their home gym. COVID and higher equipment prices likely have something to do with that.
- (-24%) Less save money by owning a home gym.
- (-25%) Less are sacrificing parking than back in 2019. Moves to basements, having dedicated rooms, and more space-saving options available now are all likely reasons.
- (-12%) There weren’t too many, to begin with, but even fewer are buying all of their equipment from 1 spot.
Friday’s Edition
- The REP Open Trap Bar is arguably the most anticipated product of 2022. It was dropped on Thursday.
- The used marketplace seems pretty dead right now.
- The primary differences between the REP and Titan SSB’s include: 1) Titan’s is manufactured in the USA while REP’s is an import.2) REP includes knurled handles vs. “rubber honeycomb” for Titan. 3) REP includes a 30-degree camber vs. Titan’s 20-degree camber. This is something that will definitely need to be tested to see which is optimal. 4) REP’s cost is currently $30 higher, but Titan has revealed that $299 is just the intro price.
- Bells of Steel is adding 3×3 racks.A preview is in this teaser.
- Made in USA Equilizer Plates are coming from REP.
- Use codeGGE5 to save 5% on the Northland Open Trap Bar
