Workout: What did you do today?

[jimmy jazz]

So much room in there. That is great. Nice lighting and nice place to train.

If you got:

Squat stands (can get them cheap second hand)
Resistance bands
Pull up bar

You'd be sorted for basically everything. Obviously a gym is better in the sense that you have all the equipment but training alone has so many pros.

Also pleased to see you have a full length mirror in there for admiring your physique 😎

[Guybrush]

So much room in there. That is great. Nice lighting and nice place to train.

If you got:

Squat stands (can get them cheap second hand)
Resistance bands
Pull up bar

You'd be sorted for basically everything. Obviously a gym is better in the sense that you have all the equipment but training alone has so many pros.

Also pleased to see you have a full length mirror in there for admiring your physique 😎

I have one of those pull-up bars you can fit in a door frame and it seems to work, at least for the purpose of doing pullups.

I think my wife has a resistance band 😄 guess we might get some more.

The mirror is from another part of the house where it took up too much space. But of course it's important to find any little way to keep up motivation and watching the beef grow might help with that 👍

[jadis]

I am a newb, but did receive some instructions on proper way to squat some years back. I'm gonna check out some YouTube vids on proper form in the coming days.

Spent a little time in our gym today doing situps, pushups, squats, bicep curls probably and whatever you call it when you're on a bench and lift manuals straight up.

Finally using our gym, so will try to do something there every day, even if it's just 10 minutes.

It's not pretty and could def use some paint or refurbishing in general, but this is what our cheap home gym looks like.



Importantly, and something you don't see in the pic, it has a TV so I can watch Seinfeld while exercising.

Otherwise, it's got some second hand stuff in it. The treadmill was too heavy and complicated to get out, so was left there by the previous owners.

Edit:

Btw, thought I might try out these 3 (as well as other stuff):

I like the pendlay row! First time I hear about it tbh. Will try today 

[jimmy jazz]

I have one of those pull-up bars you can fit in a door frame and it seems to work, at least for the purpose of doing pullups.

I think my wife has a resistance band 😄 guess we might get some more.

The mirror is from another part of the house where it took up too much space. But of course it's important to find any little way to keep up motivation and watching the beef grow might help with that 👍

The door pullup bars are fine but you can only really do underhand grip pullups on them (also known as chin ups). To do overhand you'll need a wider grip. I don't have a pullup bar but I do them using my squat stand with a barbell on top. It's not the normal way but it works.



(Obviously need to tuck my legs up so I'm lifting my whole body)

The resistance bands you can use to assist you with pullups so whatever level you are at you can do them. And also for a load of other stuff. They are such a good tool.

Keep posting your progress mate 

[jimmy jazz]

Wanted to post this. This is a great, entertaining video that will help anyone. 10 things to avoid. Greg is the funniest fitness guy on YouTube.

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[jadis]

Wanted to post this. This is a great, entertaining video that will help anyone. 10 things to avoid. Greg is the funniest fitness guy on YouTube.

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I like this!

[jadis]

I hate cardio lol

The stomach exercises I do are mostly cable crunches and even there I put on way more weight than I can lift through the abs so it's more of a back exercise that also works the abs

[jadis]

This is great @DJChameleon

[DJChameleon]

This is great @DJChameleon

Good one!

[FETCHER.]

I trained legs today at the gym. My new coach has me doing some sort of cardio before I do any weights, I guess it is to keep my heart rate higher while I'm doing the weights? On any of my old plans I never used to get so sweaty/tired and the only difference I can think of is that I'm doing a decent amount of cardio before I lift anything.

[DJChameleon]

I trained legs today at the gym. My new coach has me doing some sort of cardio before I do any weights, I guess it is to keep my heart rate higher while I'm doing the weights? On any of my old plans I never used to get so sweaty/tired and the only difference I can think of is that I'm doing a decent amount of cardio before I lift anything.

How much cardio did you do? Like 10 mins. I see some gym bros doing it and my old trainer used to make me to it too. Cardio to get your heart rate up then doing the circuit.

If you do more than 10 mins worth of cardio it tires you out and you end up lifting less than you would without doing cardio.

[jimmy jazz]

You can always do cardio after you lift.

[jadis]

I trained legs today at the gym. My new coach has me doing some sort of cardio before I do any weights, I guess it is to keep my heart rate higher while I'm doing the weights? On any of my old plans I never used to get so sweaty/tired and the only difference I can think of is that I'm doing a decent amount of cardio before I lift anything.

Could it be just a warm-up? Based on what several trainers have told me over the years, it makes more sense to do weights first, then cardio. Your metabolism skyrockets after weights and then cardio would have a much greater effect. 

[Guybrush]

Didn't like the bench much as I figured it was for exercising abs/back and not for bench presses, so threw that out and bought a new (well, second hand but unused) from someone who lives right by here. The new one comes with a barbell rack for bench presses and was quite a bit more fancy.

Then I picked up a straight barbell from a sports store as the ez/curl thing we had was small for the rack and anyways seems a little less suited for the squats and bench presses.

So I got the gear buying part of fitness pretty much down and it's a lot of fun.

[jimmy jazz]

Didn't like the bench much as I figured it was for exercising abs/back and not for bench presses, so threw that out and bought a new (well, second hand but unused) from someone who lives right be here. The new one comes with a barbell rack for bench presses and was quite a bit more fancy.

Then I picked up a straight barbell from a sports store as the ez/curl thing we had was small for the rack and anyways seems a little less suited for the squats and bench presses.

So I got the gear buying part of fitness pretty much down and it's a lot of fun.

You will outgrow this eventually but even if you're lifting five times a week you will be cool for a year or so.

If you look to upgrade or want something better, I'd recommend something like the following:



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Obviously use the squat stands for your benching as well as squatting. Mine have a weight capacity of 300kg and my bench is 250kg so I'm well within those limits even with myself included in the bench. Basically all you need in a bench if you're training at home is something you can set to incline and with a good weight capacity, plus separate stands as ones that are part of the bench don't tend to have much capacity, also you can't move them around to suit your grip.