Weight Training Equipment

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.

As you can see in the picture above in this post you can really get elaborate and the weight bench can become your most important piece of weight training equipment with leg extension and curl attachments

Another great piece of equipment is a squat rack. One of the real problems with working out at home is that you do not have access to any equipment to do leg work and doing squats will make a big difference to getting bigger and stronger and revving up your metabolism. A squat rack just like a bench is most importantly function over form and you will want this piece of equipment that sits holding a lot of weight to be strong and stable.

Weight lifting bars are next, these are going to go hand in hand with your weights so make sure that you have one long bar to do curls, squats, pullups and anything else where you need a balanced bar held with your shoulders or both hands.

Weight Training Equipment – Weights

Now that you have all of your equipment you will need weight to put on these bars as well as some dumbells. At home I have about 100 pounds of various weights 10, 5, 2.5 weight plates but I also have another very important type of short bars and that is two short bars where I can just put the weights on and then screw on the ends so that the weight does not roll off, this is very important to make sure that I can change the weight on the bar very quickly.

Another new way to get weights is the dumbells with the weight dial. To use these new weights you just push in a button and turn a dial at the end to get your weight adjusted to anywhere from 10 to 50 pounds and then simply pick up the bar with the correct weights on it.

Finally I also have four pairs of dumbells that are covered in rubber. The weights are 10, 15, 20, and 25 pound pairs of dumbells and are nice and easy to just pick up for all of those exercises that you need to do and do not want to be changing out weight on the barbells. Generally for most exercises I will start running up through the dumbells until I become to strong for them and then setup the other dumbells. This works very well although I could probably use a pair of 30 and 40 pound dumbells to quicken things up.

Weight Training Equipment – Simplifying

I am pretty happy with my current equipment although having a gym at work has made my home equipment gather dust lately. I thin that if you are setting up a home gym for yourself you have two choices. You can get some kind of Bowflex or Universal all in one system or go old school like I have and just get lots of weights and the equipment such as squat racks and bench and anything else that you need.

One of the big arguments between buying equipment and joining a gym is the cost. If you ship around for weight training equipment you will find that you can get it used fairly cheap and if you are able to keep your motivation at home with some good goals then it will be the fastest and easiest workouts that you can have. Motivation is the key though and many people will not be able to keep up a scheduile at home nad will instead need to work out at a gym around other people.

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