Getting started in weightlifting means that you will probably need some weight lifting equipment. Hopefully you have been looking around for this but I will try to give you a good idea of the equipment that you will need.

First of all there are two kinds of equipment for weight training. There are weights and bars and there is equipment that will help you to use those weights and bars.

Weight training equipment – Weights and Bars

In looking for weights and bars it is a good idea to have weights that will work on short bars (like for one armed curls) as well as on longer bars (for two armed curls or bench press). I have always tried to have a variety of weights from 2.5 pounds to 10 pounds and I have bought metal weights instead of those crappy plastic ones as they take a lot less space. Read the rest of this entry »

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Weight training equipment is something that many home users need to know about when trying to start soe kind of fitness routine. I will try to analyze what kinds of equipment you need based on your body muscle groups.

First of all there are two kinds of equipment that you will need to know about. The first weight training equipment is weights and the second is the actual apparatus which would be benches and stuff.

Weight Training Equipment – Apparatus

I think that most people will start weight training with some kind of a bench. At the very simplest a bench will be a flat bench that will allow you to do flyes, sit to do dumbell military press, a place to put your legs on to do crunches, and a stable piece of equipment to do your tricep pushups. Once you decide that you want to get a bit more advanced you can get a bench that will have a movable back so that you can do incline bench, this addition is the only advantage though to getting an incline bench so do not drool over the incline instead of having a nice stable bench. Read the rest of this entry »