Home Gym, opinions?

What do you guys think of this home gym, i've seen it on display and it doesn't look to bad. Something beginners up to the more average BB'rs could use.


Home Gym

One more...

or this one

the leg extension-leg curl section looks like it would be uncomfortable at higher weights. needs more padding...

Would anyone like to post some links to some home gyms that they find very effective?

I didn't go with a home gym myself. I just went with a squat rack and lat attachment with a bench.

I know a bit about this subject since I've built my own commercial facility. Let me say that once you use commercial equipment, all of that pro-sumer stuff feels like garbage.... loose joints, cheap padding, lightweight, lowgrade steel.

You can do more with a few utility benches and a couple racks of dumbells than you can imagine. So the first place to spend your money is on a nice set of pro-style dumbells in 5-pound increments (Ivanko makes the best). Get yourself a flat-incline bench and voila, you can train every upperbody muscle group (and even do some leg exercises as well).

My set goes up to 130's and I paid about $2,200 new for mine. The Ivanko's come from San Pedro, so depending on where you live, you may get killed on shipping (~$800). But if you can find equipment at auctions, you'll score huge. Generally, auctioned commercial equipment sells for $.30 on the $1 or less.

Any questions, just ask...

Well I trained at home for a year once. It is hard to stay motivated though. If this is your route, try and get something with lots of free weights and a power rack. These fancy pec decks and leg extension are useless in my opinion.

There are some pretty good ones on sale at Copeland's if you have one near you. Check out Sears too, though I must warn - the quality looked fairly shitty on some particular setups at Sears.

bowflex is all u need, makes u huge, and cut same time, can eat what ever u want, 3 work outs a week for 30 min, and u will look like jay cutler

I like #2............

I'm not a big fan of either, I never used much other than free weights even when I had a gym membership, my home gym has a heavy duty olympic bench, lat attachment, heavy leg extension, built in squat rack with safety pegs, very nice since I don't have anyone to spot me, and I do the 20 rep squat routine a lot. I got a steal on it, was the only one left, a floor model at Sport Authority, they couldn't find the price on it so they let me have it for $67, saw it in an online cataloge for $500.

And I also have one of the power towers, I think what it is called, a chin up, pull up, tricep dip, hanging leg raise station.

If your room is limited then i would go with Mega Smith System.
Maybe some free weights and a bench or 2.


This is my home gym.


http://mikeyjo.com/MarksGym.htm

i train at gym too,and i bought this currently.....